The Burton Holmes lectures; . of thevictim. No ^\•ise subject of the Moorish Sultan ever boastsof his possessions. All feign poverty ; for every man isallowed to rob the man who is next in rank below poor man ^\ho can find no poorer man to rob that hemay pay his due, is the one who suffers most. We saw adozen such in the tent at the Bashas camp, chained together,the neck of each locked in a metal collar ; the whole pro-cession was to be marched with the music of that clank-ing chain to the prison at Tangier, man\- miles away. There is no justice inMorocco. The head-in a n of a \- i 11
The Burton Holmes lectures; . of thevictim. No ^\•ise subject of the Moorish Sultan ever boastsof his possessions. All feign poverty ; for every man isallowed to rob the man who is next in rank below poor man ^\ho can find no poorer man to rob that hemay pay his due, is the one who suffers most. We saw adozen such in the tent at the Bashas camp, chained together,the neck of each locked in a metal collar ; the whole pro-cession was to be marched with the music of that clank-ing chain to the prison at Tangier, man\- miles away. There is no justice inMorocco. The head-in a n of a \- i 11 a g esqueezes all he can outof the nothing that his{)eople have ; the chiefman of the districtlevies on the villageheadman ; the chiefpays tribute to the. INTO MOROCCO 79 Governor; the Governor cannot expect to hold his officeunless magnificent presents are annually sent to some grandvizier of the court at Fez ; and every now and then we hearof the downfall of a grand vizier, who has waxed wealthy,boasted of his possessions, excited the cupidity of his sacredSultan and paid the penalty, either by suffering the confisca-tion of his fortune and then exile, or perhaps by drinking,at the command of the all-holy Emperor, a little glassof poisoned tea.
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