Semilasso in Africa Volume 2; Adventures in Algiers, and Other Parts of Africa (Paperback)

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 Excerpt: ... 122 THE WEATHER. LETTER XXXI. Beautiful Villages.--A grave Dragoman.--Commercial Speculations.--Jewesses and Negresses.--The English Mission and Bible Society at Tunis.--Tunisian Perfumes.--Adventure of the French Consul. May 3rd. I Stood in need of some rest, and have therefore led rather a slothful life since I have been here. The weather also has been cool and rainy, so that I doubt not this delicious month has been on the whole more agreeable in our rough north. The present temperature is, for this country, almost unexampled; but there is great rejoicing at the quantity of rain, which promises an extraordinary harvest, and consequently much pecuniary profit. In fact, I have never seen the barley stand so finely in Europe, and the foliage of the olive is quite black. My household arrangements are pretty comfortable. Mustapha cooks tant bien que mal. SCARCITY OF HORSES. 123 The quarters provided for me by M. de Montes are spacious and clean, and might therefore, for this country, be considered perfect, did not a detestable smell from God knows what sewer poison them, --a calamity that here appears inevitable in all houses. I have at length succeeded in hiring two tolerable horses, although they are by no means so superabundant as in Bona, where I had the choice of a whole regiment; and the number is extremely reduced by all private people having, as I have already mentioned, now sent their horses to grass. The state of the weather has, however, prevented me from using them more than twice. The first time I took a ride with J, in a very pleasant and well cultivated part of the country, to a village surrounded by gardens, called Ariana. Here a hill, which the Europeans have christened Belvedere, commands one of the most celebrated prospects in the neighbour..

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 Excerpt: ... 122 THE WEATHER. LETTER XXXI. Beautiful Villages.--A grave Dragoman.--Commercial Speculations.--Jewesses and Negresses.--The English Mission and Bible Society at Tunis.--Tunisian Perfumes.--Adventure of the French Consul. May 3rd. I Stood in need of some rest, and have therefore led rather a slothful life since I have been here. The weather also has been cool and rainy, so that I doubt not this delicious month has been on the whole more agreeable in our rough north. The present temperature is, for this country, almost unexampled; but there is great rejoicing at the quantity of rain, which promises an extraordinary harvest, and consequently much pecuniary profit. In fact, I have never seen the barley stand so finely in Europe, and the foliage of the olive is quite black. My household arrangements are pretty comfortable. Mustapha cooks tant bien que mal. SCARCITY OF HORSES. 123 The quarters provided for me by M. de Montes are spacious and clean, and might therefore, for this country, be considered perfect, did not a detestable smell from God knows what sewer poison them, --a calamity that here appears inevitable in all houses. I have at length succeeded in hiring two tolerable horses, although they are by no means so superabundant as in Bona, where I had the choice of a whole regiment; and the number is extremely reduced by all private people having, as I have already mentioned, now sent their horses to grass. The state of the weather has, however, prevented me from using them more than twice. The first time I took a ride with J, in a very pleasant and well cultivated part of the country, to a village surrounded by gardens, called Ariana. Here a hill, which the Europeans have christened Belvedere, commands one of the most celebrated prospects in the neighbour..

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General Books LLC

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United States

Release date

February 2012

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February 2012

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246 x 189 x 4mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

Pages

72

ISBN-13

978-1-151-19057-4

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9781151190574

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1-151-19057-8



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