The Burton Holmes lectures; . jealously guarded bythe faithful ; the Jewor Christian wholingers on the thresh-old is rudely jostledby the passers-by,and if he does nottake the hint, a sud-den surging of thecrowd sweeps h i maway. Three morn-ings w ere devotedto vain attempts tobring the camera tobear upon thosegates. But finally afourth attempt, aided by strategy, met with success. Oppositeevery gate are groups of beggars, crouching in the narrowstreet. Strolling with ostentatious carelessness, the camera,wrapped like a paper parcel, under my arm, I pause beforethe beggars, my back turned to t
The Burton Holmes lectures; . jealously guarded bythe faithful ; the Jewor Christian wholingers on the thresh-old is rudely jostledby the passers-by,and if he does nottake the hint, a sud-den surging of thecrowd sweeps h i maway. Three morn-ings w ere devotedto vain attempts tobring the camera tobear upon thosegates. But finally afourth attempt, aided by strategy, met with success. Oppositeevery gate are groups of beggars, crouching in the narrowstreet. Strolling with ostentatious carelessness, the camera,wrapped like a paper parcel, under my arm, I pause beforethe beggars, my back turned to the sacred ^entrances, andfumble in my pocket for stray coppers. No one sees anyreason for interfering with the charitable stranger ; but,mingled with the chink of the coins dropped into the out-stretched palms, there might have been heard the clicks of aphotographic shutter, fired almost at random, and thesepictures here shown are the rewards of my charity, so hypo-criticallv bestowed. I had had faith in my ability finally to. A KIOSK OF THK KARUEEIN i68 FEZ accorn])lish my sinful task ; I liad been buoved up for thehope of success, but while I had not charity, my efforts didnot profit me. Idle Karueein is the greatest educational institution ofwestern Barbary. Nor must we smile to hear it called by soproud a name. Its past entitles it to the respect of theworld. It ranked with the great colleges of Moorish Spain —with Cordova itself — as a seat of learning, and hither camenot only Moslems, from all corners of Islam, but also noblegentlemen from England, France, and Spain, to completetheir educations. Yes, as we glance into another patio,where a green tiled kiosk recalls the Court of the Lions of the Alhambra, we mustnot forget that herephilosophy onceflourished, here as-tronomy, mathemat-ics, and m e d i c i n eonce were more fullydeveloped than atany other place inthe contemporaryworld. In the inac-cessible library of theKarueein, the lostbooks of Euclid aresaid to be mol
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