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 gardens, the other falling through a series of cascades down to the lower town, where it again ramifies into a thousand rivulets. Unfortunately most of these channels are little better than open sewers, which, uniting below the town, flow in a fetid stream to the Sebu. Hence these damp quarters are constantly a prey to

epidemics, the pallid complexion of the inhabitants sufficiently attesting the foul atmosphere in which they live. The Mellah, or Jewish quarter, situated near the citadel in the new town, is outwardly little better than the Moorish districts; but