Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-01-14
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 Natives in many varieties of costume were wading backward and forward be- tween the shora 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 turhans or the Turkish fez on their heads. Others were wrapped in 'tjellabiyas," (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 . 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 it was impossible to imagine; yet porterage on the shore is a lucrative business, the men some times earning seven shillings or eight shillings day. When could summon resolution to leave the window l rang for early breakfast after which we sal lied forth to inspect the town.
  was bitterly cold. and when we turned into the streets, which were in shade, we could have believed ourselves to be in England on 6 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 inn pression that Tangier was all warmth oln 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 inad- 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"- from both behind and in front were per 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 were exposed for sale either piled in heaps right and left or hanging in the doorway.
 1 Leather work of all kinds abounded; 1 shoemakers were busy with brilliantly. dyed skins making gorgeous slippers bright yellow, arsenic green, and crim. 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- ous 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-ofice, and few doors more brought us to a chemist, whose well-stocked shop treasured 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 a fine old Moorish gateway, were numbers of little rickety tables, so frail-looking that it was a marvel they were not continually overturned. on which all manner of awful-looking sweetmeats, that none surely but a ''heathen" could appreciate, were spread out for sale.-Temple Bar.