Mountain life in Algeria . CHAPTER to deserve this ? Wed/wsi/ay, May 5, to Thursday, 3fay 20. HE abnormal amount of wet delighted theKabyles, for they knew it meant heavycrops ; and they had suffered from droughtyseasons, so that the olive harvest of theprevious autumn had been an entire it was most annoying to had happened ? What had we done We began to consider the advisability of making some offering to Uncle Zaids Kouba, to propitiate the gods. For Jove his fury pours,And earth is laden with incessant showers,When guilty mortals break th eternal laws,Or judges,
Mountain life in Algeria . CHAPTER to deserve this ? Wed/wsi/ay, May 5, to Thursday, 3fay 20. HE abnormal amount of wet delighted theKabyles, for they knew it meant heavycrops ; and they had suffered from droughtyseasons, so that the olive harvest of theprevious autumn had been an entire it was most annoying to had happened ? What had we done We began to consider the advisability of making some offering to Uncle Zaids Kouba, to propitiate the gods. For Jove his fury pours,And earth is laden with incessant showers,When guilty mortals break th eternal laws,Or judges, bribed, betray the righteous cause ;From their deep beds he bids tlic rivers rise,And opens all the floodgates of the skies :Th impetuous torrents from their hills fields are drowned, and mountains swept away ;Loud roars the deluge till it meets the main,And trembling man sees all his labours vain. 6o MOUNTAIN LIFE IN ALGERIA. Weather permitting we painted, and as our days much repeatedeach other, I shall not attempt to fol
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