The last Punic war, Vol. 2 (of 2) : $b Tunis, past and present : with a narrative of the French conquest of the regency.Broadley, Alexander Meyrick
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The last Punic war, Vol. 2 (of 2) : $b Tunis, past and present : with a narrative of the French conquest of the regency.
Broadley, Alexander Meyrick
Tunisia -- History; Tunisia -- History -- French occupation, 1881-1956
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_CORRIGENDA, VOL. II._
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Page 36, line 8, _for_ “Giará” _read_ “Jára.”
„ 45, line 16, _for_ “Giará” _read_ “Jára.”
„ 48, line 5, _et passim, for_ “Lavigerie” _read_ “Lavigérie.”
„ 328, line 6, _for_ “alcoholise” _read_ “alcoholisé.”
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 1: Messrs. Perry, Bury, & Co. of Liverpool.]
[Footnote 2: Since made an officer of the Legion of Honour as a pendent
to Mustapha’s Grand Cordon and Musalli’s Knight Commandership.]
[Footnote 3: Now a Major or Colonel in the Imperial Ottoman army.]
[Footnote 4: Now a fugitive at Malta.]
[Footnote 5: This person was the confidential servant of the Prime
Minister Mustapha down to a few days after the 12th May. It was the
dinner given to the Foreign Representatives at this man’s house which
furnished Signor Pestalozza with the material for the only amusing
article in the ill-fated _Mostakel_. Although he had worked very hard in
the French interest he managed to offend M. Roustan, and was degraded,
deprived of all his possessions, and detained in a dungeon at Gabes,
till he was liberated by the French shells.]
[Footnote 6: Appendix O.]
[Footnote 7: The counting of these columns is undoubtedly a puzzle. M.
Dulhoit, the intelligent director of the department of Historical
Monuments in Algeria, has made an elaborate plan of the Mosque. He says
the following is an entirely correct computation of the pillars:—
The court 497
Two minarets 16
Doors 30
Angles 4
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547
It is to be noted that some of the pillars are so placed as to be almost
invisible to the casual spectator.]
[Footnote 8: Knights of Malta, vol ii. p. 100.]
[Footnote 9: Bosio, iii. p. 349.]
[Footnote 10: M. Roustan’s confusion of mind and defects of memory
contributed very greatly to his ultimate discomfiture. He denied that
Musalli was appointed as Director of the Tunisian Foreign Office. I
find, however, the following entry in the Official Calendar for 1882.
QUATRIÈME SECTION.
_Affaires Etrangères._
Le Commandeur, M. Théodore Roustan, Ministre résident de France, délégué
du Gouvernement Tunisien pour les affaires Etrangères.
Le Général Elias Musalli, Directeur et 1ier Interprète de S. A. le Bey,
G.O.If., Commandeur de la Legion d’Honneur.
He also professed to know nothing of Musalli’s advancement in the Legion
of Honour, although he had twice recommended him for promotion, and only
five months before obtained him the rank of commander.]
[Footnote 11: I cannot resist translating the preamble, which is a
unique specimen of the most approved style of Oriental diplomatic
writing.]
Transcriber's note:
Changes in the CORRIGENDA have been done.
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