ANOTHER VIEW, „ „ „ „ 161 THE TOMB OF SIDI-ES-SAHEB ENNABI, „ „ 178 INSCRIPTION ON THE TOMB OF JOHANNES ANTONIUS DE „ „ 204 PISCATORIBUS, MAINTENANT, IL NOUS FAUDRAIT, POUR BIEN _FARRE_, „ „ 292 UN PETIT COMMANDEMENT MILITAIRE, TUNIS PAST AND PRESENT. * * * * * CHAPTER XXV. A REVOLT IN THE CITY OF CUCUMBERS. In the middle of June M. Roustan was at Tunis busily engaged in advancing the interests of his friends and assuring M. Barthélémy Saint- Hilaire that “perfect tranquillity everywhere prevailed,” and that the prospects were _couleur de rose_ as regards the future. Mustapha was in Paris paving the way to his _Grand Cordon_ by profuse assurances of friendship, and the President of the Republic was as pleased with his diamond _ahad_, as the Minister of Foreign Affairs was with his diamond _nichán_. One incident alone troubled the mind of the young Premier, and that was the obstinate refusal of M. Gambetta to enter in any shape the exalted ranks of Tunisian chivalry. Not even the venerable emblem of the Hassanite family in brilliants could tempt the great Republican leader to bedeck himself with a Tunisian trophy. Just as the proprietors of the Grand Hotel were getting somewhat weary of their Oriental guests, and just as M. Saint-Hilaire was furthering “the mission of civilisation” by making Mustapha, the ex-barber’s apprentice, the colleague of half the sovereigns of Europe in the highest rank of the Legion of Honour, and was rewarding General Musalli for his complacency towards France and her Minister Resident by the cross of a Knight Commander, the Tunisian bubble burst in a moment, and Europe learned that French domination in Tunis meant the possession of the ground her soldiers stood on—and nothing more. I am now going to tell the history of the national rising in Southern Tunis, according to the journal kept by an eye-witness, Mr. William Galea, who holds the post of British Vice-Consul at Susa, but who happened to be at Sfax during the outbreak, and played an important part in the events of which he speaks. Mr. Galea begins his diary on the 23d June 1881, with an account of his journey by land from Susa to Sfax.