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shops. The walls of the city are weh worthy of
attention; at the time we visited Mazagan there
was a garrison of the Sultan's soidiers, a hetero-
geneous body of men, dressed in oid scarlet tunics
and baggy blue or khaki-coioured cotton drawers
or breeches. I can say notbing about the hoteis
in this piace, as we were oniy here two days and
went on board the steamer at night.
Mogador, the picture city, is the place most
prominent in my mind's eye as I write, for here
we stayed some considerabie time and got to
know it and its interesting inhabitants weii. Here,
at last, one is aimost free from everything Euro-
pean. Here life is more primitive, and the easy-
going native basks in his almost eternal sunshine.
He is never in a hurry, though aiways busy, and
ioves to iinger over his bargaining, sipping his
green tea and lounging in his shady cupboard-iike
shop. Here are gathered in picturesque variety
representative types of every one of the numerous
North African tribes. The weaith of coiour is
nrarvelious. Here men of the desert tribes from
Timbuctoo and other remote piaces, Berbers from
the Atias, and from Sris and
Wadnoon; ebony-faced Nu-
bian siaves, negro musicians,
Arabs from the country in
tattered brown jeiiabs, are
mixed up in bewiidering con-
fusion with the rich town
Moors in costiy and voiu-
minous garments, and the
black-robed Jews, all laugh-
ing, shouting, gesticulating,
quarrelling and sometimes
hghting. Almost every man
and boy is armed with a long,
curved dagger of peculiar form,
mostly decorated with silver,
ivory and sometimes enamels.
Many carry long - barrelled,
flint-Iock muskets of the usual
Arab type; these are also
mounted in a rich manner
with bands of silver and ivory.
Strings of heavily-Iaden camels
constantly pass in and out of
the town, with mules and
donkeys galore, staggering
under bales of merchandise.
Here also are graceful Arab
horses and powerful Barbs.
From early morning to sun-
down the town is a busy hive

of industry, and here almost every article of a
Moorish character is to be seen in process of
manufacture.
In Mogador most trades have special quarters
set apart for them. For instance, there is a
street of blacksmiths, where the brawny, muscular
Nubian slaves can be seen beatitig out the
hot metal; a jewellers' street, where all kinds
of silver and gold ornaments of elaborate and
intricate workmanship are being made by skilful
workers; an armourers' and gunsmiths' street,
where weapons are fashioned on the ancient plan ;
for in Morocco the old pattern flint-Iock muskets
of prodigious length of barrel and beautiful shape
and Anish are still used. Here, also, the curious
daggers named above are to be seen in the
making, though some of the hnest come from the
Shs country, and in addition to these are beautiful
powder horns, pistols, swords and other weapons.
Highly ornamental coloured and woven leather
bullet pouches will also be found here. Further
on is a street of eating-houses and bread-sellers,
and close by a picturesque quarter where little




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