The Detroit times., 1912-11-25


was "A good deal harder than the sion
itseif. The one gateway, on the cause
way SIDE. was just wide enough
admit gravid COW, and no wider. ant
the height OF camefs hump. Th'
dwelling houses for man and beast IL
size we're less preten .ious. They naG
not Teen built for eternity, and aItc'
The fashion set BY the Pharaohs, Tie
Jews. and the Carthaginians for %
mestic buildings, were for the mol
part constructed OF adobe, which Il
quite good for, say. three hundred
years or 40, II only you keep tn
weather out by good outside SKIN OF
plaster.
The causeway, too, which was the
only road BY which one could get int1
the castle, vas quite a notable feature
in its way. Originally il had been
part OF the spur on which the castIe
was perched. but il had been shaved
down he sides here. and built up al
the edge there, obviously on some
Roman or Carthaginian model, till ID
day il looks like an aqueduct such as
one may set. for example, near Tunis
only with the arches filled, and With
men and animals instead OF wafer
coursilg along the gutter al its top,
Two COWS abreast can get along
that caussway. il they are not fat
COWS; or two horsemel, IL they croC X
up their outside legs so as not TO In
terfeIe with the parapet; or three
footmen, il the middle man does not
swing out his elbows. The length oil
II from the little gateway in the be
wall 20 where il fans out into bare
hillside Is some two hundred AND nifty
to two hundred and eighty yards, and
the drop ever the parapet averages
any thing between fifty and ninety feet
sheer
Furthermore, II is an exception 70
all modern Moroccan rules OF archi
lecture. In that IL is kept In excellent
repair. In modern times-say, since
A. II. 745-the Berbers have grated
a hot very rigid Monammedism on
the assorted brands OF pagannu n
which their mercenariss down through
the former ages brought home with
other loot. They admit in theory that
every man s fate Is written on his
forehead. and that what Allah has
ordained Will come TO pass. But they
that Allah writes tho
choicest things for those who help
themselves and so they keep IN ar
dcienses efficient, and they discorr.
aSe the intruder.
Now Sidi Ibrahim Bergash (of
pious memory had one wife who oc-
cupted att Of his tender affections, and
as she continued at decent intervals
to bear him sons, he took no other
During the years he ruled over the
castle and the tribe, seed-time came
at its appointed periods. and harvests
followed. One year In 20 came the
blight, which was bad; one year In
10 the locusts, which were worse !;
and one year in 10 the sultan. who
was worst OF the lot.
II was the sultan's habit To camu
an army among the corn-helds in the
valley, and, II not bought of. to raw.
age that valley down to the last blade
OF corn and the last straying goat He
could not smoke or shoot the Berbers
out OF their castle because II was too
strong, and the Berbers could not cup
up his army because IL was too big.
and although the residents did creep
out at nighttime and try a little snip
ping two can play at that game, and
the sultan's men, besides being clever
soldiers. had such an extremely bad
time OF II In this world that they were
anxious TO be sent TO Para.
disc, and In consequence inconyenient.
ly reckless.
SO that, on the whole, Il was only
the younger and rasher spirits among
the Berbers who tried much retalia-
ton. and the elders. with households
to provide for, generally found II
profitable to pay enough taxes to buy
on the rest OF their crops. But be II
clearly understood they did not one
little bit like paying, and never &C
counted themselves the sultan's sub
jects or even his vassals
Slings. the long bow and the cross
bow had from time immemoriaI been
the Berbers' missile-throwers. though.
like the Baleares, they had always
had, and have today for that matter,
a weakness for the sling Black
powder and the short-stoc',ed gun
with a fve-foot barrel have crept
among them these latter years, but
owing TO their inefficiency and the
difficulty OF coming by them. have
achieved no vast popularity. II re-
NAMED for Saint Ibrahlm to discover
and lust after the rife.
His holiness. as II happened, was
Dne day at the northern edge OF his
where the Atlas foothills
curve out into the plain, and the tenn
Derate climate OF the mountain verges
nto a tropical heat. He was over on
hat side on the matter OF a cohort OF
Wild pig raiding among some OF the
.ribal corn and being keen sports
nan, and finding the pig plentiful
stayed down there a whole week. and
slew Ia fine boars to his own spear
whereof, theNusks by the way. re-
main as hat pegs in a set OF rooms
IN Trinity Hall 10 this day.
Upon this innocent amusement
here descended without warning the
advance scouts OF sultan's army.
and the sportsmen and beaters ran
or rode for their lives I'm IA different
Three beaters and
cousin OF the kaid's were captured
and his highness the sultan. with that
paternal care for his people for which
he was noted. and which SO endeared
him TO them, cut OF the hands and
feet from these and set them To crawl
back TO the mountains as heralds OF
his approach.
tCOptinuedD
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