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 camels. But long before dawn the Arabs stole away, not, however, with folded tents, for they had none, nor silently, for a veritable bedlam of human cries, cruel blows, and animal complaints attended their departure. When some hours later we make a round of the market-place, we find it animated with the local business of the day. There are venders of all sorts of things from German glassware, gaily decorated, to grilled grasshoppers. The latter are served hot to passing epicures who may be seen meditatively nibbling at the delicious morsels in a shady corner.

SHELTERED FROM THE SUNSHINE

"MILLIONS IN IT"

A merciless sun beats down upon the just and unjust; but the hotter becomes the day the more snugly do the natives wrap around them their hooded garments, which keep out heat as well as cold. Above the rude arcades that surround the square rise the bright green tips of Touggourt's