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Title: A trip through Italy, Sicily, Tunisia, Algeria and southern France
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Vanderbilt, William K. (William Kissam), 1878-1944
Subjects: Automobile travel
Publisher: New York, Priv. print.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ERMO derrick, some 50 feet above the water, lookingmore like a scarf-pin than a real motor. In a fewminutes she was on board and was safely stackedaway while the anchor was being raised. Fiveminutes later we were steaming out of the harbor. We had won! But it had been a long and try-ing race, and after troubles and misfortuneswhich had lasted for seven whole days. Our voyage was uneventful. The sea wascalm and we glided over it smoothly. In thecourse of the afternoon we obtained some re-markably fme views of the northern coast ofSicily, and at five oclock entered the harborof Trapani. We went ashore and took a goodlook at the town. It is a clean little place, witha hotel, the Grand, very inviting and comfort-able for tourists who would linger here for a time.The harbor is good, and the lofty mountainswhich form a fme background to the picture arevery imposing. We left Trapani at eight oclock,and sailing over a sea as smooth as glass, we ar-rived at Tunis at seven the next morning. 44)
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TOUR THROUGH TUNIS ANDALGIERS WE were welcomed to Tunis by a squall ofrain and wind, which met us just as welanded. Leaving the mechanic to ar-range for the landing of the car, we proceeded tothe Tunisia Palace Hotel. During the day we visited the mosques and theSouks quarters. Tunis is a city of great interestto the stranger visitor. The houses, one storywhite-washed affairs, are separated by narrowstreets, down the middle of which runs the sew-age. The tourist is constantly compelled duringhis walks in this part of the town, to hold hisbreath, as the odors emitted are anything butagreeable. The European part of the city is laidout with excellent taste in large and fine ))oule-vards with handsome buildings, the work ofFrench engineers. It was difficult to realize thatwe were in northern Africa and not in France, somuch does Tunis resemble Marseilles or Toulon. There are about 214,000 inhabitants, consistingof 100,000 Arabs, 50,000 Jews, 14,000 French, (45) TUNIS and 50,000 Italians a

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