 | Clemens Lamping - Algeria - 1845 - 200 pages
...and drive the Christians out of Algiers, Oran and Bona: if, indeed, you were content with those three cities I would suffer you to remain there, for the...leave your own country to come and take that in which Mahomed has placed his people. But your Sultan is not a saint and a horseman as I am, and your horses... | |
 | Charles Dickens - French - 1880 - 422 pages
...were content with those three cities I would suffer you to remain there, for the sea is not mine and l have no ships ; but you want our plains and our inland...our women, and you leave your own country to come ami take that in which Mahomed has placed his people. But your Sultan is not a saint and a horseman... | |
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... gather together the tribes in this place, where we shall be secure from the attacks of the French, and when all my forces are collected I will descend from this steep rock like a vulture from his nest, and drive the Christians out of Algiers, Oran... 