The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . st here on May 24th, » For illustrations see The Moorish Empire^ pp. 107 and The inscriptions are translated in a note to p. 103 of The MoorishEmpire., where an illustration of one will be found. p. ^01. P- 83. Ri/NS OP SHELLA T77 1351, and Sept. i8th, 1349, respectively.* On accountof the sanctity of such a spot, until (juite recentl)ShcUa was closed against Christians and Jews, but nowits ruins provide a most pleasant spot for picnics, f PVom Rabat to Casablanca is 46 miles by sea, andabout 50 by land. * In the Raod cl Aaiids are giv
The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . st here on May 24th, » For illustrations see The Moorish Empire^ pp. 107 and The inscriptions are translated in a note to p. 103 of The MoorishEmpire., where an illustration of one will be found. p. ^01. P- 83. Ri/NS OP SHELLA T77 1351, and Sept. i8th, 1349, respectively.* On accountof the sanctity of such a spot, until (juite recentl)ShcUa was closed against Christians and Jews, but nowits ruins provide a most pleasant spot for picnics, f PVom Rabat to Casablanca is 46 miles by sea, andabout 50 by land. * In the Raod cl Aaiids are given the names of several ameers whowere buried here, as Vaivub II., wlio died in liis new palace at Algecirasin 1286; his sou Viisef IV., assassinated at Tlemgen in 1307, and Anir(Abu Thabit) who died at Tangier in 1308. and that of one woman, Ummel Az—The Heloved Mother—in 1284. Those whose graves remainwere of Liter date than the work in question. t !^ee the Athciiuiim of Sept. 18 and Oct. 30. 1875. for an account byT. Black mo re. « p. CHAPTER THE NINTH OPEN PORTS —5 DAR EL BAIDA (CASABLANCA) Nl^rrHER in point of history nor situation, nor evenfor what it is in itself, does Dar el Baida offerthe slightest attraction. It has never been, and probablynever will be, more than a trading port for the provincesof Tadla and Shawia, in the latter of which Position. it is situated on the south side of an open bay, at y^ 36 20 N. and 70 33 30 VV. It is about 130 m. or five days journey almost due north of Marrakesh. By sea it is distant from Tangier 160 miles. Dar el Baida has passed the stage in which Ali Bey found it, that of a small village with a great wall round it, but it has not yet assumed the dignity to , • , , , , , r t • Uislon: be imparted only by the march ol history. Once, it is true, there existed here a town called Anfa,-but all vestiges of that have so long disappeared, thateven in imagination one can hardly connect the its capture by the ame
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