Life in Tripoli

George E Thompson set out for Tripoli 17th March 1893...carrying a number of erroneous ideas formed from his reading of accounts of the region - accounts vastly inferior to the one with which he was ultimately to present us. Anyone who has trodden the ordinary beaten tracks of the tourist, and who sighs for more worlds to conquer, will meet with a phase of life that is new to him among the palm trees and Arabs of Tripoli in Barbary.