DOI Heft:
No. 259 (October 1914)
DOI Artikel:Rix Nicholas, Hilda: Sketching in Morocco: a letter from Miss Hilda Rix
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21211#0041
Sketching in Morocco
Oh ! such a buzz of strange tongues is coming take away the offending mass, at the same time
up on the breeze from the crowded Soko, and making great play with my bottles of smelling-salts
people of the hotel are entering the big gates in and eau-de-Cologne. He shrugged his shoulders
ones, twos, and threes, for the day is done. I must to show that such a thing meant nothing to him ;
follow the sun's example and go below, for I am but a kind inspiration dawned on him and he not
keen to make an early start at my work to-morrow, only removed the offensive heap but sent post-haste
Enthusiasm is a fine thing, but I wonder if for an incense burner, who, swinging his censer,
the general public realise what miseries an artist filled the tormented air with a delicious perfume,
has often to undergo. To-day I congratulated Having heard so much of the difficulties of
myself on occupying a fine strategic position—it working amongst the Arabs because of their
was on an elevation that raised me above the religious principles, I am delighted to find that
throng and there was a row of little shop's behind they do not look upon me as an enemy, and I am
that prevented me being ringed in by a curious happily overcoming their prejudices and continu-
crowd. But no sooner had I become deeply en- ally finding them doing little graceful acts,
grossed in my subject than
a man came and dumped
down beside me a revolt-
ing heap of animal offal.
It would have been un-
heroic to give up my
position because my sub-
ject was enthralling, but
oh, the horror of it! My
sister very kindly rushed
back to the hotel for eau-
de-Cologne and smelling-
salts to help me to endure
the situation.
One has to risk horrible
diseases quite often in the
East, for in the closely
pressing crowds there are
often visions of smallpox
and leprosy—people who
have lost noses and eyes
from some frightful
malady. Then there is
always the risk of sun-
stroke, or getting a chill
through staying in the
shade. It takes a lot of
moral and physical courage
and a vivid enthusiasm to
carry one through, but,
thank Heaven, the beauty
overpowers the discomfort
or nothing would be pro-
duced.
At last the blazing sun
beating on the offal made
the odour insufferable, so,
turning to the butcher who
had placed it there, I im-
, , , . . , "AN AFRICAN SLAVE WOMAN." FROM A DRAWING IN COLOURED CHALKS BY
plored him with signs to E. HILDA RIX
36
Oh ! such a buzz of strange tongues is coming take away the offending mass, at the same time
up on the breeze from the crowded Soko, and making great play with my bottles of smelling-salts
people of the hotel are entering the big gates in and eau-de-Cologne. He shrugged his shoulders
ones, twos, and threes, for the day is done. I must to show that such a thing meant nothing to him ;
follow the sun's example and go below, for I am but a kind inspiration dawned on him and he not
keen to make an early start at my work to-morrow, only removed the offensive heap but sent post-haste
Enthusiasm is a fine thing, but I wonder if for an incense burner, who, swinging his censer,
the general public realise what miseries an artist filled the tormented air with a delicious perfume,
has often to undergo. To-day I congratulated Having heard so much of the difficulties of
myself on occupying a fine strategic position—it working amongst the Arabs because of their
was on an elevation that raised me above the religious principles, I am delighted to find that
throng and there was a row of little shop's behind they do not look upon me as an enemy, and I am
that prevented me being ringed in by a curious happily overcoming their prejudices and continu-
crowd. But no sooner had I become deeply en- ally finding them doing little graceful acts,
grossed in my subject than
a man came and dumped
down beside me a revolt-
ing heap of animal offal.
It would have been un-
heroic to give up my
position because my sub-
ject was enthralling, but
oh, the horror of it! My
sister very kindly rushed
back to the hotel for eau-
de-Cologne and smelling-
salts to help me to endure
the situation.
One has to risk horrible
diseases quite often in the
East, for in the closely
pressing crowds there are
often visions of smallpox
and leprosy—people who
have lost noses and eyes
from some frightful
malady. Then there is
always the risk of sun-
stroke, or getting a chill
through staying in the
shade. It takes a lot of
moral and physical courage
and a vivid enthusiasm to
carry one through, but,
thank Heaven, the beauty
overpowers the discomfort
or nothing would be pro-
duced.
At last the blazing sun
beating on the offal made
the odour insufferable, so,
turning to the butcher who
had placed it there, I im-
, , , . . , "AN AFRICAN SLAVE WOMAN." FROM A DRAWING IN COLOURED CHALKS BY
plored him with signs to E. HILDA RIX
36