MOSQUE OF SIDI ZIAD, TUNIS
The Auction Day
ALGERIA AND TUNIS
PAINTED & DESCRIBED
BY FRANCES E. NESBITT
PUBLISHED BY A. AND C.
BLACK · LONDON · MCMVI
Contents
PAGE CHAPTER I [The City of El Djezair] 3 CHAPTER II [The Country-Side] 17 CHAPTER III [The Gates of the Desert] 37 CHAPTER IV [The Queen of the Desert] 57 CHAPTER V [Life on an Oasis] 71 CHAPTER VI [Timgad] 93 CHAPTER VII [Constantine] 107 CHAPTER VIII [On the Way to Tunis] 119 CHAPTER IX [Tunis] 139 CHAPTER X [Life in Tunis] 159 CHAPTER XI [Carthage] 179 CHAPTER XII [Sousse and El Djem] 193 CHAPTER XIII [The Sacred City] 207 [INDEX] 227
List of Illustrations
[1. Mosque of Sidi Ben Ziad, Tunis—the Auction Day] Frontispiece FACING PAGE [2. The Penon, Algiers] 4 [3. An Old Street, Algiers] 6 [4. The Carpet School, Algiers] 8 [5. Mosque of Sidi Abder Rahman, Algiers] 10 [6. The Leopard Door, Algiers] 12 [7. Algiers from the Jardin d’Essai] 16 [8. View from Mustapha, Algiers] 18 [9. On my Balcony, Algiers] 20 [10. Bougainvillæa, Algiers] 22 [11. The Garden Court of an Old Moorish Villa, Algiers] 24 [12. Friday at the Cemetery, Algiers] 26 [13. Koubba of Sidi Noumann, Bouzareah] 28 [14. Stone Pines, Algiers] 30 [15. The Red Aloes] 32 [16. The Gates of the Desert] 38 [17. Spinning] 42 [18. The Red Village, El Kantara] 46 [19. On the Edge of the Desert] 48 [20. Carding Wool] 50 [21. In the heart of an Oasis] 52 [22. In the Market-Place, Biskra] 58 [23. Evening on the Sahara] 60 [24. Sunset] 62 [25. The Fruit Market, Biskra] 64 [26. The Story-Teller] 66 [27. A Village Street, Biskra] 70 [28. A River of the Sahara] 74 [29. A Biskra Woman] 76 [30. A Nomad Camp] 78 [31. A Caravan on the Sahara] 80 [32. The Begging Marabout] 82 [33. The Palm Village] 84 [34. A Mozabite Fantasia] 86 [35. Street of the Dancing Girls, Biskra] 88 [36. The Arch of Trajan, Timgad] 96 [37. The Forum, Timgad] 100 [38. Market Day, Timgad] 102 [39. Gorge of the Roumel, Constantine] 108 [40. A Game of Draughts] 112 [41. The Silent Waterfall, Hammam Meskoutine] 120 [42. The Arab Wedding, Hammam Meskoutine] 122 [43. Temple of Celestis, Dougga] 132 [44. Tunis] 140 [45. Souk des Etoffes, Tunis] 144 [46. Souk el Attarin, Tunis] 148 [47. Souk el Trouk, Tunis] 150 [48. Souk el Belat, Tunis] 152 [49. Tunis from the Belvedere] 158 [50. A Street of Arches, Tunis] 160 [51. The Zaouïa of the Rue Tourbet el Bey, Tunis] 164 [52. Souk el Hout, Tunis] 166 [53. Rue Tourbet el Bey, Tunis] 168 [54. Rag Fair] 170 [55. The Fritter Shop, Tunis] 172 [56. Unlading Wood] 174 [57. The Ancient Ports of Carthage] 180 [58. The Old Punic Cisterns, Carthage] 182 [59. The Carthage Aqueduct] 184 [60. The Site of Carthage from Sidi Bou Saïd] 188 [61. Sousse] 194 [62. The Basket-Makers, Sousse] 196 [63. The Roman Amphitheatre, El Djem] 200 [64. Evening, Kairouan] 206 [65. La Grande Rue, Kairouan] 210 [66. Carpet-Making] 212 [67. Mosque of Sidi Okba, Kairouan] 214 [68. Moorish Gateway, Kairouan] 218 [69. The Mosque of the Three Doors, Kairouan] 220 [70. A Desert Afterglow] 224 [Map at end of Volume.]
The Illustrations in this volume have been engraved and printed in England by The Hentschel Colourtype, Limited.