Travels in the Atlas and Southern Morocco, a narrative of exploration . the cleanly, sweet incense andperfume loving Moor—so many more plague-spots toinfest the air he breathes and poison his blood; forwhere the Jews are, there also are filth, vermin, anddisease. In this respect there is no race on earth soabsolutely repulsive as the Barbary Jew. He hugs hisdirt as he hugs his gold. By degrees we discovered that the Jew is not liableto conscription, that he is not taxed for the supportof the Kaids and the Sultan, and that, as comparedwith the Moor, his life and property are safe. Thoughan alie
Travels in the Atlas and Southern Morocco, a narrative of exploration . the cleanly, sweet incense andperfume loving Moor—so many more plague-spots toinfest the air he breathes and poison his blood; forwhere the Jews are, there also are filth, vermin, anddisease. In this respect there is no race on earth soabsolutely repulsive as the Barbary Jew. He hugs hisdirt as he hugs his gold. By degrees we discovered that the Jew is not liableto conscription, that he is not taxed for the supportof the Kaids and the Sultan, and that, as comparedwith the Moor, his life and property are safe. Thoughan alien and despised people, they are the only sectionof the community to whom some measure of justice ismeted out. They are largely governed by their ownlaws, administered by their own Sheiks, and with theirown code of punishment. The Moor, for a trivial orno crime at all, is continually liable to be chained andthrown into the most horrible dungeon ; and no matterhow monstrous the injustice, not even his nearest rela-tive dares raise his voice in protest. The Jew knows. THE JEWS. 417 only prisons, comparatively sweet and clean, and wherechains are unheard of. Daring a period of confine-ment for any offence, he is allowed the occasional com-panionship of his wife or friends, and is even permittedto go into the town to transact business. The slightestinjustice done to a Jew is sufficient to convulse thewhole of Morocco, and set every European Minister atwork, by the united outcry of the Jewish community,who make every molehill a mountain, and every assaulta brutal murder. The Moor, on the other hand mio-htbe flayed alive or done to death with every conceiv-able torture, and not a soul in all the land wouldventure to make a remonstrance. We never oncebeard of a Jewish maiden suffering at the hands of aKaid or other official, whereas no J^oung woman of thedominant race was safe. Examine matters as wemight, we ever saw the advantage on the Jewish side—better laws, better treatment, g
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