THE
FRENCH IN ALGIERS.
THE
    SOLDIER OF THE FOREIGN LEGION;
AND THE
    PRISONERS OF ABD-EL-KADER.  
TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN AND FRENCH BY
    LADY DUFF GORDON.  
NEW EDITION.
    LONDON:
    JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
    1855.  
iii
PREFACE.
Clemens Lamping, the author of the first part of this little volume,    is a young lieutenant in the Oldenburg service, who, tired of the    monotonous life of a garrison, resigned his commission in July, 1839,    and went to Spain to win his spurs under Espartero. Unfortunately he    was detained by contrary winds, and arrived just as the treaty of    Bergara had put an end to the war.  
    After spending six months at Madrid in abortive attempts to join    the army in Arragon, then the seat of war, he resolved to go to    Africa, and take part in the French crusade against the infidels.    He accordingly went to Cadiz, encountering many adventures on his    way through La Mancha and Andaluzia, and thence to Algiers, where he    entered the foreign legion as a volunteer.  
    After two years of danger and hardship, the author returned to    Oldenburg, having lost many illusions, and gained some experience.    His sovereign restored him toiv his former grade in the service of    Oldenburg, where he sits at his ease by his own fireside, and relates    his adventures to his friends.  
    Lieutenant Lamping’s Reminiscences are followed by the abridgement    of a narrative of five months’ captivity among the Arabs, by M. de    France, a lieutenant in the French navy. The author modestly assures    his readers that he is better skilled in the management of a ship than    of his pen, and that his book would never have been published but    at the request of his friends. It has nevertheless reached a second    edition in France.  
L. D. G.
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CONTENTS.
THE SOLDIER OF THE FOREIGN LEGION.
CHAPTER I.
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        Coleah—Arab Coffee-houses—The Hakim’s—Court of Justice—Arab        Women and Domestic Life—Marriages—False alarm—Sofi the        Modern Hâfiz—Grief for the departed glory of the Moors—Abubekr’s        piety rewarded      
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CHAPTER II.
        Algiers—The Poetry of the Galleys—Bath—Palace at Mustapha        Superieur—General Von Hulsen—I join the Foreign Legion—French        colonization in Africa—Hassan, the coffee-house keeper      
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CHAPTER III.
        Dschigeli—Th                        
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