Sketches of Algeria during the Kabyle War

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SKETCHES OF ALGERIA DURING THE KABYLE WAR. BY HUGH MULLENEUX WALMSLEY, LIEOT. -COLONEL, IMPERIAL OTTOMAN ARMY, AUTHOR OF " JOORNAL OF A BASHI-BAZOTJK," AND "HINTS ON THE REORGANIZATION OF THE INDIAN ARMY." LONDON: CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193 PICCADILLY. 1858. [The Right ol Translation is reserved. | LONDON : Printed by G. Barclay, Castle St. Leicester Sq. TO MY MOTHER | glfbicatt- THIS VOLUME. H. M. W. PEEFACE. The following pages were written at detached in tervals, and under many disadvantages. The object I set before myself in the outset of my journey to Algeria was not to jot down at the moment, as so many have done before, the different adventures which befell me when treading for the first time the shores of a country quite new to me, or to note the manners and customs of a simple and singular nation.

I regret I did not do so, for in the meagre outline I have traced of Kabylia, its inhabitants, and its final conquest, I have been forced to draw principally from memory. All I can say, however, in my own favour is that what I have here recorded is substantially true and correct. I have drawn for the most part on memory, but not on fancy. The VI