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When a mehari returns 

 to the tent of its owner 

 in the Sahara, exhausted 

 from a long journey, the 

 women feed it on cam- 

 els' milk in which has 

 been mixed pulverized 

 dates. 



An ordinary camel 

 lives, on an average, to 

 be about 18 years old, a 

 mehari from 25 to 30, 

 the 12 extra years being 

 probably due to the bet- 

 ter care. 



a plague: op 4 locusts in 



ALGERIA 



Last year Tunisia and 

 Tripolitania were free of 

 that dreadful scourge, 

 the loctust (Schistocerca 

 peregrina) . These crea- 

 tures resemble large, 

 green grasshoppers, and 

 are from three to four 

 inches long, with red legs 

 and iridescent wings, 

 which make a loud noise 

 as the swarm flies past. 

 Often the sun is ob- 

 scured for hours at a 

 time, the locusts being 

 hundreds deep and fly- 

 ing at a height of from 

 15 to 50 feet, and on 

 alighting they have been 

 known to stop a train. 



It is impossible for 

 any one that has not 

 seen a plague of locusts 

 to realize their size and 

 numbers and the horrors 

 of living for weeks at a 

 time in a country where 

 locusts fly into your face, 

 enter your house, and 

 even drop into, your food. 



Friends of ours had a 

 great place, about 20 

 miles from Oran, con- 

 sidered one of the most 

 fertile plantations of Al- 

 geria, and our first visit 

 there showed acres upon 

 acres of vineyards, culti- 



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