The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-01-03
PICTURESQUE TANeIER.
Sights aud Scenes to lie witnessed in No
Other City.

blKnLh anu ECcneh TO be Whtutbtu IN
other City.
Natives in many varieties Of costume
were wading backward and forward be-
tween the shore and the boats that had
brought the cargo from the vessels,
carrying bales and boxes, either piled
on their backs or poised on their heads,
to the Custom House.
Some wore loose cotton shirts and
wide trousers reaching only to the knee,
with white turbans or the Turkish fez
on their heads. Others were wrapped
in 'jellabiyas" (the native Moorish
cloak,) with its long peaked hood either
drawn carelessly up or hanging down
their backs, and all were barelegged.
The widest confusion appeared to pre-
vail-from q distant point Of view every
one seemed struggling to possess him
self OF what another had got hold OF,
and how any regularity could have
ensued as to payments twas impossible
to imagine; yet porterage on the shore
is q lucrative business, the men some-
times earning seven shillings or eight
shillings day. When could summon
resolution to leave the window l rang
lied forth to inspect the town.
The sky was cloudless, but the wind
was bitterly cold, and when we turned
into the streets, which were in shade,
we could have believed ourselves to be
in England on a November morning.
Winter clothing would have been thor
oughly acceptable, and we thought with
regret OF the thick coats and cloaks we
had left behind, under the mistaken i'm
preston that Tangier was all warmth
and glow. Picking our way through
the steep, narrow streets, however, left
us but little leisure to reflect even on
the cold. To keep ones feet and at the
same time to steer clear of the mixed
multitude of men and animals that
thronged the way, hustling and jostling
each other, and coming with an mad
vertent bump now and then against
ones self, occupied ones whole atten-
tion. Wretched-looking mules and don
keys overladen with wood stones, char
coal, grain, fruits, vegetables and every
sort of marketable produce met and
passed one continually, while the con-
stant cries of "Bahlak"-"Take care
lTOn DOUD DBulHu anu III lTOuG W6T6 DtT-
picking in the extreme.
All up the main street, on either side
the way, handsome Moors, many of
them perfect Othellos, either already at
work, or exhibiting their wares sat
cross-legged in their little bOx-like
shops, whose snug pent roofs sheltered
them from the outside glare the many
colored fabrics that we're exposed for
sale either piled in heaps right and left
or hanging in the doorway.
Leather work of all kinds abounded;
shoemakers were busy with brilliantly
dyed skins making gorgeous slippers
bright yellow, arsenic green, and Grim
son being the favorite colors, and leather
cushions, too, of all hues, were being
elaborately embroidered with bright
silks and gold and silver thread. In
other shops Jewish tailors were braid
ing robes of cloth and velvet, and
through the doors and windows of vari-
Gus bazars the most casual glances re-
vealed Moorish ornaments of quaint and
curious design. In the midst of all
these eastern surroundings one sud-
denly experienced the pleasurable sem
sation Of lone step nearer home" by
coming unexpectedly upon the English
post-oftice, and few doors more brought
us to a chemist, whose well-stocked
shop reassured one as to timely aid in
case of need.
Provision shops and general stores
presided over by Moors and Jews were
interspersed among the native haber-
dashers, and at the further end of the
street, near fine old Moorish gateway,
were numbers of little rickety tables,
so frail-looking that it was marvel
they were not continually overturned,
on which all manner of awful-looking
sweetmeats, that none surely but a
"heatben" could appreciate, were spread
out for sale. e.-Temple Bar.