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WALLS OF CONSTANTINE Photograph by Neurdein Freres

THE SAHARA LIES BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS

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mass of masonry crumbled, and in its fall buried a company of gallant Frenchmen, who had advanced to scale the walls. A powder-magazine exploded, hurling into the air the terribly mangled bodies of the