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SIDI MOHAMMED EL AID BEN SIDI ALI BEN SIDI EL HAJ ALI TEJANI
Marabout de la Zaouia de Temellat-Temaçin
Cercle de Touggourt
Province de Constantine
ALGERIE
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WAITING VISITORS AT TEMAÇIN
He gives us a cordial grasp of the hand, an honor rarely paid to Christians by a strict Mohammedan. We, not to be outdone in courtesy, follow the Arab custom, and, after having touched his sacred palm, devoutly raise our own fingers to our lips and kiss them. These little politenesses accomplished, we follow his holiness into the mosque to look upon the tomb containing those income-yielding bones of the
