Omaha daily bee., 1892-01-31

70 which the city seems to lead In giant
housetop steps. The one is the tower from
the minaret of which the Moslem muezzin
calls the faithful TO prayers, crying Moham,
med and Allah to the four quarters of the
earth The other Is the Kasba or castle,
where the heartless Kirke, during the
brief English occupancy OF Tangier
which gave the world at least
more wanton crimes and butcheres than
were ever charged to fiercest ana fellest tyr
ant Moor.
Landing at Tangier.
There is no mole, quay or pier at Tangier;
ana we came 10 anchor near the shelving
shore, where the harDorslde traffic goes on
with wondrous din and the Moorish customs
onicers squat upon their launches transact
Ing their duties in severe silence and gravity.
On either side were numberless fellucas, with
strange craft from the lower Mediterranean.
and perhaps two score of French, Spanish,
English and Dutch schooners, barks and
brigs. Rather a lonesome harbor seems that
OF Tangier; and the two huge British men,
of-war, which had been lying here several
days In view OF possible danger to BRITISH
interests, from the threatening revolt of in
terror tribes, who seem always to be about to
again the keen and humiliating longing l
have had in an hundred other ports, that the
American government possessed sufficient
character and dignity to make our flag a
1.-THE as well respected as any other that
floats the seas
Getting ashore at Tangier Is not altogether
stately performance. Scarcely had our
steamer anchored when there came swarm
ing over the rail from all quarters horde
of swarthy turbaned harbor porters. dressed
in the natural black leathern skin of Moroo-
co, many with huge rings in their ears
danglets and banglets of tinklng metals, and
bright sashes, barelegged and barefooted, or
shod with loose sandals; all as uncanny and
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cred its crew In the good old days of Moorish
piracy and pilIage.
Formerly these black imps grabbed tray
elers bodily, lifted them astride their backs
or shoulders and waded ashore with them.
Recently diminptive landing stage has
been built, but the treatment is quite as
ferocious. Ordinarily the strangers belong
ings are seized and pitched into half dozen
different small boats and himself made the
unwilling subject OF a fierce scram-
and hauls his victim into still
another boat, and rushes him to the landing
where separate bribe must be paid for the
recovery OF each article, and a final heavy
tributes Is exacted for ones own liberation.
Precisely the same form of piracy is repeated
on your way TO hotel with your own effects (;
but once within the great gate leading into
the city from the harbor side, aid you are
safer from annoyance and exaction than in
any other Moorish or Christian city In the
world.
Funny Little Scrap.
Good fortune had more than once attended
me through the alert ana cunning services
OF Dobrado, and 1t stood me now in good
stead, getting me on African soil unre-
leyed OF as much as copper flu;
although his rugged diplomacy at first sub
1ected me to some disquiet. Shading IN
front Of me, as each furious onslaught by a
porter was made, and without apparent effort
OF his giant strength first with his open right
hand and then with his left he sent African,
Moor, Berber and what not, alike sprawlng
to the steamers deck. Each jumped nimbly
TO his feet and skunk humbly away
Suddenly fellow, swarthy as Moor, with
hair and matted beard, black, curly and
glossy as Astrakhan wool, sprang from the
crowd full upon Dobrado. Visions of lrage-
dies, dungeons in the Kasba, consular courts
OF inquiry and international complications
flashed before me. The two clipched parted
clinched again; and after various alarming
contortions, fell in what still seems TO be
terrific embrace together upon their knees.
Then such kissing and embracing began as
had never before seen between man and mae,
man and woman, or stranger still, between
woman and woman.
Soon they arose utterly breathless but ra-
diant, D0brsd0 half dragged the hulking