Omaha daily bee., 1892-01-31

lying along the sea, out with background
OF undulating foothills. breaking into deep
gorges. and capped by lofty sierras, the
whole checkered by vineyards and dotted
with cities and hamlets in the distance as
white as flakes of snow Back across the
waters to the northeast looms gray old Glib
raltar, a line of fishing villages, arsenals,
quays and moles at its base like slender
ribbon of foam, its thousands of threatening
cannon above hidden and submitted by ter
races bright and vines and gardens fair.
A Glowing Pen Picture.
Before you is Africa, warm and glowing be-
meath a midwinter sun. Away to the south
east Is the shadowy peak of Apes Hill, at
whose base Ceuta lies. A grand and diversi
fed coast stretches westward, past as yet
invisible Tangier, to Cape Spartel, the north
westernmost point in Africa Portions of
great forests sweep from noble heights into
slumbrous valleys which undulate softly to
the sea. The lights and shades are strange.
The green OF the middle strait blends into a
rosy puce towards land, this into a brilliant
blue further on, and the coast line at the
water's edge seems like thread Of lustrous
onyx. Above this, brown; then purple, then
emerald, and beyond there is q glowing If
faint orange, as though the valleys palpably
flung back the sunlight which fingered low
ingly above. Beyond this line of tender
purple, jagged with feathery, misty fronds.
This is whore the Atlas mountains are. And
then between the mountain passes and peaks
and the sky is faint thread of saffrony pale
pink, something like gauze of lavender laid
on band OF roses. That CLEAN Of color
flashes the mental vision to the vast Sahara
and the Tar Soudan.
Feasting with eager and selfish delight
upon the glorious shores of TWO continents,
had lost sight of honest Dobrado; Dobrado
who was to have returned to his place by the
babbling fountains of Lisbon, from Bejo,
should persist in tramping thence 10 Tavlra
aad the sea; Dobrado who was now sworn
seryitor and friend; Dobrado broad of grin
as Gargantua, and Of beam as Quixote's no
less faithful squire; Dobrado whom found
with lowering eyes and hdeous face, as rapt
as l had been, scowling with unutterable
hate at the fair land of the Moors. In his
attitude looks, mutterings and unconscious
gesticulations, increasing every moment in
rapidity and intensity. the whole story of the
lrrevocable vengefulness Of Christian against
Moslem and Moslem against Christian was
told. 1t was theme for poet; subject for
artist-Europe the implaca bic foe of Africa;
the cross and the crescent; incarnate hate,
the outgrowth Of incarnate love, burning to
annihilate incarnate fanaticism; Christian
savagery thirsting for the life OF Moslem
barbarism.
Heredit ary Hatreds.
touched the Gallegan gently upon the
shoulder, ana my eyes sought his inquir-
ingly. lie trembled and was woefully con-
fused for moment. Then his great blue
eyes saddened and he said softly and
slowly, as though his heart meanwhile
travelled long and bitter way:
''rhere Is not a choza (cabin) from Finis-
terre to Palencia in which there does not
hang some forefathers gaita, or hoz (slokle
or sword upon the wall, under which the
Gallegan boy is not daily brought to swear
vengence for the murders of the Moorl''
rAs pondered over Dobrado's dramatic ac-
ton and words, could not but feel that,
after all, il is pleasant thing to live, as we
Americans do, 30 far removed from the end
less mental, II not physical, clashings of
these awful hereditary religious hatreds of
the centuries.
But just now we have rounded Cape Mala-
bar and Tangier lies before US like a mass of
foam churned in the seething tides Of the
Gibraltar strait, and tossed into structural
semblanee upon the mountain trimmed shore
OF the bay. Soon the mass OF white resolved
itself into splatches OF more brilliant white
and seams and checkers Of shade; then into
white cubes Of varying dimensions. Gradu-
ally projecting corners and heights of snowy
masonry take shape TO the eye; and then the
pale pinks, yellows and blues of the painted
walls blend into rosy whole, broken only
by q slender square tower, with glistening
porcelain sides, and one huge, ruin0us mass,