Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-12
N Walls and made of hoxshnned MhIte

by walls and made Of boxshnped white
houses of brick and stucco.
Mogador has about 10000 population
ana of these 10000 are Jews. The Jews
nave been making q great deal Of
money there and some OF them have
been gradually moving out of the Mol
Ian and renting houses IN the Moorish
section OF the town, This, am told
was the cause of the rebellion which
broke cat in. that quarter a few months
ago. The chief OF one of the Moham-
medan tribes nearby was called In and
he drove the Jews back to their own
quarter telling them that they should
know their place and keep It. Mogador
is the port for Marfrakech the south
ern capital, and It formerly had u great
caravan trade with Ttmbuktu The
camels We're loaded there and made
their long march across the Sahara to
the upper Niger. The place is now
shipping goat skins TO the United
States, and many an American lady
pulls on kid shoe every morning
made OF hide from Mogador. There
are 800 Europeans living at that port.
consisting OF English, Germans, Italians,
Swiss, French and Spaniards.
Magaaan has 5000 inhabitants, one
third of whom are Jews. I.arachme
has 5000, of whom 1000 are Jews, and
here in Tangier the Jews are more In
number than anywhere else and they
have the right 10 live wherever they
please. which is so In no other city of
Morocco.
The walls of these Moroccan cities are
entered by gates, so that the city can be
closed tight at night. The business
Is largely done In markets. although
all towns have shops aud baaars.
TEN THOUSAND STRAW VILLAGES
The cities. however. contain but Il
small part Of the population of Moroc-
GO. The masses live In villages made
up Of huts of stone. chlnked with mud
and matched with straw. or in NOV
able tents. Many of the huts arc al
together Of straw. and not a few OF
them are sun-dred brick. Roughly
speaking, there are about 10, 100000 peo-
nle housed In these ways, and that is
more than one-tenth as many as the
population of the United States. The
city population could. venture he
placed within the limits OF Baltimore
and have room to spare
How squalidly these people live ono
can see by riding few miles out into
the country. The average village Is
like collection OF falling straw stacks
each surrounded by a hedge of green
cactus, the leaves of which have thorus
as sharp as fine needles. Each house
stands alone, and no man dares peer
| III through tit gaze OF look over the
walls. The cactus hedge usually in
| closes a small bare yard IN which the
cattle, sheep, goats, horses. pigs, cam
els and chickens belonging to the family
are driven at night.
Such villages have no streets and nc
pavements whatever. After sunset
/ they become as dark as a pocket
except where the houses are lighted
! by candles or perhaps by American
coal oil. Tho villagers are farmers
who own lands nearby. No ono lives
( on his farm, and IN looking over the
/ landscape one sees no horses, barns
I nor fences There are only bare
| fields or the crops.
In the pasture lands the sheep
| roats, pigs and other animals are
! herded. watched by a shepherd. who
| is often employed by several farmer.
! at so much for each animal. the fiocks
| thus feeding together, At night he
| drives them all to the village. and
! each animal makes a bee line for It,
! own individual home. No ono would
/ think of leaving even n goat outside
/ the town after dark for fear o
thieves.
These are the conditions within ;
! mile OF Tangler, the chief seaport O
| Morocco, III the interior they mus
! be far worse. There many of thu
families live In tents, but all are ON
the constant lookout against thieves
and brigands, and nearly every tribe
Is at war with its neighbors