English Translation

Nr.155 Stck.7=3 Abt.ifDt.nE.Vorga EV Sonnenscheins illuminated the colorful life of this world. In between, you go through the right paces in their darkness often the most lively activity prevails. It is probably good so, dirt and smell of the open sales stalls are so swallowed up a little by the semi-dark. On the left there is a beautifully arranged row of boiled mutton skulls, behind which one distinguishes just an Arab who works on further skulls; next to it is a "delicate dinner" - shop, ham and sausages, thickly covered with flies, hanging towards the street; on the other hand, a carpenter gathers together, a shoemaker, who is patching around in Arab silence on old shoes, ranks worthyly, then again an Arab praises his cloth- were and so the colorful row goes on in a small street as in the next, widens the alley to a small place, so it stands full of stalls, in which oranges, dates, grapes, cactus figs / the fruit of Opunżien/ u.a.m. At the expense or thrown off again by their dirt and rotten stench. In between, one of the small petite minarets lurks through the darkness of the alleys on the pressing and screaming Arabs, proclaims a crescent that Islam has still opened its banner here, even though, as in the whole of Algeria, it often seems more flaming than in the religiously still very fanatical Tunisia. By the inconspicuous cathedral we came to the palace of the last Beys, Hadj Ahmed, who, even after the fall of Algiers, had resisted the French and brought an unfavorable end to many French soldiers in the Rhumel battle. Only in 837 did the city fall into the hands of the Marshal Valeé. French military authorities now sit in the magnificent rooms. "As "Czechoslovaks" we could visit a part of the rooms. The 5 courtyards through which we were guided gave us a little idea of the oriental-Arab splendor of the former palace, artistic tiles, faience works, wonderful wood carvings, the oldest pictures of the African hours adorn the arcades