The Burton Holmes lectures; . is rabidh anti-foreisju. THE MOORISH EMPIRE 50I Rabat is commercial and comparatively cordial to Chris-tians, sheltering a little colony of European merchants andvice-consuls. Between the cities flows the Bu Ragreg, Father of Glit-tering, across which we must be ferried in crude flat-bot-tomed barges. To switch our baggage-train on to theferry-boat is a task that calls for much hard work and not alittle Arabic profanity. We must wait our turn ; for there are other caravans, withcamels, mules, and horses massed upon the sands. At lastour animals are all embarked wi
The Burton Holmes lectures; . is rabidh anti-foreisju. THE MOORISH EMPIRE 50I Rabat is commercial and comparatively cordial to Chris-tians, sheltering a little colony of European merchants andvice-consuls. Between the cities flows the Bu Ragreg, Father of Glit-tering, across which we must be ferried in crude flat-bot-tomed barges. To switch our baggage-train on to theferry-boat is a task that calls for much hard work and not alittle Arabic profanity. We must wait our turn ; for there are other caravans, withcamels, mules, and horses massed upon the sands. At lastour animals are all embarked with the exception of Bokhur-murs burro, who, accustomed only to fording, requires muchpersuasion before he will trust himself to this new-fangledcontrivance. During the brief period of calm that inter-venes between the embarkation and subsequent landing onthe Rabat beach, we look in admiration at the scene aboutus. Above the palisade on the south bank rises a noble half-completed tower. We have long since heard reports of HIS FIRST EMBARKATION ?02 THE MOORISH EMPIRE
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