Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-24

western coast
wane other Moorish towns are mostly
gray or white in EHngal tone WITH here
and there a Eresn-tled mosque Lara3chs
affects an manner q color. Among the
white and pale blue houses there are some
Of green. q grange q red and Of yellow
And also making b. distinct from other
places the inhabitants 60 In FOR Eaylv
colured 5elebas or clgaks IN place Of those
q customary white.
On one side q the little river this bril-
liant city rises steeply from the ancient
walls and fortress; on the other a cluster
q brown sand dunes slope back 70 the
hills q mile or more away. and behind
them far IN the distance towers the Red
moun1ain. which RaIsuu made famous by
his capture Of Kaid Maclean-
Lighters Take Off cargo
Great lighters. things like Noah's ark
rowed By sixteen and sometimes twenty
turbaDed men. pushed off the little quay
TO bring our cargo. and smaller craft beEaT
70 cross The river 70 ferry over country
people and their animals along with one
or two poor tagged cut letter carriers
who q come sfoot from Tangier. forty
miles overnight BY one Of the smaller
boats which came alongside We went
asho and sought cut the only hotel kept
q course. by a EpauiArd.
The walls o. The tiny. wood partiuoneo
rooms. formerly spacious Moorish halls
how cut into cubicles, are pspered Ike chill
dren's playrooms with pictures from old
Grsphios and other Bondon wesklies
planned no doubt TO amuse the visitor when
Il rains. for on such occasions the streets
q Larsiche are vsritable rapids. The
rooms that we occupy hang over the city
waus and look down on the banks OF the
river. which II dry At low ids. Being
wsksd early one morning BY some hideous
sounds and muffed voices we psered eau
uously out Of the window and In the din
light discerasd a crowd Of black-EUEned
Jews not twenty feet below killing a COW.
This bank proved 10 be the slauEhtsrhouse
Larniche is off the great trade routes
and the district around Is not the most
productive. For these reasons its poor
Inhabitants. unable TO possess themselves
Of guns and riding horses, are generally
penceable and submissive. The town as
well as the nearby country lie safe for
any Christian and even insults for hin are
few.
Sad Sights I'm LarAiehe.
We went with our old ragged guide. who
bore the fitting name Of sldi pronounced
"seedyHD Mohammed Up through the KEs-
bah or citadel as fin q ruin OF Moorish
architecture as is 10 be seen outside Of
Fez OF Marakesh. and then out through
a long tunnel, undsr many houses. to the
quaint old market place, broad and white.
thanked on each side by long rows Of col
~iounades, the ends. through which the Camel
trains come. sustained by several splendid
arches. no two Of the same design Ger
talnly the Moors who built this town were
architects and artists too.
But the poverty and the degradation Of
the place. The houses dark and wretehedl
The tea shops small ana crowded, much
like opium dens; the people lean and mis-
cradle, dirty and diseased Children follow
you with paper patches, the written prayer
OF some mad saint or holy man. tied abouf
their eyes and designed 10 cure them: old
men hobbls BY. one lean les covered with
sores or swollen huge with e~iephantiasis
Laraiche is beautiful and terrible
Funeral and a wedding.
We saw a funeral and a wedding at La
raiebe. In this sad country, as among al
Mohammedans, . man Is hardly dead be
fore they bury him. As soon as the grave
can be dug the corpse, first washed By der
wishes, is taken on the shoulders Of friends
and quickly to the music Of weird ehanttns
borne TO the grave
With no floods Of tears d no aftermath
Of long extended mourning as in Chris
tan lands. the body is consigned to eartt
and the soul that has departed, to th'
tender mercy Of Almighty God. Ar IN,
marked piece OF sandstone IL left to tel
the place where no other dead may be in
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green OF blue before the parting green o.
blue or red is MS color sin. Perhaps thii
is vel; the world in Morocco is a poo
|, place to live in
/, II was at evening that we saw the wed
ding party. The Bridegroom riding a hssv.
ny caparisoned horse. went down TO III,
? walls by the river to await the coming O
S the bride whose canopy upon smother h0rsI
we could discern above the bushs on IN
5 sand dunes. winding its way down TO tn
. opposite shore. For she WAS a euunrr,
girl who lived in a village In the red hils
Heavy lighters went across TO fetch IN
= party and their horses. hut no previous
arrangement with the rails. or captain
seemed 10 have been made By the bride
Eroom for before the bride In her littl
tent was lifted from the horse into IN
: boat a bargain had 10 be struck, q matte
Which delayed the crossing more than hAl
an hour. Evidently the father Of the lad
was inclined to reserve for himself as mucl
or the purchase money as he could. With
the crew q the ferry. as Is customary
would not accept ordinary fares for trans
terring a wedding party 10 the other Eds
There were st0rming and cursfnE whe,
Z Il was discovered that L an infdsL Ia
: taken q snapshot OF the boat and psrhap
= unless the BRIDEGROOM is less Fupsrstfriou
. thar most Of his countrymen, the unfor
I tunats woman stands a chance of being Al
voroed when time proves that the evn ev
E Il upon her a. the result q my presenr
p IN Laraiche on the day she was dslivsre,
q 10 her husband
LET'S APosfreBhe 70 the Csuntry.
& 1 think II is one Of Pierrs Lou's tales O
M0rooeo that rhe following u0rds givIn.
P IN brief a complete picture Of this strilin.
q country are 70 be found: Farewell Oar
e Mughrsb. empire o. the Moorsl Mayst tho