LE MINARET DE MANSOURA

Un roi de Soudan envahit la province de l'Ouest, et vint mettre le siège devant la ville de Tlemcen. Mais les habitants de cette ville étaient très courageux, et ils se défendirent bravement. Le roi envoya chercher

plus de troupes, et le camp des assiégeants finit par

1 An Arabian legend. Soudan is south of the Sahara, or Great Désert, in Africa. Mansoora is the name of a town in Egypt, about thirty miles from Daniietta, and also of a town in Algeria. From Mahomet's flight from Mecca in 622 a.d. the Mahometans compute time, as the Christians do from the birth of Christ. The Turkish year begins on the 15th of July. The flight or émigration of Mahomet is called the Hegira.

The Turks hâve a particular hatred for the Jews, because they refuse to recognize Mahomet as a prophet, and do not consider the „ Koran (the Mahometan Bible) an inspired book.