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BPLDC no.: 08_04_000336

Page Title: The oases of Biskra and Sidi Okba. The desert

Collection: Tupper Scrapbooks Collection

Album: Volume 1: Algeria.

Call no.: 4098B.104 v1 (p. 12)

Creator: Tupper, William Vaughn

Genre: Scrapbooks

Extent: 1 page ; 33 x 39 cm.

Description: Scrapbook page contains a geographic description of Biskra along with a description, both geographic and historical, of Sidi Okba

Transcription: Biskra. French outpost on the desert in an oasis in which grow 100,000 date palms beside several thousand fruit trees of various sorts. It is a collection of five characteristic Arab villages with a small French quarter, situated at the edge of the desert in the jaws of Aures Mts. Climate genial, vegetation beautiful. Water supplied from Oued Biskra and Artesian wells.; Sidi Okba. A poverty striken [sic] mud built Arab village about two hours drive in the desert from Biskra. Here is a rude little mosque, the oldest Mohammedan structure in Africa, adorned with ostrich eggs. In it lie the remains of the Arab conqueror Sidi Okba who after vanquishing all nothern [sic] Africa from Egypt to Tangier, drove his horse into the Atlantic and declared that only the ocean prevented him from conquering every nation which knew not God nor Mohammed.

Notes: Page description supplied by cataloger, derived from captions and/or annotated information.

BPL Department: Print Department

Rights: No known restrictions.

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  • Camera: Sinar AG Sinarback 54 FW, Sinar m
  • License: CC BY 2.0
  • User: Boston Public Library BPL
Date circa 1892
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  • Flickr upload date: 2010-03-03 10:57:33
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