The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . assisted by a vice-consul—six vice-consulates andthree consular agencies. Nearly all of theseofficials are merchants, of whom there is a <? ^ <- • considerable colony here, but the Jews are rapidlymonopolizing the local trade. Mogador boasts two smallhotels, besides the excellent Palm Tree House Sanitariuma few miles out—a centre for sport—and there areresident P^uropean physicians. Four Jewish schools flourish,two for girls, one suj^ported by the Anglo-Jewish .Associa-tion, the other private ; and two for boys, one of whichis French [
The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . assisted by a vice-consul—six vice-consulates andthree consular agencies. Nearly all of theseofficials are merchants, of whom there is a <? ^ <- • considerable colony here, but the Jews are rapidlymonopolizing the local trade. Mogador boasts two smallhotels, besides the excellent Palm Tree House Sanitariuma few miles out—a centre for sport—and there areresident P^uropean physicians. Four Jewish schools flourish,two for girls, one suj^ported by the Anglo-Jewish .Associa-tion, the other private ; and two for boys, one of whichis French [Alliance Israelite) the other English. 214 MOGADOR The three chief mosques are: that of El Kasbah inthe centre of the old kasbah, that of Sidi Hamed ooMohammed, close to the Sok Wakka, and that of SidiBen Yusef, near to the new kasbah. The Roman Catholics possess a chapel attended bya Spanish Franciscan priest and two lay-brothers, theirstation here dating from the year 1868. Eng-lish Protestant services are held in a chapel in Missioiii. MOGADOk BEACH FROM THE AQUEDUCT. Phoiograpli. by the Ho7t. E. W. Loch. the Mizpah, a large house built for business purposes,but afterwards for some time the head-quarters of theLondon Mission to the Jews. This Society has carriedon mission work here since 1875—it being the oldestestablished of those in Morocco,—and the SouthernMorocco Mission has been at work here since outside the Saffi Gate is the European cemetery, THE ISLAND 2»5 a small walK-d enclosure, one side of which receivesRomanists and the other Protestants. Both 111 LI- 1 -.• 1 Cemeteries. are well kept by public subscription, underthe direction of the consular Corps. Previous to 1862foreigners were compelled to bury their dead on a sand-hill. The Jewish cemetery is just beyond, unwalled—asthe local community is unable to provide this protec-tion,—and the Moors have their own walled jjlace apart. To the south of the town is a beautiful beach which
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