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the women are plain; those of the men 
have a round stone on top to denote a 
turban. All graves have a sort of cup or 
small hole cut into the top of the slab. 
This cup is supposed to fill up with water 
when it rains, and the birds of the air 
come and drink out of it. If they do, it 
is a visible sign from Allah that the soul 
of the departed is at peace. It is a good 
omen to the members of the bereaved 
household, who go on their way rejoicing. 
Tunis is supplied with pure and abun- 
dant drinking water piped over 100 kilo- 
.meters from “Mount Zaghouan,’ the 
same springs that supplied Carthage two 
thousand years ago. Portions of the Ro- 
man aqueduct remain and were restored 
and used by the Spanish during their in- 
vasion of northern Africa. The Roman 
cisterns of Carthage were very numerous 
and so well preserved that the French 
government has at little expense restored 
the best and made them into a reservoir 
that supphes the surrounding towns of 
La Marsa, Sidi-Bon-Said, La Goulette, 
and others. 
Bedouins have utilized the older cis- 
terns, that look like great caverns, and 
made homes out of them, and their chil- 
dren run after vou for miles, begging for 
pennies. 
The Bedouins that cannot find room 
in these old cisterns use primitive nomad 
tents that they pitch under the shelter of 
some prickly-pear hedge to break the 
sharp wind that sweeps over Carthage 
during the winter months. 
The foundation of Carthage 
from the ninth century B. C., 
a Phoenician princess. 
and around a hill called the 
large Roman Catholic 
ge dates 
under Dido, 
Tt was built on 
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cathedral, St. 
Louis of Carthage, occupies the site to- 
day, and was built by the “Peres Blancs,’ 
or White Fathers, a brotherhood founded 
by the late Cardinal Lavigerie. Besides 
doing a great deal of ood among the 
natives, the Péres Blancs have excavated 
the ruins of Carthage under the super- 
vision of Father Dulatre, one of the 
greatest authorities on Phoenician and 
Roman antiquities. 
The Roman arena is small. The cross 
was erected in memory of early Chris- 
tian martyrs, thrown to wild beasts on 
this spot 202 A. D. The “Theater of the 
Odeon” has some fine old capitals and 
columns lying about, and one can form 
an idea of its former beauty on going to 
the Museum of the Bardo, where it 
seems as 1f almost every other statue or 
bas-relief is marked as coming from the 
Odeon-Carthage. 
The two lakes with the island in the 
center are all that remains of the famous 
ports of Carthage, where the Pheenician 
war galleys laid at anchor. The admiral 
of the fleet and his officers lived in quar- 
ters on the little round island, now partly 
filled in by the shifting sand. From the 
Byrsa the view spreads over a wide and 
placid. bay of wondrous color, dotted 
with lateen sails of the fishing craft. 
In the distance looms up ‘“Bon-Kor- 
nan. » Om the Mountam of the Bull; 
where during the centuries the Phceni- 
cians lived at Carthage hundreds of cap- 
tives, slaves, and children were sacrificed 
at one time to Baal, Moloch, or Tassit. 
The two peaks of Bon-Kornain are sup- 
posed to have resembled the horns of a 
bull, and here between the horns was one 
of those “high altars of Baal’’ spoken of 
in the Bible. 
