The Burton Holmes lectures; . FEZ 129. Christian so detiles the atmos-phere that good Mohammedansmust needs cleanse their mouthsand nostrils after he has passed. And now one of the great gates of New Fez looms beforeus. We enter. For a moment a dampness like that of atunnel wraps its cool refreshing blackness about us, and thenwe emerge into a spacious age-worn court, which shows usthat the adjective new applied to this strange, almostdeserted quarter has only a comparative significance. Thereis in the entire city nothing that is really new. And yet thisis not strictly true, for on our right w
The Burton Holmes lectures; . FEZ 129. Christian so detiles the atmos-phere that good Mohammedansmust needs cleanse their mouthsand nostrils after he has passed. And now one of the great gates of New Fez looms beforeus. We enter. For a moment a dampness like that of atunnel wraps its cool refreshing blackness about us, and thenwe emerge into a spacious age-worn court, which shows usthat the adjective new applied to this strange, almostdeserted quarter has only a comparative significance. Thereis in the entire city nothing that is really new. And yet thisis not strictly true, for on our right we see a gateway freshlyplastered, freshly painted in pale blue, with piles of cannonballs upon the top of its pilasters. It is the recently estab-lished arsenal of the Sultan. For the Sultan, though averseto progress and to civilization, has not hesitated to adopt that I30 FEZ which is most barbarous in our science, — the modern methodsof destruction ; and here he manufactures death-deahng in-struments Hke those invented by the Chri
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