ALGERIA

[s. 33] : A lying on colony of France in North the Mediterranean between Morocco on the west and Tunis on the east, indefinitely bounded on the south by the Sahara. It has an area of about 184,474 square miles, and a population of 4,739,931 (1901). Of this the French population numbers 292,464, the Jews 57,132, Tunisians and Morocco ans 26,266, Spaniards 155,265, Italians 38,791, and about The Algerian Sahara 25,000 other foreigners. contains about 125,000 square miles and has about 50,000 inhabitants. The native population is wholly Mohammedan, and consists mainly of Berbers (75 per cent.) and Arabs (15 per cent.). The Roman Catholic Church has 2 bishops and 386 priests. There are in the colony 21 Protestant pastors and 7 Jewish Rabbis. Government grants to the religious establishments are shared by the Protestants in proportion to their numbers. Oran, Algiers and Const an tine are the capitals, respectively, of the three districts of the same names into which the colony is divided. Laws of the colony protecting Mohammedanism as the prevaiHng religion restrict Christian mi ionary effort in Algeria. The Protestant mi ionary societies laboring there are the French Society for the Evangelization of the Jews, the Penny Collection Fund for Israel, the Algiers Spanish Mi ion, Mi Trotter’s Mi ion, and the Swedish Mi ionary Society, the Four central towns are the field occuthe PB. pied by these Societies. Africa, NAM Atterbury, Islam in Africa, New York, 1899; Bridge man, Winters in Algeria, New York, 1899; SomerviUe, Sands of Wilkin, Among the Berbers of Sahara, London, 1901; Algeria, London, 1900. 33