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| | Workman: Algerian Memories |
 | | Besides the oasis of Biskra, comparatively in the foreground, a number of others were visible, the dark colour of which, contrasting with the lighter hues of the plain, gave the leopard-skin appearance which has been mentioned in connection with this view. |
 | | The hotels of Biskra are neither very bad nor very good, but the days when the romantic German tourist sat alone in the Moorish dining-room of the Hotel de Sahara, served by silent-footed, sad-eyed Biskris in national costume, are unhappily at an end. |
 | | The houses of French Biskra, like those of other Ziban towns, are built of sun-dried bricks made from a sticky clay of this region mixed with chopped straw, are low, of at most two storeys, and generally placed over arcades. |
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