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Excerpt from Tartarin de Tarascon: Edited With Notes And Vocabulary In November, 1861, Daudet2 and a fellow - traveler set out from southern France to hunt lions in Algeria. To tell the truth, I didn't go to Algeria expressly to hunt lions. Above all I wanted to caulk my somewhat dilapidated lungs in the good warm sunshine. But as soon as I set foot on the deck of the Zouaw, on which our enormous box of weapons had been em barked, I really imagined that I was going to exterminate all the wild beasts of the Atlas Mountains. The trip across the Mediterranean, the city of Algiers and its environs, the valley of the Chelifi River, groves of tropical trees, barking jackals, Moorish guitars, the outlandish antics of his tmveling compau ion all these sights and experiences left their record in the little green note - books that Daudet brought back with him, and from them he elaborated T artan'n de Tarascon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.