The passing of the Shereefian empire . obliged to live inpeace at the capital, out in the country there arecontinual feuds springing up between the that Moulai el Hafid has been acknowledged,you will usually find consuls and some visitorswaiting about the courtyard for an audience withthe Sultan. Until he appears you pass the timewatching the troops at drill, and there is no morepicturesque and amusing spectacle than the Moor-ish Army forming square, breaking into column ofcompanies, or endeavouring to perform some othermanoeuvre. There are some 3000 men assembledunder their Caids,
The passing of the Shereefian empire . obliged to live inpeace at the capital, out in the country there arecontinual feuds springing up between the that Moulai el Hafid has been acknowledged,you will usually find consuls and some visitorswaiting about the courtyard for an audience withthe Sultan. Until he appears you pass the timewatching the troops at drill, and there is no morepicturesque and amusing spectacle than the Moor-ish Army forming square, breaking into column ofcompanies, or endeavouring to perform some othermanoeuvre. There are some 3000 men assembledunder their Caids, assisted by an English instructorand his interpreter. The troops do not showmuch zeal until the Sultan appears in person, butsquat on the ground listening to the numerousbands practising the opening bars of the few tuneswhich the musicians acquired during the palmydays of Sir Harry Maclean. The favourites areThe British Grenadiers, The Cock o theNorth, and—by a strange irony— The Marseil-laise. The troops are clad in any garments. A MOTLEY ARMY. 351 which the wearers have been able to grab fromthe barracks before coming on parade. There aresome in baggy kharki trousers and kharki tunics ;others in kharki trousers and red tunics; othersin red trousers and kharki tunics ; others in greentrousers and kharki tunics, or kharki trousersand green tunics; others in red coats andgreen trousers, or green coats and red trousers;others in white trousers and red coats, orred trousers and white coats; others inwhite coats and kharki trousers, or whitetrousers and kharki coats; others in purple coatsand kharki trousers, or purple trousers and kharkicoats; others in red and blue, green and red,yellow and red, or yellow and blue, and so on,until every admixture of colour is are proud possessors of boots, others onlyof shoes, others of Moorish slippers, whilst themajority tread the ground shod only with naturesleather. All wear the same head-dress, which isthe symbol of the mi
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