HADJ ANO 

 they occupied the farmhouse he 

 preferred to camp outside ; and, 

 knowing the dislike the Algerians 

 have for their French masters, I 

 thought no more of the matter. 

 He said he had heard of my arrival, 

 and had sent the boy to bring 

 me to him if I should be working 

 alone. 



We had an excellent dejeuner of 

 Arab dishes, in which " khus-khus " 

 (a kind of semolina and chicken 

 curry) figured as the piece de resist- 

 ance, and after a short rest we 

 started out for a bit of ground 

 which Hadj Ano recommended— 

 open stony ground with patches of 

 tufty, coarse grass and clumps of 

 thorn bushes, through which there 

 meandered a stream which every 

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