| Show I A REGENCY YM OF FRANCE FRANCEIn C 1 1 In Quarantine the tho Walls Wallo of 01 Whore Dido Lived and arld Hannibal Fought and ScIpio Con Conquered L Tho City Cily ol ot Tunis uJ i j It n n n n n n nl M M Special Correspondence t tINIS Africa June From mUNIS to Tunis you unit snit duo due east cast almost six hundred milts I i Again und and again the words of oC i Dr Johnson recur to mind The Tho grand object of oC nil ell travel travelIng tra Ing IB In to see Bee tho the shores of oC the i Mediterranean On those these shores shore the four Cour great crent rt t empires of oC the Assyrian All the tho P Pr Per Perl l the tho Grecian und and the theRoman Roman All our religion al ul almost most nil all our taws laws almost t nil all our almost nil that seta 11 us above savages A I has hart come to tu us from tram the shores shore or of the me it Mediterranean Hut But In these the latter I rj r S days the degenerate races that now n nf Inhabit that classic region might I learn learna f a very tery er groat Baal ti BI from our Intuit Infant He Re Rey y t public of ot the West Tho The rC eney of Tunis or Tunisia ns as ast I ii t It has has now become the fashion to call tl 1 t 1 a ItIs really little moro morn than u a 1 proton prolongation that In It are Ire Irete t gation of Algeria Algona except 1 i a I fewer te r forests fOIe l trod and cultivated 1 L and tho the mountains gradually dwindle to molehills mole For Tor nearly seven soven hun hundred hunI dred miles In n Algeria tho the I slopes of at the Atlas range rono rich In wheat barley cotton collon and tobacco or orchards charlls of ot o t lemons oranges oran n r an k s cherries and k poaches nachos groves of ot almonds chestnuts chestnuts and tamarisks tangled thick thickets thickets t g ets etc of ot oleander arbutus myrtle and i n Juniper alternated with randy and stretches b 1 iI overgrown with the dwarf palm whoso 1 ten tender er build buds and leafstalks furnish the tho iI i staple staple rood food of ot tho the Arabs and whose a 1 fibres make baskets basket I mats cords fans jl i and nd other oth useful articles her up 11 ore arc dense forests of and anti locust tr trees H and nil all the tho sunny have haven havea n a n peculiar scarlet glow glo borrowed n rr owed from tram the flowers of ot tho the pomegranate ate bush Tn In Tunis less leM ruin rain tails falls owing to the tho thoc configuration c of the country and tho the consequence la is that the land though I not absolutely sterile Is cultivated I with so Ito touch munh and 1111 uncertainty that It Is la mostly left to Mother Natures des 1111 desultory desultory method methods There In le decidedly le less f difference In the political nautical than the phy physical steal features of tho the adjoining prow provinces inces Until n few fow years Can ago the cw rov IO of Tunis was ens an nn hereditary whose ruler acknowledged the of tho lure Porte port coined hisa his hl a mousy m o us y In III the name of ot tho the sultan and t wl received Investiture from him but paid tin jio II tribute Now In nil all but name the regency of ot Tunis Is la as liS much French Ir f territory as dB Algeria and though the government In Is carried on In tho the name of ot tho the hey bey be ho loots hellI IB merely mere a figure Mal and gont French I Influence being belli supreme This Thill lichen of n a suits Prance France admirably being convent ent shen mistakes occur or acts neb com rom committed committed in that could not be countenanced Ir under tho the common law of or the tho French 4 fi republic It also provides cheap anti easy cosY machinery for governing the na native native na native tive races race and the tho necessity for tor the elaborate and expensive governmental govern gOern governmental mental system sY tem that would have to be the tho country proclaim proclaimed r ed cd nn an Integral part of nC France I 1 1 It Is le ft a 1 huge hUlte Joke Joko like Ilke that of ot the pot t calling the kettle hard names and the tho thet t tongs tonga sending the poker looker to Coventry t for tor having meddled with th thlire lire tire to II nil ourselves quarantined tined In Tunis because we came from tho leaner cleaner and healthier region of ot Algeria However tho the annoyance has Jian been more than titan made up by b forty fort hours at nt anchor under the breezy cliffs cliff of oC Carthage tho ancient Roman city on Its superb promontory point mint minting hog ing a colossal colo linger finger Into Inlo the Quit Gulf of ot Tun Tunis la from Its Ito westward shore Carth tarth Carthage nee age you remember rem was ens wa founded by b a I Phoenician colony front from Tyre eight hundred and years before betor l Christ was born Then risen It was called meaning New Nely City In Int t opposition to Utica the Old This Thill name became In Greek mm In tn Roman Itoman For upwards of oC seven hundred years cars It continued In un um I j Interrupted glory till destroyed by 5 Scipio lo 1 ll B C A quarter of oC a II cen century tury turf or so later Inter It wa was colonized l by Calus Calu Gracchus and amI rebuilt by Augus Augusta AuguStus ta tua Iong Long afterwards It U became the tho II chief seat of ot Christianity In Africa i y und and many of oC Its most mORt splendid edifices were demolished with the slew luw I w of rooting root rooting rootIng ing out paganism Its utter destruction destruction tion however did not nut begin until the Arab Invasion A I 1 61 i since which st time Ume generation after lifter generation hits has continued the thu pious vandalism rn with un unremitting unremitting remitting zeal All 11 that was r has hall been fen long since carried off oft either j tor 0 the construction of ot the modern city j of Tunis or to enrich the public build buildings I lags ings and nd museums of ot Europe I or tor to 10 r I fence Cence In barley fields and patches patchell round about Just JURt think of oC It II ItIn t l In this same old Carthage t scarcely less leas glorious than her herself herself self In and anti In I heroes Regulus the tome patriot surrendered i dered himself to certain tortures on his t return from Irom hi his hll heroic mission On Un OnI these plains pin Ins both Scipio and Hannibal al I 1 proved their generous greatness lI Here herel l Is Ditto had her palace and here the cX ex exiled lied tyrant Marius wandered and com coin compared r pared his fallen Callen fortunes with the sub sublime i lime Ime wreck around him A little far tar farther fari i titer ther along the western capes cape Is 18 the site Kite t of Utica where Colo the 1 Younger who came COlne to read philosophy surrendered himself to the tiC or Plato Pinto and selfishly committed after the tho overthrow of or Pompey Jom The I ancient cisterns by the Phoenicians morn more titan than eight centuries t before the tho Chrisian lan era lra are still lUll cs capable able of ot holding h water and the ruins of ot the 9 y lair Roman Hainan Forum the Temple Temi lc ofA of tiC tiCE A E tho the circus the amphitheater fis theater and ninny other splendid build buildIng fags Ing may ma b be distinctly traced Not Nol only a ancient heroes revive In memory under the wail wails of Carthage Carthage but personages 1 of later laler dole date crusaders warriors and 1 Who oho made the subsequent t history ot of this part of the world The This site pile of oC the Roman Itoman city Is h now occupied by b a pretty village half halt French rench I half halt halft t Arab Arah with with mosques and minarets and nUll Catholic churches and all nil around on onI I pleasant pleAt nl hillsides sloping eloping to In the bay ba crops crop thrive amid the ruins In the midst midst rises n a 1 handsome Gothic chapel and a monument surmounted by Ii h the u cross of or the crusader a n conspicuous landmark wen seen far Cor out at s sea a n It Is lu ii memory of Saint Louis Louill of France Franca who I himself on the of It Carthage to a Il generous zeal In his camp Louts h frt i erected a memorial In 1810 I 1 believe belloc and even this kindly art act set flet et wagging aln Gossips evil ovll tongue longue ton ue It wm was 1111 charred fit r that tho the French rench J king kin eared not net a n for Cor the memory of ot Saint Louis louill but bit lIt Im lm t th the opportunity to gain a first foothold for Cor the French In Tunis and that tm poor J prints priests who sang masses I for the soul loul of oC the crusader were t really monks militant under pa pi Y with har bar harness ness nUl on their back beneath till this cowl There Is l no city In the world lorld tore now strangely situated till than Tunis TunU u Though called l ft a I port It Is III not on nn the I seanor nor even cen on the gulf of or the same Mme sameI I name nam but lies lell at considerable distance Inland on a narrow Isthmus between l two large larRe but Jut shallow salt lIt lakes The Tilt northern l oon by b the natives El EI meaning Little Ulf a Sea corn COm with the Cult of or Tunis by byan byan byan rI an artificial passage als e at Goletta on Its lis seaward st urd edge Ille Goletta a town ton of ot per perhaps lisps haps three thousand in the thereal theNa thereal real Na port and Its Ita lI name Mme Is III R a corruption p of the Arable Arabic words Halk l or Throat of or the tIte Canal The passage Crom from Ute gait W to l lake take cute cuu the town Into Inton s t l jr l n A tAe i rt T Tk k two portions the northern half con containing c containing n the tho tort fort battery and roost must of t the the tho southern the thu heya Uti 8 summer Hummer palace the Iho old ol tho the nr ar custom house and prison Yes Ves Vessels sels Hels are compelled to anchor In the theo o open ten toad as 8 there Is not a cent clent depth of oC water near the he e shore The Fite boatmen probably pi ph pirates pirate rates rate or their descendants used to have things nil all their wn own way und and travelers traveler were quite quit at their mercy mere but the French authorities have stopped stepped all nil that ostensibly through the Hey and established a I regular tariff tart f for or the row to shore one and ad a II half francs Cranes for Cor lIch each a u trunk or largo large satchel half a I extra or for fora a 1 whole boat nine tones francs r Steam launches belonging to the flit Trans company n also alII ply lly between their vessels vernel and the tho shores Colette like Ilke Tunis has been benn con can constructed entirely with the thu materials n of oC n t nearby Carthage It Is ron rap idly to ta the northward go co that It has hns al at almost most reached the ancient city tho the newer quarter being In high favor with the Tunisians in summer Bummer on account of sea The climate Is la said cold to be agreeable hero the year oar around und and the famous baths bath nr ors scattered for tor a 11 amile tulle mile or more along shore The Tho fortress which defends built of ot huge blocks Mocks of ot stone stono taken from the palaces of ot Carthage has been many times be he besieged Perhaps the he most celebrated encounters In which It has hns figured were those between the armies arm of ot Charles V Y of ot Spain find el the cor eler usurper whom the th Sultan 1 named Jachn Jaehn We have not space In the Deseret Notes News to tell the story though thought it reads like n title tale of ot the Arabian Nights or one of ot Sir Walter Scotts Scott romances It Is a tale talo of oC trench treachery ery ory and bloodshed of secret In Influences and outrages by Barbary pi pirates rotes rates Mohammed last prince of ot tho the Dent Beni linter Harer dynasty which had hall ruled this region for three centuries died In 1525 1625 leaving many sons by his numerous wives One of or tho the youngest of these thes named Hassan owing to the Intrigues of his mother who It Is III sold said poisoned his hl father succeeded to the tho throne after putting to death all nil the brothers who opposed him When gained possession of ot Tunis with his corsair hordes lie he proceeded to strengthen Its citadel and to fortify Culotta regardless of oC expense which was borne Jorn by b the Sultan Meanwhile Ie Unseen compelled to flee Ilse had Invoked the aid of ot Charles Charlt V Before that day tiny numerous complaints had been b n brought to the tho emperor mp of ot the outrages committed by Barbary pi pirates rotes rates on his hili subjects both In Spain and Italy and the glory of ridding the world of or this odious species of oC oppression stun Ion Induced the monarch to turn a Il willing oar to the thi dethroned prince and to conclude n a treaty treat with him for Cor the Invasion of or Tunis For this purpose he drew contingents from every tery part of his hili empire a Flemish blemish fleet brought a body hOdy of or German Infantry the of Naples and a rill Sicily Shelly brought well vell trained bands of oC Italians the pope 1010 rendered all nil the tho assist assistance ance anco In his power tho the Knights of ot Malta sworn enemies of the Infidel equipped with an efficient squadron l and the emperor himself embarked at lIt stub mh tho the flower of at tho Span Spanish ish Isit nobility anda anti n a considerable con flotilla ln lil from Portugal under command of oC Jon Don Luls tho the empress brother Of course the thu el could not compete with such uch a 1 force torce though he hp called In all his hili corsairs and twenty thousand Moorish horse and anti a I mighty fleet of the tho Turkish galleys was Willi taken by assault In July of 1635 1535 amt the tho emperor Charles V be became ie came master of ot the situation ns as n yell well ellof of fleet lect arsenal and brass brall cannon which i he found planted on In the tho ramparts For three days day Tu mis mt was given over to the pillage by bytho b bythe tho the Christians f 9 1 who murdered Inhabitants nail ond carried moro more oft off Into slavery lavery Thus Massen Ruined Rained his throne aided by the most I civilized rations nations naU of the time sur surrounded surrounded ur rounded by carnage and antI abhorred by Jy his subjects Ho lie was obliged to sign signa n a 1 treaty acknowledging that be ht held his hies hl kingdom In fee to the crown of ot Spain agreeing to pay n a very veT large sum aunt to the subsistence of l C the garrison at Goletta and every year to send twelve horses horsell and anti ns as many man falcons to the em am emperor amI emperor I ns WI a R token of at vas He lie also al o agreed to free freo all nil Christian slaves In lull his dominion grant perfect liberty of religion am the exclusive right of for fr coral to the tha Spaniards and Undertook that no corsair should b be ad ud admitted to any of oC his ports How III he his word Is another story tor as nil Kipling says which cannot be related here The rhe ordinary way of oC reaching Tunis from Goletta Is by the Italian railway which In summer times Umes runs eight dally trains The distance Is s seventeen kil kilometres fl and In winter the trains are lire reduced to live five The railway rallay makes a n 1 great loop around nr und the tho lagoon and a I branch loor of a It makes a second smaller mallor loop to tt Marsha station elation just ju t buck botch of at an ancient ancient Cartilage Carthage Of course COUf you OU may i cross the lake If you prefer but butto 10 to do so RO the tho stranger literally takes take i his life In to his hili hands For or more titan than forty centuries It has been bean the receptacle of all alt the sewerage of ot Tunis a city of ot ful fully fully ul ly Inhabitants and such an odor rises from Its bottom of at sled Mad mud ax nM may well appeal to tho the stoutest heart and stomach FANNIE FANNIR B D |
