Identifier: travelsinatlasso00thom (find matches)
Title: Travels in the Atlas and southern Morocco. A narrative of exploration
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Thomson, Joseph, 1858-1895
Subjects: Morocco -- Description and travel Atlas Mountains
Publisher: New York : Longmans, Green, and co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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e to the air. In this charming retreat we were thoroughly shutoff from the outside world by a high blank wall whichsurrounded the garden; so thoroughly shut off, in fact,that, for anything we saw or heard, we might havebeen anywhere but in the heart of a city with throng-ing thousands. As we sated our eyes on our surroundings, andnoticed with no great relish the care taken of ourperson by the Kaid, as shown in the numerous soldierswho kept watch and ward over every door and cornerof the place, we could not but admit that this was byno means a disagreeable variation in our life. Under the circumstances we did our best to rise to the situation and receive our visitors with the courtesyand dignity expected of those who travelled under theprotection of the Sultan. We first gave audience to the chamberlain of the Kaid, who bubbled over withrenewed welcomes on the part of his master, while wetried to keep pace with him in thanks and hopes thatAllah would bless and reward him accordinof to his
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MARAKSII, OR CITY OF MOROCCO. 129 deserts. The Kaid, however, did not merely sendconiplimentary phrases. These were substantiallybacked up by an abundant uiona. There were menbearing from him sheep and fowls, loaves of sugar andgreen tea, great bowls of milk, and baskets of orangesand dates. Eggs, too, there were, and vegetables, withhuge dishes of cooked food for the men, and abundanceof barley and straw for the horses and mules. Everything was in proportion to the Kaids dignity,not to our actual wants, for there was suflicient tohave fed lifty meu. We were careful to preserve a stolid demeanour, asif this was only what we had a right to expect, con-sidering our social status. Our mornings levee over, we were anxious to hurryoff to explore the town. Our hopes were high of seeing something to instructand delight us; for was not Morocco a city with ahistory, a city which luxd been the residence of sultans,and the theatre of civil wars and sieges ! Its veryname—the City of Morocco—t

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