The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-10-11

cumstances. Outside of a few coast
towns they are treated worse than
brutes; and whenever 1T lies in their
power, they retaliate with greatest cru
city. This is often possible-thanks to
their superior shrewdness in money
matters and the existence of a debtors
law which permits the Imprisonment of
man until the uttermost farthing of
his debt is paid. To-day Shakespeare
Shylock finds many counterparts in
Tangier and the prisons are crowded
with stately, accomplishing Moors, hela
"in durance vile" in many cases TIL
their death, through petty debts owed
to the Jews. On the other hand
Moor will kill a Jew with as little scru-
pie as he would a snake, whenever ne
can do so quietly That is easy enough,
as the sons of Israel are forbidden to
carry arms and must make all jour
news defenseless and on foot. In Tan
gier, Jews are allowed certain PRIV
ileges which their bretheren farther in
land do not enjoy Their shops are
more commodious than those OF their
Moorish neighbors and they own con-
siderable real estate. But they are
herded like sheep in their own quarter
of the city. and their dress is rig1dly
regulated, so that they may be known
at a glance from true believers. On
no account whatever must they enter
any street in which a. mosque is sit
uated: they cannot build places OF
worship for themselves, and to pass a
"holy house" with shoes on the feet
means certain death. That is why all
Jews you meet in Tangier, rich and
poor. are acknowledgements so-called
holy houses are everywhere. whenever
Jew meets a Moor, he must promptly
turn aside so as not to touch the gar
ments of a follower Of the prophet
This is often impossible in the eX-
tremely narrow and always crowded
streets; and legal punishment Tor the
slightest offense of Jew ranges from
cruel bastinadoing to death by hre'
The Tangiers prison is fearful one
hewn out of the rocks in hillside. Inc
cells each hardly as large as a CONN,
are entered by a hole through which
the prisoner crawls. He is chained to
the wall and passes his time doing any
kind of work at which he is skillful,
nroviding his friends bring him the
| necessary materials, He sells his wares
to passers by, or in any way he cam
and the proceeds go to swell the sum
necessary for his ransom, or to Keep
him from starvation, as there is abso-
lutely no provision made for FEEDING
prisoners. The Governor of Tanglef
receives the munifcent salary of seven
ty-five dollars a year, from the sultan
who lives at Fee and to whom he Is ac-
countable for the spiritual executive
and financial affairs of the city or
course he cannot exist on that paltry
sum and keep up the state expected or
him. therefore it is perfectly under
stood that he may rob his subjects at
WILL sending to the back holes IN tne
hillside anybody who has the temerlty
to resist the levy demanded. The gov
ernor lives in splendor and supports o.
numerous harem; for he We'll knows
! the usefulness Of laying by for rainy
day. Should he accumulate anything
beyond his living, it will surely be ap-
propriated by his imperial master.
There are many negroes in Morocco
and most of them are slaves; but the
servitude is said to be of mild charac-
| ter and being "perishable property,
the human chattels are at least as well
treated as the camels and donkeys,
Every city has it's market, and the
number of mans wives is only limit
ed by his means. AS the females are
more industrious and tractable than
! the males, they are considered GOOD
investment, especially as their children
are subject to sale: and so 1t Is I'M
common for a. Tangiers Moor to have
from fifty to a hundred wives. At the
age of twelve or fourteen, the sons or
good families possess female slaves.
Their fathers and mothers present
them with a few, from time to time,
With which to amuse themselves, just
as Christian parents give their boys
dogs and ponies. The slaves are
brought by caravan from Timbuctoo,
from three thousand to four thousand
every year, and sold in the city mar
kets along with sheep and fowls. Yet
it it considered no disgrace to be the
child of a slave mother. The present
Sultan was the offspring of a negress
and the master who owned her; and so
was the late Grand Sheeref of Wazzan.
Some of the handsomest women, both
in form and feature, to be found in
Morocco are full-blooded negresses,
who reign as queens in the harmens OF
their lords.
Among the molly population of Tan
eier are also about four thousand
Spantards, all of the lowest class. There
are also wild Bedouins of the desert,
never seen without their long rofles;
lefty Nubians, nearly naked, light
conplexioned Moors, richly clad; and
strangest Of all and most to be avoided,
are lunatic Santos" The latter are
reopIe of any class or nationality who
la ppen to become mentally unbalanc-
ed: when they are at once held sacred
nv the Moors, who believe that Allah
has withdrawn their souls to Heaven.
Tins the crazier and more dangerous a
man becomes, or the more successfully
he can feign insanity for any wicked
rurnosa, the greater his influence and
Immunity from crime. Instances are
numerous of foreigners who have come
TO serious trouble through ignorance or
This by repulsing an aggressive Santo,
thereupon bringing down upon their
heads an Arabic curse, to be carried
out at the point of the knife by any ma
tive passer-by, with the sanction Oh the
government.
FANNIE B. WARD.