The morning call., 1892-02-07

! hundreds of the biSkriS-the Scayengers,
| water-Carriers and men-Ot-all-wOrk Of Tan
! gier-hare and shaver headed, fiue-featUred
! and with splendid form and mu culaU de-
! velcpment Impish little bO0tbla"ks OF
/ mOngreI race who will perform any dab
! lerip, from backing and shining their own
/ faces to Pumping an eye out aud into It's
! socket, flT out one copper flu for each eX-
! hibitOn, are dancing alb ut you. Snake
/ charmers with hideOus cObra-de-capell0s
| wound about their filthy bodies VIII pass
! YOU. NecromancerS who really eat fire are
/ as common in the streets as are those VINO
/ do not at our summer resorts and nickel
I shoCker museums. Moorish soldiers bare
/ legged and barefOGted ana ever on the tTOt,
/ skurry past you. Hali-gTOwn negroes from
! the SOu1an, with sCaut bTeechclOuts of I'M
! tanned hides for raiment, are here. Veneer
able RifanS, apathetiC rs Opium-eaters and
wltherei as mUmmies, pass tremblingly by,
while genuine BedOuins on skinny Steeds
magniiCently capariSOned, each humping
beneath wOndTOus burnOus, dash reck-
lessly through the crowds.
And still there are trains OF dOnkeyS and
of Came!S laden with merchandise for far
BerbeT villages and farther Gases Of the
desert; women with servants, in whose bas-
kets are fowls for beheddng at the revolt
ing Negroes Sacrifices" hundreds Of hha-
byles, with leathen aprons and shaven
heads, their strong wives, unveiled, with
long chemiSes reaching to their feet and
gTdled at the waist with bright SaSheS, who
work with their husbands everywhere and
anywhere, provide an ample study Of AfTl-
can llll-men; while thousands OF the native
Arab and Moorish men and women sweep
by with swish OF robes and lingllng Jewels
and auklets. like wierd and softly musical
WTaiths in white. Some OF these are plOd-
ding toward khOuba or m3TabOut TO mourn
beside their dead, OF a~e gliding from home
OF shop TO snaGO"y mosque 10 pray
All architectural beauty Is found IN carved
M0Te>Que aTchways, among which are many
magnificent specimens; in bases aud capt.
tails Of spiral stone pillars supporting arches,
YaultIUg over which SuperStruCtures often
shut out the sky, ana these are in the pure
Arabic style OF los years ago; about the
facade5 and fonts y numberleSs fountains
set IN cool alcOves, projecting UNEXPECTEDLY
from blank walls, OF built upright from the
center Of tiny squares, the only places in all
this ancient city where sunlight ever
reaches the earth, and behind the massive
walls IN interiors, whose structural grace
aud exquisite oTnamen,atlOn are an endless
feast OF artistic delight
The shops OF IangeT are all merely tiny
inches in the walls. The Moorish merchant
enters his little black den through a tap
door; lowers the shutter which falls often
in steps to the street, and sits in the center
Of his possess ions, which are all within
reach, voice .ess and grave the day long Ike
manner of a shop is just Ike his. In some
wOTkmen are embr0ideriug the white bur
nous, utilizing their great toes to hold tight
the diseHgsged thread. Ia others greasy
irtteTs are fried in a solemn and stately
manner while one waits. Some display
ostrich eggs and native ornaments. Here
and there IS a seller of herbs AMI vegetables.
Again white-TObed and bearded men are
surrounded by crates Of charcoal aud tiny
bundles of fagOts. In others almost price
less oriental draperies are packed and
punched around u merchant who smokes
and dreams as If no thought OF traffic ever
entered his head
The ancient and venerable letter and
scroll writer has bis niche or chair at arch
way side, and waits, with that stole pa
t,ence only an Indian or a MOsiem can
command, TO udite epsue or trace sacred
passage from the Koran upon egg-Shell, or
on ribbon for some dey0ut ones amulet.
ShOemakers squat CT0Ss-legged, sewing and
hammering upon slippers and sandals only.
Bread-selleTs crouch against walls and
do0rWays. Groups OF swsrthy hhabyles
with their copper eWers are ever before the
gurgling old foun aims. Yelled women
wiEEle and mince TO and from market or
kluuba, or mosque Stately Arabs appear
and disappear, their flowing robes shutting