The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-01-13
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I Every Moroccan city has three parts, 1 one belonging to the government, where i the officials live; another containing the stores and homes of the Moors, and the i third the quarter of these deapised Jews. l There are but few large towns in the i country, but all are of about the same
 character. being made up of boX-like flat l roofed buildings and surrounded by walls. l The most important city is Fez which l lies TO miles south of here. It contains l 10000 people and is the chief capital. l Another capital is Markakech which con l tain so ooo and third is MelSinez, which
 is of about the same size. The sultan ] lives in all of these places during the
 year. He is now at Fez and will probably
 be there for some months. He carries
 his court with him, but leaves rela-
 tive in charge of capital when he
 leaves it. I understand that he also has
 palace in each of the ports. l have
 seen the one at Tangier. It is shabby.
 Ports of Morocco.
 The chief ports of Morocco are eight in
 number. They run along the Atlantic and 1 Mediterranean coasts. This town of Tan
 ger is about the largest. It has fifty or sixty thousand people. Tetuan, farther eastward on the Mediterranean, covers 1 more space, but it has a smaller popula- l ton. Along the Atlantic farther south
 are Larache. Rabat. Casa Blanca. Maya ]
 are white towns surrounded by walls and
 made of box-shaped white houses of brick and stucco.
 Magador has about 25, 900 population i and of these Io,ooo are Jews. The Jews
 have been making a great deal of money there and some of them have been grad
 ually moving out of the Mellah and rent
 ing houses in the Moorish section of the town. This, I am told, was the cause of
 the rebellion which broke out in that quarter a few months ago. The chief of one of the Mohammedan tribes nearby was called in and he drove the Jews back to their own quarter, telling them l they should know their place and keep it. Mogador is the port for Marral0ech. 1 the southern capital and it formerly had ] great caravan trade with T1mbulftu. i The camels were loaded there and made l their long march across the Sahara to
 the upper Niger. The place is now ship
 ping goat skins to the United States and
 many an American lady pulls on kid
 shoe every morning made of hide from Mogador. There are 300 Europeans liv-
 ing at that port, consisting. of English,
 Germans. Italians, Swiss, French and l Spanards.
 Magazan has 5000 inhabitants, one 1 third of whom are Jews Larache has
 5000. of whom 2ooo are Jews, and here | in Tangier the Jews are more in num- l Der than anywhere else, and they have | the right to live wherever they please which is SO in no other city of Morocco.
 The walls of these Moroccan cities are
 entered by gates, so tha tthe city can be
 closed tight at night The business ia | largely done in markets although all 1 towns have shops and bazars.
 Thousand Straw Villages. | The cities, however contain but small part of the population of Morocco. The masses live in villages made up of huts l of stone, chinked with mud and matched l with straw, or in movable tents. Many 1 of the huts are altogether of straw, and
 not a few of them are sun-dried brick. l Roughly speaking, there are about ten l million people housed in these ways, and | that is more than one-tenth as many as | the population of the United States. The
 city population could, I venture be placed within the limits of Baltimore and have | room to spare.
 How saualidly these people live one can | see by riding a few miles out into the | country. The average village is like 1 collection of falling straw stacks, each 1 surrounded by a hedge of green cactus, l the leaves of which have thorns as sharp l as fine needles Each house stands alone, l and no man dares peep in through the | eate ar look over the walls. The cactus 1 hedge usually incloses a small bare yard, | in which the cattle, sheep, goats. horses,
 pigs. camels and chickens belonging to | inc family are driven at night.
 | sueh villages have no streets and no | navements whatever. After sunset they | Income as dark as a pocket except where I inc houses are lighted by candles or per | hans Inv American coal oil The villagers arc farmers who own lands nearby. No