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far, but each on an aspiring height. Never shall I forget the spectacle that greeted us the morn of our departure,—great banks of cloud filled the abysmal valleys and the hill-*top settlements stood forth like tiny island cities in the midst of a storm-tossed foamy sea, a unique archipelago suspended like the coffin of Mohammed between the earth and sky.
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"EL KANTARA"
Leaving Kabylia we travel eastward across the region of the High Plateaux to Constantine, a long day's ride by rail from Algiers. "Where shall we find words with which to
