The Burton Holmes lectures; . ounts uponhis prudish neighbors for a new garb. Altogether, he isdecidedly eccentric even for a madman ; and he must be very FEZ 187 mad, for he either refuses money, or, when it is thrust uponhim, tosses it away to other beggars who are always crouch-ing near. Toward the close of our visit we managed to scrapeacquaintance with the servants of another neighbor. Onewas a veiled woman, who would smile at us through hermask, and another a fat negress slave, as unctuous and good-natured as any Mississippi mamm^^ And are there reallyslaves in Fez? some one may ask. The
The Burton Holmes lectures; . ounts uponhis prudish neighbors for a new garb. Altogether, he isdecidedly eccentric even for a madman ; and he must be very FEZ 187 mad, for he either refuses money, or, when it is thrust uponhim, tosses it away to other beggars who are always crouch-ing near. Toward the close of our visit we managed to scrapeacquaintance with the servants of another neighbor. Onewas a veiled woman, who would smile at us through hermask, and another a fat negress slave, as unctuous and good-natured as any Mississippi mamm^^ And are there reallyslaves in Fez? some one may ask. There are ; and everyday in a certain remote and cheerless market-place youngnegresses are sold at auction. Seldom, however, does astranger witness this trafficking in human flesh. At hisapproach, buyers and sellers, slaves and auctioneers, mys-teriously vanish. Thrice we found the market-place , owing to the skillful manceuvering of our guide, we sur-prised the market in full swing, and saw six little negro girls,. THE PALACE OF A RICH OFFICIAL i88 FEZ
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