Damato (DDE 871) - Naval Cruise Book

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ALGIERS Algiers is not a city to be described, since the stealth and intrigue which is the essence of its atmosphere is not a tangible thing but is subtly suggestive of the ethereal. It is the usual North African city, highly cosmopolitan, and its modes of life, deeply sensuous. It has its Casbah and Medina, its Latin Quarter and its French Quarter and even in the absence of the tracks there still exists both sides; there is social register, there are nomads; there are princes, there are paupers; within its confines there are those so glorious- ly alive and it has its living dead . Algiers did not impress the writer as a nice place but rather as a market- place designed to enable the native to eke out an existence; designed to pro- vide in its seething mass of humanity an opportunity for the fleeing one to melt into the safe haven of obscurity and anonymity. . . . This to me is Al- giers. . . . Stealth. . . . Intrigue. THE QUARTERDECK -sf?3 HARBOR ENTRANCE I

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