HADJ ANO 



but I missed from the scene the 

 familiar form of Hadj Ano, whom I 

 had known there on previous visits. 

 He was an educated, high-caste 

 Arab, who acted as farm baihff to 

 Brown. He was an Algerian Arab, 

 and therefore a sportsman and a 

 gentleman, and very far superior to 

 the more servile local Tunisian 

 natives. 



The following morning, soon after 

 dawn, saw us on our way to the 

 snipe ground which lay at the foot 

 of Jebel Ishkel. This was a moun- 

 tain whose purple crags rose high 

 above the plain, very much like 

 Gibraltar in appearance. 



What curiosities to me my French 

 companions were ! And I, no doubt; 

 was equally an object of interest to 

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