The Osceola times., 1882-01-14
Try Morocco.
Pail Mall Gazette.

Visitors to Morocco find the country
aud its people marvelously strange and
resh. Theirs "are the rain and sunshine
and the ways OF an old wisdom by our
world forgot" Nowhere can man be
more conscious of the mere Joy of liv-
ing; nowhere be more impressed with
the vanity and tedium of much that En-
ropean civilization considers indispensa
BILE to the interest of life. From the
hour you set foot in the country the
present moment seems 50 full of delight
| that there is but the smallest desire h.
| prolet { life into anticip ition. Time
ceases TO exists, or at least to be of any
account. II must be admitted, however,
that the disposition of rybOdy in this
azy, lotus eating land to act on this is at
| times q little troublesome. You have
arranged TO make an excursion to a
town in the interior; you have fixed the
! day for starting-aiterh having found that
il must not be a Tuesday, for "Tietsa
| feletso" t"on the third day all fails");
| nor on a Friday for that is their Sab
bath-ydu have been promised 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 do
ing nothing, and he has probably moth
ing TO saw in answer to your complaint
but Please, Allah, tomorrow" Yet il
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 disrespect; it is only
their 'old world wav. Hence their
uroverb, "Once over the threshold the
| journeys half done. For travelling
! there are of course, neither carriages
nor roads; the roads soralled are only
collocations of mules and camel tracks
Till within two or three years ago there
was not a single whe led vehicle in Mo
rocco; but now there are known to be
| two-the one il a yellow, antediuvian
gig. which the sultan has procured some
how or other, and which figured some
| time ago in state procession, to the as
! constituent and delight Of the spectators;
the other is a wheelbarrow which gen
tleman recently took to Mogador and f
which the stalwart Moor toswhom it was
consigned so little surmised the use that
VIII N he had filed it with mortar ac-
cording to Instructions, he promptly
shOudered il and strobe off. Travelling
on mule back, however, in the large,
wei padue Stuules Oi tit COUNTY, WIZ
stirrups ike slippers, is no great hard
ship to either man or woman, aud the
way is constantly beguiled by some
fresh illustration of Moorish life and
manners; a company of noisy country
folk going to or coming from market; a
troop of horsemen dashing past, with
flowing white jelabs; the ghosty look
ing, silent Cavalcade of an Arab sheik of
the plains, and his harem, swathed from
view-all but, perhaps, one lustrous eve;
| the stonished rustic girl, who hides heI
| face but not her legs; or the toilsome
! almost naked peasant dawdling along
behind his aboriginal plough. A goat
and a donkey may often be seen yoked
together, and woman has been seen in
the place Of the goat but whatever the
team, the ploughing is always the same
"a mere securing of the soil; and yet II
brings forth in abundance.