The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . led vehicles have put in an appearance. Otherwise the means of locomotion, if not on foot, are horses, mules and donkeys, the last-named being hailed like cabs at the street corners, and employed by ladies when they do not wish to wear habits. The telephone has been established by private enterprise for several years. As for European society, the presence of the membersof the various consular and diplomatic services providesa polyglot and factious nucleus, for there are^ aopcan Ministers Plenipotentiary and Envoys Extra- ordinary* of Great B
The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . led vehicles have put in an appearance. Otherwise the means of locomotion, if not on foot, are horses, mules and donkeys, the last-named being hailed like cabs at the street corners, and employed by ladies when they do not wish to wear habits. The telephone has been established by private enterprise for several years. As for European society, the presence of the membersof the various consular and diplomatic services providesa polyglot and factious nucleus, for there are^ aopcan Ministers Plenipotentiary and Envoys Extra- ordinary* of Great Britain, France, Spain,Germany, Austria, Belgium, Portugal and Italy; a Min-ister Resident of Russia; Consuls-General of Austria, theU. S. of America and Brazil, besides Consuls or Vice-Consuls of of these nations, with their usual com-plement of Secretaries, Students, Interpreters and is also a goodly mercantile community, includingseveral Jewish families who mingle with the Europeans, ?••• Who are also i I i ?; a < -z io6 TANGIER while increasing numbers of private residents are attracted by the cUmate and surroundings. Several medical men of different tongues reside here, and good foreign shops have been opened, some of them English. Mails for the coast and abroad ^ . are made up by every steamer at the British, Conveniences. tr j j Spanish and French post-offices, which alsomaintain couriers to several points inland and along thecoast, the Moors only vaguely entering into what accounts for most of the local services is thefacility with which the stamps can be sold to col-lectors, far more being used for that purpose than forthe franking of letters, as the issues are changedwhenever the demand falls off. Since 1887 the EasternTelegraph Co. has had a cable from Gibraltar landedat Old Tangier and conveyed to a fine office outsidethe town; the Spanish Government had one from Tarifalaid by an Italian Company in 1891,
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