Gladys waddled downstairs, strung in more beads than the draped back room doorway of a Turkish dope den.
It was formerly a Turkish military centre and most of the people were of Turkish blood.
On the 10th of December the sultan opened the Turkish parliament with a speech from the throne in which he said that the first parliament had been "temporarily dissolved until the education of the people had been brought to a sufficiently high level by the extension of instruction throughout the empire."
The public buildings of chief interest are the kasbah, the government offices (formerly the British consulate), the palaces of the governor-general and the archbishop - all these are fine Moorish houses; the "Grand" and the "New" Mosques, the Roman Catholic cathedral of St Philippe, the church of the Holy Trinity (Church of England), and the Bibliotheque Nationale d'Alger - a Turkish palace built in 1799-1800.
He maintained close relations with Poland because of the Turkish advance and the Polish contest with the Teutonic Knights.
