Travels in the Atlas and Southern Morocco, a narrative of exploration . ch his work and subject himself to a flogging, andeventually to dismissal if he persists in his deliberateerror. That is how the descendants of the people whobuilt the Alhambra and made their reign in Spainglorious by their marvellous buildings encourage andfoster art in these days. After this digression let us resume the records ofour life in Morocco. The one great obstacle to our realising the everydaylife of the Moor, was the sad fact that we were Moor can in no way imagine life on earth, still lessin heav
Travels in the Atlas and Southern Morocco, a narrative of exploration . ch his work and subject himself to a flogging, andeventually to dismissal if he persists in his deliberateerror. That is how the descendants of the people whobuilt the Alhambra and made their reign in Spainglorious by their marvellous buildings encourage andfoster art in these days. After this digression let us resume the records ofour life in Morocco. The one great obstacle to our realising the everydaylife of the Moor, was the sad fact that we were Moor can in no way imagine life on earth, still lessin heaven, without the solacing presence of are his sole companions and friends at home,his dolls or toys, his entertainers, servants, everythingthat any one can well be to him. Without them hecan undertake no journey, and he cherishes them as LIFE IN MARAKSH. 379 the apple of liis eye. Not that it follows that he caresmuch for them in our sense of the term. On thecontrary, he may even go so far as to hate indivi-duals among them ; but he nevertheless cannot bear. niNERANT MUSICIAX. the, thought of others getting a glimjDse of the livingtreasure which has become distasteful to himself. Failing this prime essential of a Moorish existence,we had to fall back for a little variety in our mono- 38o . MOROCCO. tonous existence on sucli public entertainers as couldbe hired. Of these, none amused us more than theitinerant half-Negro half-Arab musicians from Susand the desert. These generally go about in pairs,got up in the most fantastic fashion, with rags, skins,bands of cowries, and iron bells about their legs andankles. One performs with a drum, the other with acurious species of iron double cymbals. Their anticsare of the most absurd description, and sometimesirresistibly comic. Their appearance and performance,however, had an added interest to me in bringingvividly to my memory entertainments of a similarcharacter in the Sudan, where I had first formed theidea of visiting Moro
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