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 Spaniards, and Maltese gravitate towards the lower parts in the neighbourhood of the port and the fisheries. The Jews, who own about half of the shops in the French districts, reside chiefly half-way down the slope between the Christians

and the Mussulmans, the latter being still mainly confined to the labyrinth of slums stretching thence upwards to the kasbah. This Mussulman quarter, which has undergone no change since the conquest, is inhabited, as in the time of the Deys, by a motley gathering of Kabyles, members of the Mzab tribe, immigrants