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Updated: June 10, 2025
Some sixty miles south of Biskra, the most fashionable resort in the Algerian Sahara, there is a deep depression two hundred and fifty miles long, partly occupied by three salt lakes of the kind so common over the whole dried-up Saharan area.
Our other excursion was to the neighboring oasis of Sidi Okba, the ecclesiastical, as Biskra is the commercial, capital of the Ziban. Judging by appearances, one would say that commerce must be a much more thriving thing than religion, for Sidi Okba is in every way inferior to Biskra.
"Master," said Ali, "last night, when you were looking at the stars with the mistress, I had a word with the maid. She came to me, while I was asleep by the dun leader, and shook me as if I had been an old friend. "'Save her, she whispered, as I rubbed my eyes. "'Willingly, I replied. 'Who is she? "'My mistress, said the maid. 'They are taking her to Biskra. She has been sold to Mirza.
How, when Maïeddine was safely housed in his compartment, his companions looking up to his window for a last word, Monsieur Knight had whisked himself into a second-class compartment at the other end of the train. Next day, about four o'clock, a telegram was brought to Djenan el Djouad. It came from Biskra, and said: "Arrived here. Not spotted.
Tozeur, he thought, was all very well, and so were Oudiane and all the rest of them, but Eloued was fairer by far. And only three days' journey! Why not leave this country and go to the Souf, to Eloued, instead? Sacre nom! I could return by way of Biskra if I liked. And if I paid him five francs for a camel he would accompany me the whole way, like a brother.
He shuffled the cards mechanically, his eyes fixed on the opposite wall. "My friend," he said, at length, "whom do you consider the most powerful person in Biskra, the person to be first reckoned with?" The commandant laughed. "As I am in command," he said, "I should be court-martialled if I denied my own superiority." "And yet," said the lawyer, "you are only a poor second."
By diligence, it's two days to Biskra. That means oh! go, my friend! Go, and forgive me! Let us say good-bye now!" "Not for the world," Max answered. "Not if they'd have me shot at Bel-Abbés, instead of putting me into cellule for a few days at worst. Nothing would induce me to leave you until" he choked a little on the words "until you're married." "Cellule" she echoed. "You, in cellule!
She had seen plenty of caravans arriving and departing from Biskra, but, though she had seen small parties of tribesmen constantly in the vicinity of the town, she had never seen so large a body of mounted men before, nor had she seen them as they were here, one with the wild picturesqueness of their surroundings.
She knew exactly the grievance he had been nursing against her during the last few weeks in Biskra. Though he travelled perpetually and often in remote and desolate places, he travelled with the acme of comfort and the minimum of inconveniences. He put himself out for nothing, and the inevitable difficulties that accrued fell on Diana's younger and less blase shoulders.
"Has he a green turban?" asked the lawyer. "Has he been to Mecca?" "Yes," answered the commandant. "There you see the most powerful person in Biskra," said the counsellor. "Who?" asked the commandant. "The man in the green turban?" "No," said the lawyer, "the woman he is speaking to." "Mirza?" exclaimed the commandant. "Yes," said the lawyer.
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