Fort National crowns a common ridge running east and west between the two chief valleys of Khabylia. It looks southward to the great snowy rampart of the Djurjura, here evident in all its glory. The road westward follows the ridge to its extremity and then descends to the vale in a series of abrupt and, to the motorist, rather alarming zigzags. And so we come to Tizi-Ouzou and Algiers. The magic carpet of our day has borne us in a brief space through landscapes of astonishing contrast; through territories which are a storehouse of conflicting yet commingled human interests; across the vast cornfields which suggest man’s taming of a newly discovered continent, to the siege-scarred cliffs of Constantine, the awe-inspiring immensity of the Sahara, the speaking ruins of the Roman marches, the Alpine gorges and sylvan sweetness of the Mediterranean shore. Perhaps nowhere within so small a compass is the history of twenty centuries writ so large, nowhere the evidence of man’s struggles, and especially of his failures, more plain for him who runs to read. [Illustration: ALGERIA AND TUNIS Extracted from the Michelin Guide to the Sunny Countries 1912 ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _INDEX_ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ain-Beida, 252 Algiers, 21 _seq._, 48 _seq._, 97, 103, 104 _seq._, 124 _seq._, 298, 302 Atlas, the Lesser, 28 Aurès range, the, 185, 197, 202, 205, 208, 245, 252 Bagai, 279 Batna, 197, 198, 201, 242, 248, 252, 285 Biskra, 43, 197, 198, 203 _seq._, 247 Blidah, 88, 133, 145 Bône, 72, 184 Boufarik, 89 Bougie, 56, 171, 287, 294 _seq._ Bou-Saida, 247 Chabet-el-Akhira, 286 _seq._ Cherchel, 88, 92 _seq._, 113 Colomb-Béchar, 240 Constantine, 83, 103, 136, 178 _seq._, 245 Djebel-Chénoua, 97 Djerba, 58 Djurjura, the, 28, 180, 298, 301 El-Eubbad, 171 El-Guerrah, 178 El-Kantara, 201 El-Mzab, 43, 234 Fort National, 298, 301 Foum-ês-Sahara, 201 Gouraya, 113 Guelma, 190 Isly, the, 142 Isser, the, 179 Jardin d’Essai, 104 _seq._ Kairouan, 60 Khabylia, 143, 178, 298 _seq._ Khenchela, 252 Kherrata, 288 La Macta, 135 Lambessa, 113, 247, 252, 279 La Sikkah, 137 Mansoura, 164 _seq._ Marengo, 88, 90 Mascara, 135, 136 Matifou, Cap, 61, 97 Medea, 59, 133 Medrassen, the, 198 Ménerville, 179 Metidja, the, 145, 179 Miliana, 136 Mustapha Supérieur, 27, 109 _seq._ Oran, 56, 59, 83, 103, 134, 143, 149, 172 _seq._ Oudjda, 59 Oued Atmenia, 257 Oued Fedhala, 198 Oued Rir, 232 Palestro, 179 Roumel, the, 180 _seq._ Sahara, the, 43, 82 _seq._, 144, 201 _seq._, 228 _seq._ Sahel, the, 82, 97, 179 Sbeitla, 31 Sétif, 178, 180, 285 _seq._ Sidi Bel Abbès, 150 Sidi Bou Medine, 170 _seq._ Sidi Ferruch, 129 Sidi Okba, 221 _seq._