The Burton Holmes lectures; . A PLACK OF WHITED SEPULCHERS reside in Fez, and then with a keener interest the secretarylistened to the incredible figures relating to the movements ofwheat and corn and to the shipments of beef and , as a , we launched enthusiastically into porkstatistics, but our spokesman checks us with the caution : Hush ! Dont shock his ; remember his relig-ious prejudices. Dont say a word about the pigs. Youknow the Moslem eats no pork. Therefore we leave ourhost unenlightened regarding the pet industry of our FEZ 195 The n
The Burton Holmes lectures; . A PLACK OF WHITED SEPULCHERS reside in Fez, and then with a keener interest the secretarylistened to the incredible figures relating to the movements ofwheat and corn and to the shipments of beef and , as a , we launched enthusiastically into porkstatistics, but our spokesman checks us with the caution : Hush ! Dont shock his ; remember his relig-ious prejudices. Dont say a word about the pigs. Youknow the Moslem eats no pork. Therefore we leave ourhost unenlightened regarding the pet industry of our FEZ 195 The next day we devote to the Jewish quarter, a distinctand separate city, called the Mellah. We approach itthrough the Hebrews burial ground, a place of whited sepul-chers, dwellings for the dead, and dingy huts, temporaryabodes for living men and women ; for there are two popula-tions in the Jewish cemetery, a iixed population of the wealthydead, a passing population of the living poor. You mustremember that in these Moorish cities the Jews are still com-pelled to dwell apart from true believers. Their houses areconfined in the restricted Mellah, where no provision wasoriginally made for an increase of population. Therefore thepoorer and the weaker Jews have been squeezed out of itsgates and have found refuge here in the city of the dead,where they have built crude huts and begun life anew. Thestreets or passageways are, however, far cleaner than thoseof the in-ner Mel-lah, andwe cannotbut agreethat resi-d e n c e in
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