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Show mo t tubbornly for it 1779-1783, while England was engao·eci in a war with s m of her colonie and with France. Thirty hours and 411 mile from Gibraltar brouo-ht u to Algiers, the capital of Algeria, Sun clay 1\T arch 3rd. Here we went ashore and enjoyed a drive through the city a well as a walk through its mo t den , ely occupied street, where we had our first real vi w of Oriental life. Including the Americans that were sightseeing therein, it really . ecmecl to be the Street of All :\l"ation , but particularly Oriental people, and the writer frankly confesses that he was glad to get a way from such colors and dirt and marketing and mumbling which suggested that a po sible volcano might break forth any moment. So we took to more cono·enial quarter. and soon eli covered that Igiers has really two parts-the Eur pean and the Moori ·h parts. The drive around the upper part of the city wa mo t beautiful becai1se f the attractive home and the magnificent marine view that pread out before u . Four hundred and "ixty-two mile. and thirtyeight hour brought u to Monaco, on the soutllern coast of France, Tuescla~·. :\T arch Sth. This unintere ting little town is but a suburb of the real place of interest, which mo. t touri. ts ha,·c a longing desire to see-1\lonte Carlo. ~1onaco is the lanclincr place hut ~Jonte Carlo is the objective place. Tl1e cornerstone for this botl1 famous and infamous Casino ((~ambling Palace) was laid in 18SR hy au Association whose capital is $6,000,000.00, ancl a contract was entered into with the late Prince 'harlcs whereby il ' oulcl maintain both the Civil and Religious government of the city an l pay to Prince 1\lbert of Monaco annually the um of 350,000.00 for Page Fifteen |