item: #1 of 5 id: 32461 author: Dahn, Felix title: The Scarlet Banner date: None words: 89058 flesch: 84 summary: It ran as follows:-- 'To King Gelimer King Theudis. Then assemble the army and--Hail to King Gelimer! Silence, madman! cried the latter, startled, as if his most secret wish were revealed to him, you will stay here! keywords: ammata; arms; army; banner; battle; belisarius; brother; camp; carthage; city; day; death; decimum; desert; emperor; eugenia; eyes; face; fara; foot; friend; gelimer; genseric; gibamund; god; gold; hand; head; heart; hero; hilda; horse; king; left; little; love; man; men; modigisel; moment; moors; noble; people; priest; right; roman; sand; sea; sword; thrasaric; time; vandals; verus; victory; war; way; white; wine; zazo cache: 32461.txt plain text: 32461.txt item: #2 of 5 id: 35222 author: Sumner, Charles title: White Slavery in the Barbary States date: None words: 28962 flesch: 69 summary: [Illustration] As early as the thirteenth century, under the sanction of Pope Innocent the Third, an important association was organized to promote the emancipation of Christian slaves. The history of Algiers abounds in well-authenticated examples of _conspiracy against the government_ by Christian slaves. keywords: algiers; american; barbary; captives; cause; cervantes; christian; country; day; england; english; fellow; footnote; freedom; god; government; history; illustration; liberty; life; long; man; men; morocco; new; people; power; slavery; slaves; states; time; tunis; united; vol; war; white cache: 35222.txt plain text: 35222.txt item: #3 of 5 id: 40832 author: Le Queux, William title: The Veiled Man Being an Account of the Risks and Adventures of Sidi Ahamadou, Sheikh of the Azjar Maraude date: None words: 49627 flesch: 75 summary: A few years later, according to Tarik e Sudan, Koti edited a history of the Kingdoms of Ganata, Songhoi, and Timbuktu, the only history written of those once all-powerful centres of civilisation, and in addition he dealt with the concerns of many peoples and many men. Ruined temples, with long rows of broken columns, and great houses cracked and fallen into decay, stood silent and deserted, grim, grey relics of a glorious past. keywords: allah; art; azjar; city; country; dark; darkness; day; days; death; desert; ere; eyes; face; feet; french; gold; half; hand; head; hour; instant; life; light; lips; love; man; men; moment; people; place; rock; sand; secret; sheikh; sultan; sun; thee; thine; thou; time; water; white cache: 40832.txt plain text: 40832.txt item: #4 of 5 id: 46705 author: Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco) title: In the Land of Mosques & Minarets date: None words: 87354 flesch: 69 summary: The Arab, by tradition, is a temperate person in food and drink, but the European has taught him to drink white wine and he himself has copied the French and taken (in small numbers fortunately) to absinthe, and now he has got a ready-made distillery of _lagmi_ in every palm-tree. To-day Kenchela has nothing for the tourist but its Hôtel de France, and its Monday market, which like other _indigène_ keywords: africa; algeria; algiers; ancient; arab; away; berber; bey; biskra; blida; café; cairo; camel; caravan; carthage; century; chapter; chief; cities; city; civilization; class; coast; constantine; country; day; days; desert; donkey; european; fact; france; french; god; gold; good; government; ground; habib; half; hand; head; holy; home; horse; hotel; illustration; italian; jews; kabyle; kilometres; land; left; life; marabout; market; means; mediterranean; military; minaret; mohammed; moorish; mosque; mountains; mussulman; native; new; north; oran; people; place; population; port; prophet; railway; real; red; road; roman; route; ruins; sheep; sidi; sort; south; things; time; tlemcen; tomb; town; tozeur; tunis; tunisia; view; walls; water; way; white; women; work; world; years cache: 46705.txt plain text: 46705.txt item: #5 of 5 id: 61545 author: Lithgow, William title: The Totall Discourse of the Rare Adventures & Painefull Peregrinations of Long Nineteene Yeares Travayles from Scotland to the most famous Kingdomes in Europe, Asia and Affrica date: None words: 152288 flesch: 57 summary: And where base Fortune, play'd the errand whoore, In making meane men great, and great men poore: In whose times flourished the most famous medicines, and Philosophers that were among the Pagans, as A Vicenne, Rasis, Albumazar, Averroes, &c. with other great numbers maintained by the Kings of Morocco, that then were Masters of all Barbary and Spaine: keywords: afterward; againe; alwayes; anno; armes; asia; auncient; backe; beginning; betweene; body; borne; captaine; castle; cause; chiefe; christian; church; city; come; comming; company; constantinople; countrey; crosse; cut; day; dayes; death; discourse; distant; divers; doe; duke; earth; east; emperour; end; english; europe; face; farre; father; feete; fields; fire; foote; fortune; foure; french; friends; generall; god; goe; gold; good; governour; grave; great; greece; greekes; ground; gulfe; gypt; halfe; hands; hath; head; hee; high; hill; holy; house; infinite; inhabitants; italy; james; jerusalem; jewes; john; journey; keepe; kind; king; kingdome; knowledge; lady; land; leagues; leaving; left; length; let; liberty; life; lord; love; low; lying; mahomet; man; manner; meane; mee; men; miles; moores; morning; mother; mount; mountaines; nature; neare; new; night; north; number; parts; passage; past; people; pilgrimes; place; pope; power; priests; prince; reason; regard; religion; rest; returne; river; rocke; romane; rome; saint; saw; sayd; sea; seas; second; seene; selfe; set; severall; ship; shoare; sir; sixe; small; sonne; souldiers; south; soyle; spaine; standeth; standing; stone; strangers; temple; thee; things; thought; thousand; thy; time; towne; turkes; turkish; unto; valley; venetian; venice; walles; water; way; wee; west; whereof; wine; women; worke; world; worthy; yeares cache: 61545.txt plain text: 61545.txt