In Morocco . , private apartments, slaves quarters,sunny prophets chambers on the roofs and bathsin vaulted crypts, the labyrinth of passages androoms stretches away over several acres of long court enclosed in pale-green trellis-work,where pigeons plume themselves about a great tankand the dripping tiles glitter with refracted sun-light, leads to the fresh gloom of a cypress garden,or under jasmine tunnels bordered with runningwater; and these again open on arcaded apartmentsfaced with tiles and stucco-work, where, in a languidtwilight, the hours drift by to the ceaseless musicof the
In Morocco . , private apartments, slaves quarters,sunny prophets chambers on the roofs and bathsin vaulted crypts, the labyrinth of passages androoms stretches away over several acres of long court enclosed in pale-green trellis-work,where pigeons plume themselves about a great tankand the dripping tiles glitter with refracted sun-light, leads to the fresh gloom of a cypress garden,or under jasmine tunnels bordered with runningwater; and these again open on arcaded apartmentsfaced with tiles and stucco-work, where, in a languidtwilight, the hours drift by to the ceaseless musicof the fountains. The beauty of Moroccan palaces is made up ofdetails of ornament and refinements of sensuousdelight too numerous to record; but to get an ideaof their general character it is worth while to crossthe Court of Cypresses at the Bahia and follow aseries of low-studded passages that turn on them-selves till they reach the centre of the , passing by a low padlocked door leading to a [ 130 ]. MARRAKECH crypt, and known as the Door of the ViziersTreasure-House, one comes on a painted portalthat opens into a still more secret sanctuary: Theapartment of the Grand Viziers Favourite. This lovely prison, from which all sight and soundof the outer world are excluded, is built about anatrium paved with disks of turquoise and blackand white. Water trickles from a central vasca ofalabaster into a hexagonal mosaic channel in thepavement. The walls, which are at least twenty-five feet high, are roofed with painted beams rest-ing on panels of traceried stucco in which is set aclerestory of jewelled glass. On each side of theatrium are long recessed rooms closed by vermiliondoors painted with gold arabesques and vases ofspring flowers; and into these shadowy inner rooms,spread with rugs and divans and soft pillows, nolight comes except when their doors are opened intothe atrium. In this fabulous place it was my goodluck to be lodged while I was at Marrakech. In a climate wh
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