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as red as the scriptural '* burning bush," and he 

 had as much sentiment in him as a " cuddy ; " but 

 he confided to me one night, after his sixth glass 

 of toddy, that he had seen so many beauties in the 

 long almond-shaped eyes of one Israelite girl, called 

 Luna, that he could not attempt to count them 

 between this and the next Sabbath. With the 

 Moslem women the best plan is to pretend you do 

 not see them, or look another way. However, they 

 are all veiled. 



Always make it a rule to sleep in your tent, for if 

 you should be induced to pass the night in a douar 

 hut you will remember it the longest days of your 

 life. The interiors of these sun baked edifices swarm 

 with fleas. Swarm, did I say ? These lively gentry 

 are in them in millions, and a healthy, full-blooded 

 Christian is a bonne bom he that they do not get 

 every day to feed upon, and they will feed upon you, 

 do what you like to prevent it. 



I have a vivid remembrance of such an experi- 

 ence, and expect to have till the day of my death. 

 We were three in number, officers of the Gibraltar 

 garrison. After a good dinner, partaken of in the 

 open air, all retired to rest, pipe in mouth. Our 

 agony forthwith commenced — for it was an agony. 

 Candles were lighted and a search made ; each of us 

 was discovered to be a pepper-and-salt colour from 

 the number of fleas adhering to us. Shake them off, 

 brush them off, pick them off, were all equally im- 

 possible. Thus we resolved to sit up and smoke, 

 and, of course, drink ; the wretched brutes would not 

 even then consent to leave us alone, but drove us out 

 into the yard, where we made a night of it among the 

 cattle. 



The hotel that I have always patronized is in 

 the upper part of the town and next door to the 

 American Consulate. These houses, in height, 

 exceed all adjoining, and from their flat roofs a 



