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    MAMA MARABOUT, AND OTHER ALGERIAN WOMEN....

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    were very grateful , and always ready to work for - tlie Sisters , and to give them eggs or butteror anything thethought acceptable .

    She said if she met an Arab , woman , who had y been in the hospital , she would throw herself into her arms and kiss herwith cries of

    joy and " Mama Marabout . " The men too are very , affectionate , andat the same timealways reverential . ThistooI know from

    other , Sisters . One mother , of a conventwhom , I knew , has travelled far into the interior , with only one , Sister , to visit , her little

    communities all over Algeria , from the borders of Tunis to the borders of Morocco , and has always been aided and assisted , with

    great kindness and respect , by the Arabs and Kabyies . At the Maison Carre e , which is used as the prison for the Arabs ,

    and is supposed to contain the most hardened , brutal set of criminals in Alg thing iers , for there the are prisoners now Sisters and have of St produced . Vincent a de great Paul change , who for do

    the every better , my friends assured , me . I have not visited this place , but have often seen gangs of these fellows walking out to work , with

    soldiers before and behind them armed to the teeth , and a worselooking set I never saw in lifeonly to be comparedI should

    thinkwith our own convicts my and garo , tters . , But , to return to our Sister . " Not only is she Le Commandant "

    said the head of the hospital , "but she has the management of , a of ings farm the . , and establishment She of has the cattle sch . ools She and , which has land a pay , are and ing all w sells ar in d the in the p same roduce hosp mass it al of t h p e build ay g ing ood

    boarding school , to give industrial training to the farmers' daug , hters , and daschools as well . " She can take two hundred patients into

    we her ather hosp y was ital , health but had y : and only thirty this -ei g m ht when ged we by were nine Sisters there , . as Th the ey

    have servants and novices , but , in fact , it is the nine Sisters who do all the work of the institution . The Sister told us this admirable establishment was entirely founded and owed everything to

    Monsieur le Commandant , who is the king of Marengo _; but he said it was entirely her work ; we decided that each was

    indispensable In , ' the and fever to both season the credit there due is . work h for the Sistersand enoug

    danger too ; for though the three Sisters we saw had healthy faces , , this lace is unwholesome ; and we did not speak to one

    pvery person mothers who had had not lost had all the their fever , children and some almos over t all and some over b again this . Many y

    terrible scourge . Many of the houses have , been emptied more , than once been depopulated by death , and three there or four are times villages by fever near . Marengo which have

    Yet civilization , cultivation and population , year by year , win more and more land from the enemy ; and there is no doubt that all this fertile lain willby and bybeas it was in the old times

    the seat of numerous p and , prosperous , , towns , and waving corn- , ftelds .

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    Mama Marabout, And Other Algerian Women....

    MAMA MARABOUT , AND OTHER ALGERIAN WOMEN . 409

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 2, 1863, page 409, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02021863/page/49/