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'l'RAVELS IN AFRICA.casemates are 80,damp, that their interiof is~ éovered constantJy witb athick nitrous incrustation.four feet ·ofstone-work.The thickness of thé battery parapet W'asThe office.., alcaidê, who snperintends and'show's these w0rks, was a French renegade, who many years ago, dese}'ltedfromone of the Spanish fortresses. A con~picuous instance ofthe 'backward state of knowledge in these procedures of the militarykindpresented itself now, in the circumstance of an order his majestythe Sultan was induced to issue, on very aosard sllggestio'ns, to prè'sêrtre·sorne 'Ofhis more valuable pieces ofartiHery from'the injurions eifectsof the situation already desctibed, Dy imposing iIpon the poor Jewstheusualsouffre-douleurs here, the task and expense of sewing them.up in. canvass! Thus they were left under every other degree of exposureduring the whole of winter, anà the resnIt need not be de..scribed.It isodd that, with the aid of European renegades,who iti8té> he supposed must ha've seen' something in thisway, theysllollld bealtogether so,destitute still of,anycorrect ideas. The main hattery onthe bay affords a specimen of the originality of these. It is in fact aliteraI half-moon work, being a semi-citcle parapeted for musqùetry,and surmounted by a cavalier for artillery, the space inside betweenthe lower parapet and the foot of the cavalier being a narrow onejust allO\ving men to pass.bisects this, and forms the crown or summit.A smal1 barrack occupied by teu gllnnersSome of the guns nowhere (of brass) are the last hequest of Sebastian king of Portugal.The weather still continues at times chilly and showery, and Europeansof the north are still glad to recur to the comforts of sea-coa'l fire,as in latitude fifty-two.But they have here a soutce of amusement ihadelightful spot--the epithet i8 not surcharged for this climate,-aholitthl'ee miles inland-a garden containing a light,'dean,airystructltrefor the purpose of diningiD; and here are posaessed the'real luxuries