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Lives of Alcyone

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Africa. He was hospitably received there, and his followers were<br />

encouraged to settle among the Atlas Mountains, in a valley by no<br />

means unlike the home that they had left. There among the Kabyles<br />

some <strong>of</strong> their descendants are still to be found, though naturally<br />

there has been some <strong>of</strong> their descendants are still to be found,<br />

though naturally there has been some admixture <strong>of</strong> other blood<br />

during the millenniums that have passed. One <strong>of</strong> our characters,<br />

Spica, had the honour <strong>of</strong> being the first baby born in the new<br />

settlement, the very day after the caravan had ramped there; and<br />

Fides declared this to be a happy omen, and specially distinguished<br />

the newly born infant by conferring upon him the title <strong>of</strong> “ father <strong>of</strong><br />

the new land” and taking him under his special protection.

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