The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-11-05
AGL|MPSE or TANGIER
The Oddities Of This Famous
City Of the Moors.
ITS QUEER, WINDING LANES.
No WhssIsd Vehicles Are TO De Found
There, and the Street Of the Chris
usns, the Main ThOroughfsrS IL
Only Twenty Feet In Width.

Only Twenty Feet In Width.
Firvt impressions OF city Ike Tan
ger are dlficult 10 give because OF
fhelr enormous confusion. Il IL varie-
gated and microscopic picture that one
Eooalls Of events since ones arrival,
full OF motion and color. but devoid OF
order or sequence. II In a. hard 10 ar
range ones IDEAS as 10 assemble ones
coins Of American, English, Spanish
and Moorish mints. reduce them to pc
nstas and centimos and get back the
right change when making n purchase.
From the piar one passes into and
MP the main thoroughfarc. or Street Of
ahe Christians, and here your frat idea
of Tangicr itself begins Bare legs,
flowing robes, red fezes. white turbans,
donkcys, mules, men, women, children
pnd produce pass before the eyes. and
babel fills tho ears.
The Street OF the Christians 10 the
widest In town. aysrn ging twenty feet
Others are ten, eight or as little as SIX.
All are paved with rough cobblestones,
md Of course there IL no room for
pidewalks. Wheeled vehicles there are
hone, either In Tangier or elsewhere In
M country. Men and donkeys jostis
Ind puAh each other without ceremony.
but with n certain comfy and mutual
(sHpect that comes Of long and close as
lociation. While your head Is turned
) donkey with water casks protruding
Srom both sides OF his back viii bump
Ehem against you, sending you careen-
ing against another patient beast laden
b-slways overladen, Il may be said
With bagS OF grain.
Houses are OF masonry piastered out
ytdO and usually calcimined with a
Mighty blush tint TO reduce the glare
otherwise Of unrelicved white. Mostly
may are two and three stories IN
height, many with such windows as
they have opening upon an inside court
and only narrow peepholes looking out
lIpon the street. This, taken together
with the narrowness Of the highways,
makes II hard to distinguish archltec-
aunl landmarks as you 20 about. From
sither side Of the Street Of the Chris
lians queer lanes branch out and wind
and cross and double and end with tan
talking frequency in blank wall.
Finding ones way Il beset with difH-
culties and following directions hope
less.
soon after arrival decided to visit
tho American consulate. nxod IL
upon the map as about two minutes
walk and dismissed my Moorish guide
with sc0m when he offered to accom-
pany me. An hour later l was thank
ful merely to flnd myself again on the
Street Of the Christians and had for
gotten oil about the American con-
Uulate. Tho next day was humble
enough to let the guide show me the
way.
Guides here are numerous. but out
IAde Of a narrow limit worthless on
account Of their slight acquaintance
u,afh English OF any other tongue ex-
rept Spanish and their native Arabic
ND their inability or disinclination 70
10 for you what you want Their main
inject seems to be to take you on don
key rides when you would rather walk
ma divide your pesetns with the driver
pw steer yOu into cafes, where they or
hur cofRoo which you DO not want, but
tor which. NJ an American and there
core a millionaire, You are expected to
bay.
ON thu OtAar hand. one cannot well
No without there guides. because he
pannot AJAX n question Of two words on
be street or oven pause to road a
Slgn before he 10 surrounded by a
aoEcn interpreters --intenupters would
ba better-d donkey drivers, street vend-
brg and begRars, each Of whom thinks
bimSelf entitled to half peseta for
rarely Offering his services.
so, after all. II 10 az we'll TO be hied
b the guides, because while they are
NTH you they drive on the other para
ylees. wishing 10 preserve your pesetas
Dor thpir own better purposes, and 1t
y question OF suffering at the hands
u one rather than otherwise support
MT che whole town.
AZ an instance of the cosmopolitan
character OF the town, the owner OF
ny hotel n an Engiishman whose wife
b a Spaniard born in Tangier. TIE
prench, British, German and Spanish
governments maintain separate post.
Deaces, but all take the money of the
others. The frst letter l mailed
took 70 the German postoftice. tender
Cd English money in payment and got
hack Spanish in change. II one has
occasion to send considerable mail It
pays. l have been assured. 10 buy
stamps IN Moorish money, because all
coin is accepted at its face value at the
postofaces, but Moorish Ii so depre.
ciated for commercial purposes that
II can be secured upon the most IA
vorabIe terms OF all from the money
changers
Every dog OF Christian In Moroc-
co is living here by the tolerance OF u
people which is little different now
from what II was a thousand years ago,
when the Moslern hordes swept across
porthern Africa and Into Europe until
halted by Charles Martel on the field
" Tours. This tolerance. It 10 true, 10
nne OF long standing In the coast cities