The morning call., 1892-01-31

own effects, but once within the great gate
leading INTO the city from the harbor side
and you are safer from annoyance and eX-
action than In any other Moorish or Chris
tan city IN the world.
Good fortune had more than once at
tended me through the alert aud cunning
service OF DOlrad1, and Il stood me now 10
good stead getting me on African soil u1-
relieved OF rs much as 4 copper piece. although
his rugged diplomacy a trSt subj .cttd me
to s0medSQuiet. Standing in front Of me,
as each furious onslaught by porter was
made, and without apparent effort OF his
giant strength. first with his open right
hand and then with bis left, he sent AZ
rican. Moor Berber and what not alike
SPRAYING % the steamers deck. Each
jumped nimUly to his feet aud skunk hum
big away.
Suddenly a fellow, swarthv As a Moor
with hair and matted beard, black, burning
and glossy as AStUakan wool, Sprsng from
the crowd full upon D0bradO. Visions OF
tragedies, dungeons IN tile kaSba, consular
courts Of inquiry and international COM
iCau0ns flashed before me. The two
Clucled; parted; clinched again; aud, after
various alarming COufrTU0ns fell In what
seems e. be terrific embrace tOge Their
upon their knees. Then such kissing and
embracing began as / had never before
seen between man and man, man and
woman, or stranger stlL, between woman
aud oman.
Soon they arose utterly eatlless, but
radiant D0brad1 half dragged the hulk
Ing fellow 90 NE, and after the fellow had
embraced my stIl trembling knees.
DobradO said apo!osct cally, but locani-
II feared I would not meet him, Senior
He i my kInsmRu, from M0ndonedo. best lie
the Rio de F.Z. 1Ou kn1w the GflieEHns
60 wherever there Is money for toll lie Is
nalf-tUe p0rteT0 aud ba.ftiWe does some
seTy'e for merchant here WHO had tr5tuc
with AGliai0II.' And then, heSitGGtiy:
perhaps Senior could ll1 him useful IN
Ian- er.'
">euoI7 could and did "S5nor," the
writer, shuns great hotels IN his wander
ings. loves TO know tie lnW!y and, from
their standpoint Of thinking, feeling and
condition, 10 thus look through the back
windows OF foreign life and ways.
No one can wholly tel. another what
Ta0geT is like within its ancient city
walls. Il has no street geography.
Though 1t contains scarcely more than
10000 souls, its own Inhabitants get lost
within it: and there is but one street or
way in which tie stranger Is safe from absc-
lutte wreck Of consciousness OF location. THIS
extends upward from the haTb1r side 10 the
SOC-de- BagIa. the great outside III rket
| place Ol IaugIer JUST. " here YOU leave the
city On the way 10 iFrZ, N0r0cc''S capital.
! O1ce dozen yards away from this narrow
to prayer to Allah or Allah's subjects for
succOr IS a quickly realized experience.
Bat for D0bIadO AMI his knsman,
should have turned back. passed the night
outside the great city gate upon the shore
beneath the stars and some handy tnrpau-
! lin, and iucOutnenuy fad tie place upon
| the next days steamer for Gibraltar. AS
! it was, kept close TO my Gallegan guides.
| The evening had fallen before we bad
! entered the city. The single thorough
! fare was a babel Of dOnkeyS. camels,
/ goats, water-carIiers, barelegged African
! soldiers and merchants closing their tiny
shops. The din Of "Ba.ak baiak! balAk ="
/ the ecu valent for our Look QUIZ shTieked
by thousands of voices ID the chOky, chasm-
like street, was deafenEg. Scores Of times
on our haf-mile way we were ground
against buildings, wedged between cameis
or flung into pltch-back archways
After an hours struggle we turned from
the main thOTJughfare and plunged in and
upward among maze of streets, so narrow
that opposing walls could be touched by
OutStTetched hands The silence here was
as startling as had been The din. Now and
then perhaps a ghosuy figure fitted By.
Here and there was heard the whipping
sound Of water from overlooking fountains.
Occasionally a mufficd form asleep beneath
an archway was stumbled upon. Not alight