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 A VILLAGE ON EVERY HILL-TOP

FORT NATIONAL

The railway brings us to the foothills—to Tizi-Ouzou, whence we proceed by diligence. Our destination is Fort National, a military outpost of the French, perched on a ridge seemingly inaccessible; and while our coach, clumsy, shaky, and dilapidated slowly creaks on its complaining way over the mountain road, the driver tells us the strange names of the Kabyle villages that crown every mountain-top in