The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . rable quantity is sent to Marrakeshon camels. The chief articles exported are beans, maize,washed wool, olive oil, almonds, bees wax, cummin seedand gums. The trade of Safii is principally in the handsof two English firms of long standing, but there arerepresentatives of several other nations in business there,also several younger English firms. Since 1892 it hasbecome a station of the Southern Morocco Mission, andthere is a resident English doctor. The FranciscanFriars also have had a work here since 1889. The distance by land to Mogador is
The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . rable quantity is sent to Marrakeshon camels. The chief articles exported are beans, maize,washed wool, olive oil, almonds, bees wax, cummin seedand gums. The trade of Safii is principally in the handsof two English firms of long standing, but there arerepresentatives of several other nations in business there,also several younger English firms. Since 1892 it hasbecome a station of the Southern Morocco Mission, andthere is a resident English doctor. The FranciscanFriars also have had a work here since 1889. The distance by land to Mogador is about 60 miles, or sixteen hours ride, with a choice of routes, by the shore or inland. If the start by the shore To Alogador. . ^ ... . f^,.. route IS timed to meet a lalhng tide at SueiraKadima, the journey may be performed in about fourteenhours on good animals, or in twelve if a re-mount bearranged at Sidi Is-hak, the saint house half way. Thereverse journey should be commenced with the fall oftide. By sea the distance is about 56 A STREET OF MOGADOR. Photograph by the late Dr. Robert Brown. CHAPTER THE TWELFTH OPEN ruRTS—8 ESSUEIRA (MOGADOR) WITH a history dating only from 1760, when itwas built by Sidi Mohammed XVH. (bin AbdAllah) the town of Mogador lacks the charm of thatantiquity possessed by most of the Moorish ports. Low-lying,—on a spit of rock and sand jutting out r 1 • r TT 1 1-1 -11 AppcauiUie. Irom the province 01 Tiaha, winch with theisland opposite enclose a fairly safe port, — it is hardlyeven picturesque, and although presenting a welcomeglint of white walls from the Ocean, there is littleattractive about it. On the land side stretch miles ofwearisome sand-dunes, studded with broom—rising hereand there to over 400 bejond which are the arganforests, one of the features of Southern Morocco. Ap-proached from this direction, the city bursts upon onesview like a mirage between sky and sea, for amid thedrifting sand the flat white roofs and
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