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Barbary Sojourn Describes Tunisian Customs and Prisons
A traveler visits Tunis and Tans with the French Consul, detailing Moorish meals of buttered rice, water-borne boats, and harsh slave guard baths. He notes grand baronial courtyards, marble galleries, and Crescent arches, then laments guards, thumbed walls, and ruins amid a Barbary townscape.
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Biferta
Goleta
Tunis
Barbary
Tans
Levant
Holy Trofs
Tripoly
Bajfa’s
Don. John
Aga
Ramadam