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Title: A trip to the Orient; the story of a Mediterranean cruise
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Jacob, Robert Urie
Subjects: Middle East -- Description and travel
Publisher: Philadelphia, The J. C. Winston co
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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slight breeze, kept up a continualcreaking sound. Huge trees, whose wide-spreadingbranches were supported by scores of accessory trunks,so that each tree formed a grove of its own,we recognizedas banyan trees. In one part of the garden, windingpaths led through a tangled tropical growth so denseand wild that one felt as if in the midst of an Africanjungle where a tiger might spring forth or a boa con-strictor drop down on ones head. On the heights to the east, in the favorite modernresidential district, called Mustapha Superieur, manylarge white stone hotels and apartment houses weresituated amid gardens of glossy-leaved orange and lemontrees. Palms, plane, and pepper trees lined the clean,wide avenues; ereen terraces beautified the hillside 76 A TRIP TO THE ORIENT. gardens; and villas were almost hidden from sight by theclimbing roses and luxuriant vines with clusters ofpurple racemes. Many of these villas, said the guide, are owned bywealthy English and French families who spend the
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THE ENTRANCE TO A NARROW STREET. winters here. The mild climate and uniform tempera-ture of our city makes this place a favorite winter resortnot only for invalids, but for those who desire to getaway from the damp fogs and harsh winds of more north-ern climates. THE CITY OF ALGIERS. 77 Our city is noted for two views which we think areunsurpassed, he continued, as the driver reined in histeam on a summit. One is this which we now lookdown upon of city, harbor, sea, and villages near anddistant along the shore. The other, you already haveseen from the deck of the vessel, yet at sunsetyou will find that panorama of the city, villages, heightsand mountains even more beautiful. While we were exploring the city, the officers on thesteamer were engaged in directing the taking on of freshsupplies of coal, water, and provisions, which had beenpurchased at Algiers. During the two days the Moltkelay in the harbor fifteen hundred tons of coal werecarried in baskets on the shoulders of Arabs fro

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