The Burton Holmes lectures; . A SYNDICATE OF BLIND ];.S 46 INTO MOROCCO his daily life ; his religious fasts and festivals are observedwith a strictness that is absolute. We chanced to witnessthe celebration of the great feast called Aid-el-Kebir. Theearly morning finds us on a hillside near the market, wherethere is gathered a multitude of spectral forms. Here theslanting rays of the newh risen sun draw out all shadows toa grotesque length, while from the midst of the assemblage. MOSIKM SAIAA ] IDNISrS there bursts a cloud of smoke ^\?hich like a veil concealsthe wild tribesmen who are
The Burton Holmes lectures; . A SYNDICATE OF BLIND ];.S 46 INTO MOROCCO his daily life ; his religious fasts and festivals are observedwith a strictness that is absolute. We chanced to witnessthe celebration of the great feast called Aid-el-Kebir. Theearly morning finds us on a hillside near the market, wherethere is gathered a multitude of spectral forms. Here theslanting rays of the newh risen sun draw out all shadows toa grotesque length, while from the midst of the assemblage. MOSIKM SAIAA ] IDNISrS there bursts a cloud of smoke ^\?hich like a veil concealsthe wild tribesmen who are there performing a fantasticpowder-play with old-fashioned noisy flintlocks. An hourlater the populace repairs to the high-walled garden of asuburban mosque to witness the sacrifice of a magnificentram. The ram, however, is not allowed to die in peace, foraccording to an ancient custom its bleeding bod} must beborne swiftly down through the city streets to the great
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