Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-12-01
LIFE INA LAZY LAND.
Travel in Mor.ccO It's DiscOmf forts
Delays and Amusements
Pail Mall Gazette.

Visitors To Morocco find the country
and its people marvelously strange and
fresh Theirs ''are the rain and sun
shine and the ways Of an old wisdom
by our world forgot" Nowhere can
man be more conscious of the mere
JOY OF living; nowhere be more inn
pressed with the vanity and tedium of
much that European civilization CON
siders indispensable to the interest of
HE. From the hour you set foot in
the country the present moment seems
so full of delight that there is but the
smallest desire to project life into an
ticlpatlon Time ceases to exist, or at
least to be OF any account 1t must be
admitted. however, that the disposition
OF everybody in this lazy, lotus-eating
land TO act on this is at times little
troublesome. You have arranged to
make an excursion to town in the in
terror; you have fixed the day for start
ing-aiter having found that it must
not be Tuesday, for "72stsa teietsa"
"or the third day all fails nor on a
Friday, for that is 'heir Sabbath-you
have been PROMISE. guides and mules
by such a time; but do not expect them
there, they will not come. You go to
the man with whom you have made
arrangements; he is probably doing
nothing, and he has probably nothing
To say in answer to your complaint but
please, Allah, Tomorrow Yet il
you managed to set out on the third
day, or before the week has run out,
you will have been treated fairly we'll
they mean no neglect or disrespect; it
IS only their ''old- world" way. Hence
their proverb, "Once over the threshold
the journeys half done"
For travelling there are, of course,
neither carriages nor roads; the roads
so-oalled are only collections of mule
and camel tracks. Till within tw, or
three years ago there was not single
wheeled vehicle in Morocco, but now
there are known to be two: the one Is
a yellow antediluyian gig, which the
Sultan has procured somehow or other,
and which figured sometime ago in "A
state procession, to the astonishment
and delight Of the spectators; the other
is wheebarrow which a gentleman
recently took to Mogador, and of which
the stalwart Moor to whom it was con-
signed SO little surmised the use, that
when he had filled it with moran nc
cordlng to instructions, he promptly
shouldered it and strobe OIL Travel
ing on mules back, however, in the
large, well'padded saddles of the coun-
try, with stirrups like slippers, is no
great hardship To either man or wo-
man, and the way s constantly be-
guiled 10y some fresh illustration of
Moorish life and manners; u company
OF noisy country folks going to or COM
ing from market; troop of horsemen
dashing past, with flowing white jelabs;
the ghostly looking, silent cavalcade of
an Arab Shiek of the plains and his
harem, one lustrous eye; the astonished
rustic girl, who hides her face, but not
her legs, or the toilsome, almost naked,
peasaNt dwadling along behind his
aboriginal pillow. A goat and donkey
may often be seen yoked together, and
| n woman has been seen IN the place of
the goat; but whatever the team, the
| plowing is always the same--a mere
scoring of the soil--and yet it brings
forth in abundance.