Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-08

| Iunls and Tangier are not to be COM
pared. They are us unlike each other as
Gibraltar is unlike both. Tunis is richer
more varied, more animated than Tangier.
The costumes are more elegant and the
colors more beautiful. The mixture OF
races Is more picturesque, and, in spite OF
the influx of the French, the whole thing
is more complete. Perhaps artists would
prefer 1angier. Finding, as so many do,
their chief materials in dirt and rags, the
beauty Of orderliness and cleanliness is
that for which they have but scant ad-
miration. All, therefore, who love the
rich brown tones of dirt and the crunhling
surfaces of neglect and decay-to whom
the unsymmetrical arrangement of rags is
beautiful, and who prefer group of un-
washed peasants sitting on their heels in
the mud Of an uncleansed market place.
without stalls or shelter, and in friendly
association with camels, mules and horses.
/ to any other combination of men and
things-all these will find an inexhaustible
mine IN 1angier. And they will find little
else. Save the owners of the few GOOD
| shops i'll the small town-witness that ex-
quisitely draped old man in his filmv bur
nous over his more substantial BODY gar
mentS, all OF snowy white-there is not a
well-dressed persons to be seen Riffs. with
! their bare brown legs and their one cover
ing OF coarse brown sackcloth negro
slaves, close-shaven, bareheaded, and also
in one brown sack for all other covering I:
peasants, who are amorphous bundles of
fringed rags, crowned with huge straw
hats, battered and torn, and more like our
| field scarecrows than living human beings ::
the very poorest Arabs in the very poorest
haiks-these take the place of the military
Pashas in their orders and gold-iaced uni
forms the portly Beys in dark blue and
! striped yellow-in strong red and compen-
sating green the sleek young Abdallahs in
salmon color and pale blue; the handsome
Zadoks in white with slight touches of SAT
from yellow here and there to relieve the
monotony; the oddly-dressed Jewish
women, unveiled, with their painted faces.
joined eyebrows, horned headdresses be-
meath their shawls, and the fat limbs of
maturity or the slender ones of maiden
hood cased in tight leggins-black for the
matron, white for the maid-visible to the
hip; the gaudy uniforms of the French
soldiers, all blue and red and yellow
whom one meets in the streets and bazaars
of Tunis. And that bazaar ITSELF with its
many -arched arcades and multitudinous
rabbit hutches rather than shops, where
the owner sits eross-legged among his
wares, all of which he can reach with his
hand without rising from his place, wait
ing in sleepy dignity for such customers as
Allah may think fit to sends i'll rep
resented by two or three Euro
peanized "Emporia," where you are not
worried to buy; whore they do not give
you coffee as an "arlespenny;" where
there is none of the fun Of bargaining
getting for 10 francs piece of stuff for
which the original sum asked was 90, and
where dozens persons and more may walk
about at their ease and look at the goods
at leisure. Still, Tangier has many things
of exceeding interest for the traveller, if
some are full of painful associatione-e. G.,
the prison and the heating place-to take
the most characterist;c.-['rh The Gentleman's
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