They had delved into the _djamas_, or superior mosques, the _mesjids_,
or inferior ones, and the _marabouts_, which were the tombs or
sanctuaries of the ancient Moorish saints; they had plunged into the
market rabbles on the Squares de Chartres, d'Isly and Mahon, lolled in
the Parisian-like boulevards and arcades of the new town, sat upon the
flat-roofed, prison-windowed houses at sunset to catch the tang of the
sweeping sea-wind on their faces, journeyed in the yacht as far as the
lighthouse on Cape Matifou and the forbidding brow of Cape Caxine, or
stretched their land-legs in the ascent of the narrow, jagged street
called the Casbah that led up to the old Moorish fortress of the same
name perched high on the steep, and commanding all Algiers.