ILLUSTRATIONS
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FACING PAGE
A soldier of Africa Frontispiece
Lo, all the pomp of yesterday 17
Here Scheherazade might have told her tales 32
Church and state in Tunisia 37
Thirteen centuries look down upon you 44
A gate to Barbary 49
They spend their holidays among the dead 64
The city of the mole-men 85
Homes of the Troglodytes 92
The voice from the minaret 97
The marabout in the desert 112
In the land of polygamy and passion 117
One of the most amazing ruins in the world 121
Medenine, the strangest city in the world 124
The Sun-God paints his picture in the West 129
Like feathered bonnets on the heads of a savage army 144
The fantastic dwellings of Mechounech 149
The forgotten of God 156
The sandy sea 161
Basking in the blinding sunlight of the Tunisian Sahara 176
The road to Timbuktu 181
Crossing the sand-dunes of the Grand Erg by motor 185
To prove that we were really there 188
A landmark for those who navigate the sea of sand 193
The shrine in the sands 196
The sand-storm 205
The sport of kings 208
The city of the Mozabites 213
Far hence, in some lone desert town 217
The start from Touggourt 220
The strange capital of a strange people 225
Desert damsels, old and young 229
What the pious Moslem expects to find in paradise 236
A Saharan market-place 240
The glory that was Rome 245
The city of the precipices 252
“Ul-l-l-l-l All-ah!” 273
Algiers, the capital of the Corsairs 280
Veiled women slip like sheeted ghosts 288
The resting-place of Cleopatra’s daughter 304
No, it is not always hot in Africa 321
The Moroccan is not afraid of mephitic maladies 328
The Riff 357
The price of empire 364
From out of the unknown 369
Strange folk from the far places 372
The panorama of the East 381
Forbidden to all save the faithful 384
In the city which gave the fez its name 389
Moroccan vaudeville 392
The Great Prayer outside of Fez 396
The harkas come down from the hills 401
A place of walled delight 408
The peace of Allah 416
The shadow of God on earth 421
A refuge of the rovers 424
The red city 428
The minarets of Marrákesh 433
The Aguenaou Gate of Marrákesh 437
The puppet and the man who pulled the strings 440
The empire-builder 440
Overlords of the southland 444
Most people think of Morocco as a semi-arid country 448
The stronghold of the Caïd Goundafi, overlord of the Forbidden Sus 452
A seat of feudal power 456
Maps
Outline map showing the French possessions in Africa 8
Map showing the countries of Barbary 24