Omaha daily bee., 1892-01-31
PICTURES OF FOREIGN LIFE
A Moorish City Celebrated for the Fatal
Beauty Of It's Women.
WANDERlNGs IN FAIR MOROCCO
Glowing Description of the Shores of Two
Continents-rhe Landing at Tangier
"A Funny Little Scrap
Inspiring Scenes.
ICOpurilht, 1921.


TANGIER, Morocco Jan. 11.-TCorrespond-
ence of The BEEl-At Tavira we had no
difficulty in securing passage In a staunch
coasting steamer, plying between Lisbon and
Cadiz. After day in the latter, once the
emporium Of the world and still the most
winsome and beautiful city of Spain, we
sailed on smaller vessel little better than
ferry-boat, for the African coast, touching
for an hour at Tarifa, the southernmost city
continental Europe, bat fifteen miles
southwest Of Gibraltar.
In this, less than 100 miles from Cadiz,
there are innumerable scenes and memories
OF wondrous impressiveness. Cadiz itself
was the Tarshish of bible history, Juno's
wondrous island and the glorious Iberia of
Anacreon and Homer. At the end Of the
fourth century 1t was the richest, most bril-
liant and most profiigate city in the world.
Then the Goths and the Arabs possessed it,
the latter for 800 years from tho eighth
century, when Alfonso the Learned retook 1t
1862. What vision of riches and pilage
comes with vanishing sight of the beauti-
ful city, when It's American treasure is re-
membered. The old writer's tell that In the
one year OF 1872 the gold and silver imported
at Cadiz from America amounted to $l25, 600
600; and away back of this, when tho English
Lord Essex sacked and pillaged Cadiz, the
booty amounted to forty great galleons and
thirteen ships OF war laden with American
gold
In an hours time you have come abreast Of
Cape Trafalgar. Your steamer's course Is
through the very waters where Nelson won
his Immortal victory over the combined fleets
OF Gravina and Villeneuve. All the mighty
paintings you have seen, all the majestic
monuments to Nelson, underneath whose
shadows you have stood, all the thrilling
prose and verse you have read upon this in
spring theme, fill and thrill your mind and
heart, until the air is dimmed with smoke, the
hoarse 6ellowings OF cannon deafen you, the
sheets OF fame from those two solid columns
OF war ships blind you,u the shrieks
OF wounded and dying ana the crash
ror-all for an instant, may be-; but no
poet or painter has sover brought its
glory and savagery TO your comprehension
SO matchlessly as your own brief presence
there.
'The Fatal Beauty of It's Women"
And now Tarifa is reached; Tarifa' cele-
brated OF all cities Of the Latin race for the
fatal beauty Off women; Tarifa where the
besieging Moors put To death the son Of Don
Alfonso before his eyes In an attempt to
enect the city's surrender; where mighty
battles between the kings Of CASTLE and
Spain against the Moors were fought be-
meath its walls; where once 1000 Roman
sons came and took to themselves their pick
OF spanish women; where the Berbers first
met the dispirited armies OF Roderick, last
OF the Goths; Tarifa with its scores of
towers and gates, labarynthine streets, bal
comics hidden behind masses0of flowers, and
It's half Spanish, half Moorish scenes and
lie which tannt and tempt ravishingly to
dallying and delay.
From this point, as your course Is set to
the southwest for Tangier almost straight
across the strait of Gibraltar, the scene on
every hand is one OF matchless beauty ard
grandeur. Back to the northwest stretches
me Spanish coast line 10 Trafalgar, low