Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-07

or wrap which covers her head, fallin,
nearly TO her feet, is of blue and whit
checked stuff, similar TO that worn by ne
crosses IN Tangier. These Mozabites have
with them bevy of khabyles who are IL
from the farthest Atlas range of mount
aims, despite the tribal tumult, with AMI
mails for the SHAMELESS They are butchers
are on their way 10 the abbatoir. and arr
volubly depressing prices in excited banter
ingS.
Behind them are a score of negresses
They are on their way to their masters
homes from the market of Soe-de-B arra
You may find any day hundreds more like
them as helpers at the market. OHe /!
chanting some wild song of the jungles an(
she is now and then encouraged by shril
cries of ''Jaleo l-Jaleo ~ from her eompan
ions. They are indescribably ugly, with
short puffy. bodies, tremendous heads
and short huge necks, lumpy
cheeks and square jaws, nostrlls fattened
back almost in a line with the facial angle
and lips like pair of ebonized eonch
shells. Their haiks are always of the
blue and white checked variety, intensity
ing the lustre aud depth of color OF theil
coal black skins. Some of them are
yelled, giving them an air of monumental
coylshness and skittishnesS. Besides the
haik and veil little should be said about
their costume. Below the haik are cas-
caGeS and cataracts of garmentary all
sorts. Two wear the cast of trousers of
some consular attache. A pair OF cavalry
boots ornament the feet and legs Of u third.
The rest are barefooted and their feet are
like huge claws. They are slaves, and were
born in the junglesssbelow Sahara.
But here is bevy of Jews on their way
to the place of customs at the waterside
on some errand connected with importa-
tions,a nd few Jewish women are with
them. There are 5000 of these folk IL
Tangier, and not one is poor. They
could not but welcome incoming civilization
for now none of them can ride upon horse
back, and must perfOrce employ a donkey,
nor can they come into the presence OF
Moors or Arabs connected officially with
the sultanate without repeated salaams,
kissing the hem of their rulers burnous,
and other confessions of humiliation and
degradation. They are nearly all dressed
similar to the Arabs, with long flowing
white robes, turbaned heads, richly en-
broidered waists and sashes. ample trousers
caught with jeweled bands below the
knees, blue silk stockings aud low sandals
upon their feet. A few have the red Tar
boosh with blue and black tassel, betoken-
ing that the wearers are Tunisian Jews.
The women in their company give an ex-
cellent example not only of the beauty of
the female members of this race as they
are found near and in the orient, but also
of the costumes of the better class OF these
in Tangiers. Long, straight gown, without
drapery and of the richest silk, green, or
ange or purple, encircled at the waist by
cords of silk, gold and silk or chains of pure
gold, constitute the sole outer garment,
strikingly different from the Arab
colored pointed slippers. Each woman
wears black silk scarf, bound tightly
across the forehead, gathered closely over
the head, falling in delicate folds behind,
held in place 1T the back by great gold or
ieweled ornaments. This, with Il plain
band of spotless white linen drawn tightly
across the chin and 4 magnificent Indian
shawl carried upon the arm or thrown
carelessly across the shoulders, completes
the costume of these, the most stately and
beautiful women of Tangier
Besides these there will troop by you
hundreds OF the Biskris-the scavengers,
water-carrierS and men-of-all-work of
Tangier-bare and shaven-headed, fine
featured and with splendid form and mus
cular development. Impish little boot
blacks of mongrel race who will perform
any diabierie, from backing and shining
their own faces to Pumping an eye out
and into its socket, for but one copper flu
for each exhibition, are dancing about
you. Snake-charmers with hideous
cobra de copellos wound about
their filthy bodies will pass you. NEGRO
who really eat fire are as common
in the streets as are those who do not at
our usummer resorts and nickel-shocker
museums. Moorish soldiers, barelegged
and barefooted, and ever on the trot, skurry
past you. Half grown negroes from the
Soudan with scant breechclouts of untanned
hides for raiment are here. Venerable
Rifans, apathetic as opium-eaters and
as mummies, pass tremblingly by;
while genuine Bedouins, on skinny steeds
magnifcently caparisoned, leach humping
beneath a wondrous burnous, dash reck-
essly through the crowds.
And still there are trains of donkeys and
If camels laden with merchandise for far
Berber villages and farther GASES of the
desert; women with servants in whose
baskets are fowls for beheading at the re-
Voting ''Negress Sacrifices" hundreds of
zhabyles with leather aprons and shaven
heads, their strong wives, unveiled, with
ong chemises reaching to their feet and
girdled at the waist with bright sashes,
who work with their husbands every
where and anywhere, provide an ample
study of African hillmen; while thousands
If the native ARAB and Moorish men and
women sweep by with swish of robes and
ingling jewels and ankletS like weird and
softly musical wraiths in white. Some of
hese are plodding towards khouba or
narabout to mourn beside their dead, or
ire gliding from home or shop to shadowy
mosque to pray
Ali architectural beauty is fond in
,arved Moresque archways, among which
ire many magnificent specimens; in bases
Ind capitals of spiral stone pillars support
ng arches, vaulting over which super
truetures often shut out the sky, and these
in 10 Ta1 cttrla or. 1Nln
go; about the facades and fonts of num-
,erleSs fountains set in cool alcoves,
unexpectedly from blank walls,
II built upright from the center of tiny
quares, the only places in all this ancient
ity where sunlight ever reaches the
arth; and behind the massive walls in in
errors, whose structural grace and ex-
Iuisite ornamentation are an endless feast
# artistic delight.
The shops of Tangier are all merely tiny
iches in the walls The Moorish mer-
liant enters his little black den through
trap door, lowers the shutter, which
alls often in stems to the street and
its in the center of his possessions, which
re all within reach, voiceless and grave the
ay long like a forsaken Punch in q pauto-
nine. Every manner of shop is Just like
is. In some, workmen are embroidering
he white burnous, utilizing their great
oes to hold tight the disengaged thread. In
theirs greasy fritters are fried in
olemn and stately manner while one
rats. Some display ostrich eggs
eller of herbs and vegetables. Again,
and bearded men are sur
ounded by crates of charcoal and tiny
undles of fagots. In others almost price
ess oriental draperies are packed andz
unched around merchant who smokes