Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-06-24

goets and donkeys are brought within
the enclosure.
In Morocco there are more sheep
than people. Barbary focks are not
driven, as in most parts of the world,
but follow the shepherd, who calls to
his sheep as he would call to little
children. Perched on rocks, with their
flocks about them, the half-clad Berber
boys play the most mournful tunes
imaginable on their ancient pipes.
Is a Well Watered Country.
The broad Muluya river is the first
striking geographic feature encountered
on the trip from Ujda to Fee. This
must be crossed by automobiles on
the railroad bridge. Morocco, usually
thought of by outsiders as dry, semi
desert region, is in reality well wa
tered over much Of it's area. 1t is
drained in three directions. Rivers,
whose headwaters in the Atlas are
within a limited circle, flow to the At
lantic, the Mediterranean, and the Sa-
hara. tile last-named streams being
lost in the thirsty sand. The Muluya
flows northeast from the Atlas to tha
Mediterranean.
This fact is worth emphasizing: at
the mouth of the Muluya, French
Morocco has her corridor to the Medi
terranean, fact often overlooked by
those who examine small-scae maps,
Like the Sebu river, flowing from Fee
to the Atlantic, the Muluya can be
canalized over much of its course, &C.
cording to French engineers The
French are negotiating with the Span
ish in regard to the building of port
near the Muluya's mouth.
Much of the line along the Ujda-FeZ
route has been held by Senegalese
troops. OF all the soldiers of Frances
mighty colonial army-Frenchmen, Lee
gionnaires, Arabs. Berbers and black
men from many aH equatorial cline
none are Drawer than these giant
framed. ebony-skinned men of Senegal.
Within the walled military enclosure
at Gersif one sees the dwellings of
these misunderstanding adobe huts
with conical matched roofs, not unlike
the sort they have at home.
The Touahar Pass.
From Gersif the road climbs to the
terraced hill town of Taxa, boldly COM
handing the Touahar pass between the
northwest frontier province of India
and Afghanistan. Like the Khyber,
this pass has known hard fighting. Men
of the Stone age fought here, and men
Of the Bronze age. Here marched the
Roman legions. Here through the cen
turtles fiocRed the Berber hoFdes, sway
ing east and west.
The beautiful part CT the journey Is
from Taxa on The blue Riffian hills to
the north are without snow, but to the
south the peaks of the Middle Atlas lift
their crystal-crowned heads to the CO.
bait sky. In the emerald bottom lands
below the road sleek cattle Craze. Far
ahead, on a distant hillside, in spash
of white, the Traveller gets his first
glimpse of Fee.
From Fee the trail reaches Mekinez
in two hours by perfect motor high
way or by broad-gauge railway, with
finer coaches than are in use in most
narts of Europe Not far away, among
the silent Zerhoun hills are the ruins
Of Roman Volubilis, where French
Psychologists are piecjng together frag-
ments of stories In stone. While not
as imposing as the Roman ruins Of
eastern Algeria or Tunisia. Volubilis
and other sites nearer the Atlantic
speak of those days when Mauritania
was more than a name on the map.
The end of the cros'sMoroccan trail
is Rabat-Sale. twin cities, separated
by the wide Blu Regreg river. The one,
with its great citadel mounted proudly
on the cliff where the river meets the
sea. now merges into the progressive
French capital The other. quiet and
white as a snowdrift, beside the rest
less gray ocean. is little changed since
those adventurous days when it har-
bored the fierce Barbary pirates known
TO Britons as the "Sally Rovers." who
Numbered the coasts of southern Eu-
rope. sailing as far north as the Brit.
! ish Isles.