The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1882-03-15
LIFE IN A LAZY LAND.
Travel In hIOrocco-Its Discomforts, Do
lays and Amusements.

Visitors to Morocco find the country and
Its people marvelously strange and fresh.
Theirs "are the rain and the sunshine and
the ways of an old wisdom by our world
forgot" Nowhere can a man be more con-
scious of the mere JOY of living; nowhere
be more impressed with the vanity and te-
dunn ofmuch that European civilization con-
siders indispensable to the interest of life.
From the hour You set your foot in the
country the present moment seems so full
of delight that there is but the smallest de-
sire to project life into anticipation. Time
ceases to exist, or at least to be of any ac-
count. 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 q town in the interior;
you have fixed the day for starting-after
having found that it must not be Tuesday,
or Tetsa feletsa" e. on the third day all
fails u nor on Friday for that is their
Sabbath-you have been promised guides
and mules by such time; but do not ex-
pect them there, they will not come. You
go to the man with whom you have made
arrangements; he is probably doing moth
ing, and he has probably nothing to say in
answer to your complaint but Please AL
lah, tomorrow" Yet if you manage to set
out on the third day, or before the week
has run out, you will have been treated
fairly well. They mean no neglect or disre-
spect; it is only their "0ld World way.
Hence their proverb "Once over the
threshold the journeys half DONE"
For travelling, there are, of course, neith-
er carriages nor roads. The roads, SO called
are only locations of mule and camel
tracks. Till within two or three years ago
there was not a single wheeled vehicle in
Morocco. but now there are known to be
two. The one is yellow antediluvian gig,
which the Sultan has procured somehow or
other, and which figured some time ago in
a state procession, to the establishment and
delight of the spectators. The other is a
wheelbarow, which gentleman recently
took to Mogador, and of which the stalwart
Moor to whom it was consigned so little sur.
missed the use, that when he had filed il
with mortar, according to instructions, he
promptly shouldered it and strobe of. TRAY
cling on nuleback, however, in the large,
well-padded saddles of the country with stir.
rup-like slippers, is no great hardship to
either man or woman, and the way is con.
stantly beguiled by some fresh illustration
of Moorish life and manners; company
of noisy country folk going to or coming
from market; troop of horsemen dashing
past, with flowing white jelabs; the ghostly
looking, silent cayalcade Of Arab Shieks OF
the plains and haraem, swathed from view,
all but, perhaps, one lastrous eye the as
tonished rustic girl, who hides her face, bu
not her legs, or the toilsome, almost naked
peasant dawdling along behind his abor
iginal pillow. A goat aud donkey may
often be seen yoked together, and woman
has been in the place of the goat but what
ever the team, the blowing is the same-i
mere scoring Of the scotland yet it bring,
forth in abundance. --PaH Nal Gazette.