To close we go right back to the start of migration, and to prehistoric man.
Now he was happy enough crawling about on all fours within a short distance from his cave, and then, somehow, he learned to stand upright. At about the same time, along came ambition.
That led him to travelling further distances, and, eventually, to the edge of the hard surface that he could walk on and to the start of something wet and cold that shifted shape about his feet. I think that there must have to have been more land, within his sight, but across that water, giving him the idea of something to aim at, the spur of something else he needed to explore.
He could not walk far on the water though, he sank in, and it was perhaps cold and unpleasant. He may have tried to swim, or flounder, but with little success. Then he sat on a log and thought, and probably, some time later, as he shifted position and ended up with one leg on each side of the log, maybe I could sit on here, and propel it by splashing my feet and arms.
It probably worked, a bit, but he got tired, and let the log float back into the shore. We do not know when he came up with the idea of using branches as propulsion, but it was the obvious choice. And so one day, he woke up, and paddled across, and so became the first person ever to migrate to a new land.
The image on this card shows a later development, for he is standing, upright, and he has a larger raft, logs lashed together with reeds. He also has a companion, and a wife and child. and, to spare the blushes of the consumer at the time the card was issued, they have somehow found clothes from somewhere.
As far as "La Kabiline" it looks like it was a trademark. We do know that the product was a dye, and that each shade cost forty centimes; in addition the dyeing process was easy and fast, only taking twenty minutes. However I have been unable to find a company name. I have an address, but from the late 1940s, that is 64 - 73, Rue des Chantiers, Versailles. This makes the period of operation from at least 1895 until 1948, quite a time to have left such a little trace.