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| | Off on a Comet: Part One: Chapter I |
 | | The scene, as here depicted, took place upon the extremity of a little cape on the Algerian coast, between Mostaganem and Tenes, about two miles from the mouth of the Shelif. |
 | | At that date, Mostaganem contained about fifteen thousand inhabitants, three thousand of whom were French. |
 | | For the last fortnight Servadac had not been occupying his proper lodgings in the military quarters; having been appointed to make a local levy, he had been living in a gourbi, or native hut, on the Mostaganem coast, between four and five miles from the Shelif. |
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