Journal of the Annamalai University. March 1949

With the dawn of the present century a visit to the southern coast of Mediterranean has become a popular feature of the tourists' itinerary ; and at the present moment Tunisia is in the foreground of everybody's attention The culture of Tunisia goes back to the days of its occupation by the Phoenicians ; and the rise and fall of their famous settlement at Carthage almost occupying the area of mode [...] VII THE AGE OF THE CORSAIRS--PIRACY RAMPANT The tradition is that the first great pirate chiefs of Tunisia were the Brothers — harbarossa Uruj and Kheyr-ed-din — who were the " last as well as the least creditable of the gifts of Lesbos to the world. [...] But the latter could not survive in power for more than three years; and in 1911 a French expedition occupied Fez and Rabat liberated the feeble Sultan from the hold of his army ; and in spite of German bluff in the shape of the despatch of the Cruiser Panther to Agadir ostensibly for the protection of the German Nationals France contrived to secure the right of complete liberty of action in [...] Apart from the material effect of 1.'rencli and Italian rule in these countries in the shape of economic development increasing population and the imposition of a veneer of European life in the towns one good result of the European hold has been the unearthing of the Graeco-Roman remains of art. [...] The outcome of the present struggle in the eventual victory of Britain America and the Free French will it is hoped ease the violence of the reaction and pave the way for a continuity of improvment in the life of Barbary.