The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-01-30

or hoz tsic!,lcl or sword upon tho wall,
under which the Gallogan boy is not
daily brought to swear vcngcnce Tor tho
murder OF the MoorW
As ! pondcrod over Dobrado's dra'
matte action and words, l could not but
feel that, after al, it is II pleasant thing
TO live, rs we Americans do, SO lar re-
moved from the endless mental, il not
physical, clashiugs OF these awful here
ditary religious hatrcds OF the centu-
RIGS.
TASGIER.
But just now VIC have rounded Cape
Malabar and Tangicr lies before us like
Il mass OF foam ciurned in tho secthing
tides OF tho Gibraltar strait, and tossed
into structural somblancc upon the
mountan-rimmed shore OF tho bay.
Soon the mass OF white resolves itself
into splatches OF more brilliant white
and seams and checkers OF shade; then
into white cubos OF varying dimensions.
Gradually projecting corners and
heights OF snowy masonry take shape to
the eve; and then the palo pinks, yell
lows and blues OF tho painted walls
blend into rosy whole, broken onlyby
n slender SOU are tower, with glistcning
porcelain sides, and ono huge, ruinous
mass, to which the city seems to lead in
giant housCtop steps. The ono is tho
tower from the minaret OF which the
Moslcln muezzin calls the faithful to
prayers, crying MohaEmed and Allah
to the four quarters OF the earth. The
other is the Kasba or castle, where the
heartless Kirke, during the brief Eng.
lish occupancy OF Tangier which gave
the world ut least the famous "Pepy's
Diary" was guilty OF more wanton
crimes and butcheries than were ever
charged to fiercest and fellest tyrant
Moor. - ,uL
There is no mole. quay or pier ut
Tangier; and we came TO anchor near
the shelving shore, where the harbor-
side traffic goes OH with wondrous din,
and the Moorish customs officers squat
upon their launches transacting their
duties in severe silence and gravity.
On either side werenumberless fellucas,
with strange craft from the lowe: Med
iterranean, and perhaps two score OF
French. Spanish, English and Dutch
Schooners, barks and briggs. Rather
lonesome harbor seems tina. OF Tangier;
and the two huge British mcn.of-war,
which had been lying here several days
in view OF possible danger to British
interests, from, the. threatened revolt OF
interior tribes, WHO seem always 10 be
about to be doing something unpleas-
ant, brought again the keen and humil-
"a, l ho,.n hnI ~, t,,,p
dred other ports, that the American
government possessed sufficient charac-
tor and dignity to make our flag 1.-THE
as well respectetas any. otherthat floats
the seas. EtI,sSs
Getting ashore at Tangier is not alto
gether stately performance. Scarcely
had our steamer anchored, when there
came swarming over the rail from all
quarters I horde OF swarthy turbaned
harbor portcrs, dressed in the natural
black leathern skin of Morocco, many
with huge rings in their ears, danglets
and bangetsof tinkline metals. and
bright sashes, bareleGged and barefoot.
ed, or shod with loose sandals; all as
uncanny and weird a lot as ever looted
ship and butchered its crew in the
good old days of. Moorish piracy and
pillase.
Formerly these black imps grabbed
travellers bodily, lifted them astridc
their backs or shoulders and wadcd
ashore with them. Recently dimin-
utive landing-staee has been built, but
the treatment is quite as ferocious. Or
dinarilv the strangers belongings are
seized and pitched into hall dozen
different small boats and himself made
tho unwilling subject OF fierce scram-
Bile, after which the victor pulls and
hauls his victim into still another boat,
and rushes him to the landing, where
separate bribo must be paid for the
recovery OF each article, and n final
heavy tribute is exacted for ones own
liberation. Precisely the same form OF
piracy is repeated on your way to-a
hotel with your own effects; but once
within the great gate leading into the
city from the harbor side. and you are
safer from annoyance and exaction
than in any other Moorish or Christian
city in the world.
AN INCIDENT.
Good fortune had more than once at
tended me through the alert and cum
ming service of Dobrado. and it stood
me now i'll good stead, getting me on
African soil unrelieycd OF as much rs a
copper flu; although his rugged dip!om-
ocy it first subjected me to some dis
quiet. Standing in front OF me, as each
furious onslaught by porter was made,
and without apparent effort OF his gian.
strength, first with his open right hand
and then with his lett, he sent African,
Moor, Bcrber and what not, alike
sprawling TO the steamers deck. Each
jumped nimbly to his feet and SUNK
humbly away.
SuddenlyH fellow, swarthy rs Moor,
with hair and matted beard, black, curl
ing and glossy as Astrakhan wool,
sprang from the crowd iull upon
Dobrado. Visions OF tragedies, dun
gcons in the Kasba, consular courts OF
inquiry and international complications
flashed before me. The two clinchcd;
parted: clinched again; and, after vari-
GUS alarming contortions, fell in what
still seems TO be u terrific embrace to-
gether upon their knees. Then such
kissing and embracing began rs had
never before seen between man and
man, man and woman, or stranger still,
between woman and woman.
Soon they arose utterly breathlcss,
but radiant Dobrado hall dragged the
hulking fellow to nc, and after the
latter had embraced my still trembling
knees, Dobrado said apologctically but
laconically:: y:ty IL
81 feared l would not meet him,
senior. He is my kinsman, from Mon
donedo, beside tho Ria do Foz You
know the Gallcgans go wherever there