A few months ago, in executing some repairs outside the Mosque, a tablet was discovered and sent to Tunis. It is now in the possession of Mr. Reade, Her Britannic Majesty’s Agent and Consul-General, and bears the following inscription:— DEO PLUTONI SACR : PRO SALU TE DDDD. NNNN. DEOCLETIA NI ET MAXIMIANI ET COSTANTI ET MAXIMIANI NOB·LISIMI CAESSSS CO TEMPULUM PLUT·NIS LABSUM ET DEDICATUM PER INSTANTIA FELICI CAELI FORTUNATI ET . . . ONI . . . ARSVN . . . IS . . . FD· JUB·L. ET FORTVNATVS ALIQU . . . TIS A·CARIUS· ET . . . IN·PO ET MAIEST CURA. During the days I spent at Kairwán, I visited nearly every public building in the place, as well as those _extra muros_; but only about six of these edifices merit particular description. Many of the lesser tombs and _zaouias_ are absolutely in ruins. There are sixty-three mosques and over 100 sanctuaries in and around the city, including the three _zaouias_ or college-monasteries of the Kádria, Tijánia, and Aïssaouia sects. Close to the Great Mosque is the headquarters of the brotherhood of Sidi Abd el Kádir el Ghiláni. It consists of a lofty cupola, and the usual entrance-hall and cloister of marble columns and arches leading to a number of conventual cells. The great door is covered with copper. The principal apartment is lighted by stained-glass windows. The chief inhabitants of Kairwán all belong to this association, which, having its headquarters at Baghdad, exercises considerable influence throughout Islam. The Kádria have always opposed French aggression; the Emir Abd el Kádir himself was one of their most zealous sectaries; and it was in this _zaouia_ that, after long and serious discussions, the hopelessness of a defence was fully realised, and the chiefs of the warlike tribes of the south, still true to the traditions of their faith, were entreated to depart to save the sacred monuments of Kairwán from inevitable destruction. Leaving the Zaouia Kádria, a short walk brought us to a remarkable building in the centre of the town—the Djáma Bou Thetha Bou Bibán (the Mosque of the Three Doors). The exterior of this edifice is thus accurately described by Mr. Rae:— It has a plain façade, with a triple gateway, the arches of which are supported by marble columns. . . . Its chief feature is the rare old carved stonework, which gives it the air of the front of a fine old Crusaders’ church. It runs above and about the arches, extending across the front in broad bands of successive text and ornament, in solid, deep, beautiful chiselling: first a line of running foliage two feet in depth; then a band of Kufic or early Arabic characters free and bold; then a row of alternate panels of carvings, each containing a single rose or a leaf pattern; then text and carvings alternately; and finally, the mouldings and corbels of the cornice.