Travels in the Atlas and southern MoroccoA narrative of exploration . SAFlI TO THE CITY OF MOROCCO. 115 mous ngly wintlowless prison, forming a quadrangle ofplain unornaraenteJ and unLrokeu walls. Inside, how-ever, it offers more varied and picturesque are long vaulted and dimly-lighted corridors,opening into all sorts of unexpected nooks and myste-rious rooms; there, grassy courts where fountainshave splashed among beds of roses. Here are still to. COURT IN PALACK, SAFFI. be seen the rooms of the harem, where, unseen them-selves, the Sultans ladies could look down on the townslo
Travels in the Atlas and southern MoroccoA narrative of exploration . SAFlI TO THE CITY OF MOROCCO. 115 mous ngly wintlowless prison, forming a quadrangle ofplain unornaraenteJ and unLrokeu walls. Inside, how-ever, it offers more varied and picturesque are long vaulted and dimly-lighted corridors,opening into all sorts of unexpected nooks and myste-rious rooms; there, grassy courts where fountainshave splashed among beds of roses. Here are still to. COURT IN PALACK, SAFFI. be seen the rooms of the harem, where, unseen them-selves, the Sultans ladies could look down on the townsloping seaward ; and there stands still the colonnadedjiatio of the Sultan, from which open his audience-chamber and his private apartments, all beautified bythe hand of the artist in stucco arabesque, in carvedwoodwork, and brilliant painting, the delicate tracing ii6 MOROCCO. and lace-like intricacy of tlic designs being indescrib-able. At the back of the palace still stands a Portuguesefort and bastion. From this coign of vantage we canlook down upon the massive and picturesque ruins ofthe palace and the gleaming town fanlike spreadingout from it. As we trace the fine sweep of the bay,open to the south-west, we can easily understand whySaffi is the most dangerous port on the coast in thewinter-time, when winds from that quarter easy is it to understand how Saffi is also one of thehottest towns in summer, and broils under a tempera-ture from I
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