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 motives of the hermit, for we remembered that the Kabyles would never have joined the insurgents during the great revolt of 1871 had not the Marabouts proclaimed a holy war and used their influence with the ignorant to urge the people on to battle. To them was due the rising of the entire region, and on their heads rests the blood shed by friend and foe. And as we approach the village of Icherridhen, around which raged the fiercest conflicts both of the war of occupation and of the revolt, I need not remind you that the Kabyles are splendid fighters. For centuries they were unconquerable and their mountain home inviolable.

KABYLES By Permission

Is not the word "Zouave" a word that signifies all that is brave, brilliant, and daring in a soldier, merely a corruption of the name of a famous Kabyle tribe, the "Zwawa"? The original Zouave regiments were formed here in Algeria. They were composed of French and Kabyle fighters, selected from among the bravest of the brave. Later the native