Excerpt from Travels in Tunisia: With a Glossary, a Map, a Bibliography, and Fifty Illustrations
The question, nevertheless, arises, whether, with the present facilities for locomotion, there is sufficient mason d’ ’tre for books of Voyages and Travels.’ Guide-books will always be in request, but ‘incidents of Travel, ’ Pencillings by the Way, ’ Sunny Memories, ’ or Letters’ from this or that country, would seem to belong to a previous generation. The pleasure, however, of noting observations from day to day, with a modest hope that the record of personal experiences may be of some value to other travellers, especially in a country so little visited as Tunisia, at any rate by Englishmen, is the only excuse we can offer for the present volume.
The coast towns of Tunisia are now as accessible, owing to an excellent line of steamers, ’ as any others on the northern shores of the Mediterranean. Since the French occupation, good order, and a feeling of perfect security (the results of strong government), prevail in every part of the Regency. Where formerly were extor tion, delay, and inconvenience, especially at the ports, there is now a regular tariff, and every facility for landing with comfort. Beggars, except in holy Kairouan.
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