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These pistes the old caravan-trails from the south are more available to motors in Morocco than in southern Algeria and Tunisia, since they run mostly over soil which, though sandy in part, is bound together by a tough dwarf vegetation, and not over pure desert sand. This, however, is the utmost that can be said of the Spanish pistes.
Egypt, Tunisia, Eastern Rumelia, Krete these had all been withdrawn from Ottoman control since the Berlin settlement, and now Macedonia seemed to be going the same way.
We were unprepared to do what France was straining to do: we occupied the manger to no one's good practically the position later assumed by Germany. Surely we were wiser to come to terms while we could, not as in the case of Tunisia, when too late.
Beneath it all there are the foundations of race and creed common to all, and the untouched countryman of Tunisia is closely akin to his fellow of Morocco. Even in the towns the underlying likeness is strong.
It occurred to me that I had heard on the ship that Sfax was the only town which had offered resistance to the French; its men have a fine reputation throughout Tunisia, which they do something now and then to maintain, in consequence. They certainly appeared a sturdy and virile lot.
Among the colons of Tunisia you may find a home establishment of the most comfortable type, but Government employes regard the Regency in the light of an exile; they never try to make their life more endurable, as they easily could do, with a little co-operation.
There are practically no tourists along this line, he explained, and consequently no accommodation for them; the towns that one sees so beautifully marked on the map are railway stations that and nothing more; and as to the broad highways crossing the southern parts of Tunisia in various directions well, they simply don't exist, voila!
We had too much shooting and stabbing, though. It was an English officer, that last one. What a row! In the night I left for Tunisia." "Oh, yes, Tunis," says Lindy. "Something about slaves there, wasn't it?" "Camels also," says Pasha. "I traded in both stolen camels and smuggled slaves." He throws this off as casual as if he was tellin' about sellin' sewin' machines.
The points in which the domestic usages of Tunisia differ from those of Morocco are the more striking on account of the remarkably minute resemblance, if not absolute identity, of so very many others, and as the novelty of the innovations wears off, it is hard to realize that one is not still in the "Far West."
He had planted quantities of prickly pears, he said, but the Bedouins' cattle had devoured them. These are useful growths in Tunisia, requiring hardly any moisture and forming, when full-grown, impenetrable walls of spiky green. They also bring in a respectable revenue. In the district of Kairouan, for instance, many families draw their entire income from them.
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