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Excerpt from The Voice of the South Another scene, too, connected inseparably with that radiant afternoon returned to me. Standing in the river-bed of the oued-biskra with my back towards the desert I had looked northwards. Among the boulders that mirrored themselves in the stream were two Arab boys. Overhead, a palm-tree bent above the water and gazed at itself in the little pools that lay arrested among the rocks. In the background the scene opened, not with the sheer abruptness, the brusque violence, of the cleft as seen from el-kantara, but with. A gentle suavity of introduction, leading the eye along shining water-ways, between lines of palms, onwards, up wards, to where, in the blue of the distance, the hills slept in a mantle of sunbeams. Slowly we left Biskra behind us. Life was beginning to awake in the drowsy streets - a dog crept from under a clump of aloes, a child watched us from behind a cactus hedge - while overhead in the clear spaces of the sky a band of swallows wheeled ceaselessly. 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.