The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . the kaisariyah . , r 1 1 J Aiclillcctuial and one or two of the many fandaks and Features. several well-designed fountains, notably onesurmounted by a carved wooden cornice, and calledfrom its beauty Shrab 00 Shuf— Drink and best houses have to be reached by foul blind alleysstrewn with garbage and dead cats, winding in the dark-ness under rooms which have been thrown across them,designedly treacherous to all who do not know themwell. Very little paving is .seen, even in the best streets,which are fairly level, and wide for Morocco,
The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . the kaisariyah . , r 1 1 J Aiclillcctuial and one or two of the many fandaks and Features. several well-designed fountains, notably onesurmounted by a carved wooden cornice, and calledfrom its beauty Shrab 00 Shuf— Drink and best houses have to be reached by foul blind alleysstrewn with garbage and dead cats, winding in the dark-ness under rooms which have been thrown across them,designedly treacherous to all who do not know themwell. Very little paving is .seen, even in the best streets,which are fairly level, and wide for Morocco, terriblydusty in summer and fearful in winter. Many J . Streets. in the busiest quarters are covered over with stakes and matting or vines, and here the concourse is very great during the daytime. The tjuantity of sweet 3IO MARRAKESH herbs consumed, chiefly in tea, must be enormous, tojudge from the vast piles which distribute a most re-freshing odour from the middle of some streets. Thesethoroughfares are J crossed at intervals by clumsy gates. PUBLIC WATER-TROUGHAdjoining a mosque in Marrakesh. Photograph by Dr. Riiddiick. which are closed at night, thus dividing the city up intowards; one of these gates, Bab Kus, is but three feethigh, and rather less in width. The kasbah and madinah are administered by separateo-overnors and officials, the jurisdiction of the kaid of FOREIGNERS 311 the town including only the huts and [rardens beyond thewalls. The prison in the kasbaii, min Sbah,is principally used for those accused of serious . crimes or for political prisoners, that in themadinah for civil and minor offenders, who in partsupport themselves by platting palmetto, a speciality ofthe place being fans with bits of coloured cloth inter-woven. There is also a womens prison, chiefly for badcharacters from the street, and at the morstan there isa kind of prison for madmen, where those miserablewretches are left in chains. Soldiers are lodged in thecitadel, near the palac
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