Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1824-08-21

m0TSlNy are utSoTou Iu YOUR pToo0uco
by male orfomsle, knave or fool
MOCHA.
From Scenes and impressions in E..
gypt and in Italy, an interesting work
lately published in England, by the au-
thor of Sketches in India and Re-
collections of the Peninsufa.'
I'VE ran down upon Mocha, with .
full ssil Oh the following morning. The
town looked white and cheerful; the
houses are lofty, and have square, 90.
lid appearances, the road 10 slmost o
pen, being only protected by two mar
row spots of Sand, on one Of which 10
round castle, and On the other an insis-
nifcant fsrt. A date grove adjoins the
city, and extends nearly two miles a.
long the southern beach: pleasing
object for the eye to rePose upon, which
10 fatigued, if you gaze in any other d..
rection, by an unyaryihg picture OF
brown and desolate sterikty.
SO far from the sea ports of Arabia
and India resembling each other; to
the com monty observant eye The con.
trast 10 striking. You have tnrbans
and loose garments, but they are differ
ent both in fashion and materials. You
have brown and black compilations, you
have the clothed and the naked; but
they differ both in feature, form and
gesture, from those you have left be-
hind. Under the coarse awnings of the
narrow bazsars, you meet the we'll
dressed merchant in robes of wooden
cloth; and from above the folds Of the
snow white turbsn, you zee red wool.
en- cap, with tassel Of purple silk
, Atevery step you meet the black, the
hslf.naked Abyssinian, strait 81 the
young Arecs, with nose sufficiently
prominent to give expressions to his
features, and having his curled woody
hair dyed with q reddish yellow. toe
foppery Of his country. Then there is
the stout Arab porter. 10 his coarse
brown garment, and bowiDg under a
heavy load of dates, the mating all
oozing, and clam my with the luscious
burden. Lastly, you have the Bedou.
in, with the hue Of the desert on his
cheek, the sinewy limb. the eye dark
and fiery. He hath small turban, .
closs. bodied vest, a coarse sash, all of
dull colors; the arms and legs are bare:
the brown bosom open to the sun and
wind: sandals on his feet, O broad
straight two edg sword in his hand !;
long and ready poiDard in his girdle.
For a cold nigh; wind he has cloak of
goats hair, OF black or white, or made
in long broad stripes of both colors.--
He walks erect and moves directly to
his front, giving place to none. Though
every where surrounded by Turkish or
Persian despots, nay though there be
towns, and imaums and dowlabs, in A
rabia itself, he looks. and be can boast,
that he 10 personally free. Ideal is the
happiness of savage life; bot it is i'm.
possible to look, without admiriDg won
der; on men who contentedly proclaim
the sandy plain and naked rock their
patrimoDy, have DO dwelling but the
tent, no intrenchment but the sword, no
law but the Evolutionary song of their
bards, no government but the aged
scheik of their tribes. When con.
tract this their noble preference Of a
solitary and savage Independence, with
the life led by those who slumber under
Turkish masters in cities, always pol.
luted by crime, and often disturbed by
terror, with much to pity in their con.
dition, and much to condemn 10 their
conduct; l find every thing to admire
in their choice