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From a photograph from the Service dcs Beaux-Artsan Maroc.Chella.Minaret of the ruined mosque.in uptorn tiles and thrusting gouty armsbetween the arches; the garlanding ofvines flung from column to column; thesecret pool to which childless women arebrought to bathe, and where the treespringing from a cleft of the steps is alwayshung with the bright bits of stuffwhich are the votive offerings of Africa.The shade, the sound of springs, theterraced orange-garden with irises bloomingalong channels of running water, allthis greenery and coolness in the hollow ofa fierce red hill make Chella seem, to thetraveller new to Africa, the very type andembodiment of its old contrasts of heatand freshness, of fire and languor. It is15