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Title: Some world-circuit saunterings
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Nichols, William F. (William Ford), 1849-1924
Subjects: Voyages around the world
Publisher: San Francisco, P. Elder and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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e is to look a dozen ways at once inorder not to lose the novelties that treat Occidentaleyes on all sides. The guide talks of some of them,and takes you to the ordinary rug factory, and theslippery-lane-hke maze of Algiers where young Algiersswarms Uke bees but where the bee-simile must notin all accuracy be understood to suggest either thehoney or the fragrance of flower meads. He, how-ever, would be what Mrs. Partington used to call apolygon of a talker if he could begin to answer allthe questions in which the avid tourist finds himselfplunged by what he sees. The flowing robes ofhumanity, as deftly managed by the dock stevedoreto keep them from getting tangled up with the heavyfreight he handles, as by the statuesque dandy strol-ling the sidewalk, in their variety and splashes,rather than dashes, of color suggest something likethe flags of all nations and the first impulse is toask from what section does this one or that one come.But over all the stir and hues of face and raiment,
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S-2 « l^gs J JOTTINGS ON THE WAY TO NAPLES stand out those mosques with their needle-Uke mina-rets to prick the conscience of Christendom as itrecalls what North Africa once was—North Africain the early Christian ages being that strip of Africaalong the Mediterranean west of and distant fromEgypt which was the name of the region about theNile and its delta. What other reUgious conditionsmight exist in North Africa today, if the traditionsof its Cyprian of Carthage and its Augustine ofHippo had been maintained and an aggressive mis-sionary spirit had been at work through the ageswith that maxim of St. Cyprian in the plague for thewatchword of its propaganda—Respondere natalibus—in substance, Be true to your Christian birthright.There is many a lesson here to any modern Chris-tianity which fails to catch or keep the quickstep ofthe Apostohc missionary order, Go. Our propitious voyage—for we seemed to havehad favored winter days from beginning to end, andthat just after a severe

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