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Pilgrims returning to Algeria from Mecca

Pilgrims returning to Algeria from Mecca, having undertaking the Hajj, the pilgrimage every able-bodied Muslim is required to undertake at least once in their lifetime. There is a tale of a poor Turkish Dervish, who unable to afford the cost of undertaking pilgrimage, expressed his woes to his sheykh, who informed him he need only "walk around me" and his duty would be achieved

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Tuareg Girl from the Hoggar Mountains, Algeria

Tuareg Girl from the Hoggar Mountains, Algeria. Taken during the expedition led by Captain Angus Buchanan to the Sahel region of the Sahara in 1922-23. A film shot during the expedition, Crossing the Great Sahara, records the 3500 mile journey, which began in Kano, in Northern Nigeria early in 1922 and ended in Tougourt, Algeria in April 1923. Buchanan had previously led an expedition into the Sahara in 1919-1920. Date: circa 1922

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Black Powderpuff -Podaxis pistillaris-, wild mushroom growing in the desert of Adrar Tekemberet, Immidir, Algeria, Sahara, North Africa

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