The Burton Holmes lectures; . \V/<TER CARRIERS the Moors. A dainty minaret, green-tiledand graceful, rises from this angular snow-bank; near it, theflags of foreign nations float above their respective consulatesand legations. Strange indeed this mingling of the Occi-dental and the Oriental, beautiful indeed this city of Tangier,the sentinel city of Morocco, posted here at the corner ofAfrica to watch with jealous eyes for the coming of theinevitable conqueror who is to sally forth from the gates ofChristendom, dimly discerned across the Gibraltar small account will be these batt
The Burton Holmes lectures; . \V/<TER CARRIERS the Moors. A dainty minaret, green-tiledand graceful, rises from this angular snow-bank; near it, theflags of foreign nations float above their respective consulatesand legations. Strange indeed this mingling of the Occi-dental and the Oriental, beautiful indeed this city of Tangier,the sentinel city of Morocco, posted here at the corner ofAfrica to watch with jealous eyes for the coming of theinevitable conqueror who is to sally forth from the gates ofChristendom, dimly discerned across the Gibraltar small account will be these batteries, furnished with anti-. INTO MOROCCO 33 quated cannon. These crippled dogs of war rend nothingmore tangible than air, and damage nothing but frequently is the air rent, and the ear assaulted, for thearrival of every man-of-war is greeted with a ferocious salvoof artillery, at sound of which the Moors gaze proudly sea-ward, expand their chests, recall the days when Moorishcorsairs ruled the seas, and dream of future victories for thearmies of the Prophet. The sunshine in this land is wonderful ; at seven in themorning it is so brilliant that we cannot bear the reflectionfrom the chalky housetops, and recover the use of our eye-sight only when in the dark and narrow corridors that servethe Tangerines in lieu of streets. The thoroughfare whichevery visitor must traverse when going from the hotel to thegreat or lesser market-places, is distinctly banal in is the leading shopping street of the European resi-
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