The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-02-15
In Morocco.


towns, is walled by high stone walls,
and defended by towers erected at in
tervals along them. Outside the city one
enters directly upon the country, there
being no suburbs, unless the village of
lepers can be called one-and grue-
some suburb it is Within the walls
the houses are low and the streets mar
row; on every side one sees desolation
and ruin, very different from the flour
ishing northern capital of Fee; nor, as
In Fee, does one see, except few and
far between, little pieces of exquisite
wood or arabes1ue work in plaster.
The southwesterly part of the town, as
in London, is the fashionable quarter
and there are the palaces and gardens
of the Sultan, his ministers, and OF
most of the rich Moors; while to the
north and east lies the commercial
quarter dense maze of narrow, dirty
streets and booths. Not far from our
palace was small sok, or market
place, and here we often went in the
hope of picking up curiosities; but, ex-
cept for few curious pieces of pottery,
we got nothing there. Far finer was
the Sok-el- Khemis, or Friday market,
held outside the Bah Dukala. Here
one could see every variety of native,
manufacture. In one corner would be
sitting a group of fierce-looking mount
aineers, selling silver da2 gers and long,
inlaid guns; In another group OF
women with a gorgeous-tinted carpet,
worked in some country villsge and
brought in for sale. Here straw baskets
lay piled one on tip of the other in
great heaps, and there gorgeous-colored
kuftans were causing a little crowd of
admirers. Under the shade of tent
the barber was bleeding a Moor, while,
next to him, another Moor was having
his head shaved. In the center Of a
circle q performing ape was going
through its varied tricks, while the
Understanding pipes besp oke the pres
ence of q snake-charmer. Everywhere
something new and something noisy
for the Moors are shouting, and gesticu
lating. fighting and laughing, just as if
the success of the whole market de-
pended upon the noise they made, add
ed to VIII ch there was the constant
jingle of the water carriers Bell and
his shrill cry of al ma'-"Water."
Near this market, and on the same day,
WAS CdTTleu Ou tHc hOl5c hDu dulIidl
sale, where long-robed Moors were gal
Looping the sturdy little Barb horses
up and down the long open space to
show Their PAGES, and where the wild
Berber from the noun tains, noticeable
anywhere from his scarcity of rament,
was trying to sell o couple of small
Moorish donkeys. Camels, mules,
horses, donkeys, goats, sheep, oxen
all kinds and varieties of animals
could be bought there. Nor were the
streets less interesting than the mar
kets though one did not see such va
riety all at once, as usually all the
shops in one street sell one kind of
merchandise, so that if one wants to
buy shoes one goes to the street of
shoes to get them, and there one las
endless varieties to choose from. Many
shops, however, have arrived at the
civilized state of selling more than one
article, and in them one can see ex
posed to view many ] nglish and
French manufactures. In fact, the
sight that most surprises one on arriv-
ing in these Eastern cities is the inn
mense quantity of imports exposed for
sale. Linen, colored handkerchiefs,
matches, scented soaps, perfumes,
looking-glass, candles and be ads are
perhaps the most common, while the
whole of the tea of the country-and
the Moors drinS scarcely anything else
is imported from Europe.