: The French in Algiers The Soldier of the Foreign Legion; and The Prisoners of Abd-el-Kader by Alby Ernest Lamping Clemens Duff Gordon Lucie Lady Translator - Algeria History 1830-1962; France. Armée. Légion étrangère; Abd al-Qadir ibn Muhyi al-Din Ami

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THE SOLDIER OF THE FOREIGN LEGION.

Algiers--The Poetry of the Galleys--Bath--Palace at Mustapha Superieur--General Von Hulsen--I join the Foreign Legion--French colonization in Africa--Hassan, the coffee-house keeper 15

Dschigeli--The Foreign Legion--Climate--Attack of the Kabyles on the Blockhouses--Massacre of a Kabyle Village--Samoom--Homeric Fight--Death of my Friend--Fort Duquesne--Formidable Starfish--Shipwreck--Engagement with the Kabyles--Escape of the Prisoners--Burial of their Dead 22

Budschia--Monkeys--March to Buterback--General Bugeaud--Algiers--Lord Exmouth and the Dey--Progress of civilization and jollity among the Arabs of both sexes--Songs 34

Arab Valour--Abd-el-Kader--Snakes--Burning the Crops--Roman Bridge--The Duke of Aumale falls sick--Plundering of a Kabyle Village--The Prisoners--The Queen's Tomb--Her royal crown--Inexpediency of turning the sword into a ploughshare 64

Voyage to Mostaganem--Storm--Funeral at sea--Landing--Bivouac Matamon--Bey of Mostaganem--Arabic music--Captain Li?vre--African spring--French and Arab Soldiers 79

THE PRISONERS OF ABD-EL-KADER.

Reception at Abd-el-Kader's camp--Description of Abd-el-Kader--His tent--Unexpected meeting with M. Meurice--Abd-el-Kader's officers 100

Meurice's story--The camp and the soldiery--The Adventures of a German renegade--Arab horses--Prayers--The Sultan's band of music 106

French deserters--Sardinian prisoners--Their story--Letter to Algiers--Raising the camp--Abd-el-Kader--The only cannon--The Bey of Mostaganem--Return to El-Kaala 113

Method of cooling a tent--Abd-el-Kader's munificence--Tribute paid in kind--A good dinner--Coffee--Supplies from Morocco--Letter from General L?tang--Arab foray--Prisoners--The beautiful black slave girl 120

Revolt of Abd-el-Kader's uncle--His letter--Jews--Attack on the Beni-Flitas and Houledscherifs--Horrible execution of a prisoner--Vermin--Tekedemta--Letter from the Arab prisoners at Marseilles 127

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