The Burton Holmes lectures; . H n n IM, I 111-. lI-lCIXiLlNGS THE MOORISH EMPIRE 271. j-rc^As^ Our caravan files west-ward across the plain,which is as peaceful as asummer sea. We trav-erse patches of color, big-ger than townships, wherethe earth is steeped in thecrimson of anemones, orthe yellow of ^^ At midday, while the sunhangs almost in the zenith,and the mules trample ontheir own shadows atevery step, an incidentbreaks themonotonv TIDINGS OF TROUBLE ofour ever silent progress. A solitary manon the horizon, his hooded headthe only thing that rises abovethe level of the weeds
The Burton Holmes lectures; . H n n IM, I 111-. lI-lCIXiLlNGS THE MOORISH EMPIRE 271. j-rc^As^ Our caravan files west-ward across the plain,which is as peaceful as asummer sea. We trav-erse patches of color, big-ger than townships, wherethe earth is steeped in thecrimson of anemones, orthe yellow of ^^ At midday, while the sunhangs almost in the zenith,and the mules trample ontheir own shadows atevery step, an incidentbreaks themonotonv TIDINGS OF TROUBLE ofour ever silent progress. A solitary manon the horizon, his hooded headthe only thing that rises abovethe level of the weeds and last he comes within hailing dis-tance, and we exchange is a courier, bearing dispatchesto Mequinez. He speaks excitedlyto Haj, who listens to his wordswith visible anxiety, for he conveystidings of trouble from the is the old story of inter-tribalhostilities, of Beni-Zimour razziasin the Beni-Hasan plain, of Beni-Hasan retaliatory trips into thehill-country of the village of Twazit, where we
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