insulani

Updated: May 21, 2025

Insulani semper mali, says an old Latin proverb.... "Do you know," the gaitered young ex-farmer was saying "do you know how many French colons there are in the whole regency? Eight or nine hundred, drowned in an ocean of Arabs, who own the land. And that's what we call settling a country. The Americans knew better when they cleared out the redskins! And how do the English manage in India?

Norman Douglas - Fountains in the Sand : Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia