. Outing. a was those people who had conqueredSpain and built the Alhambra. What was going on inside of thosecurious flat-topped houses and those tow-ers? Marvelous matters, no doubt, thathad to do with nargileh and magic andscimiters and flying carpets and scarcelyperceptible nods to the executioner,always hovering among the draperiesin the background. The Patriarch camealong and explained that the Phoenicianshad been here and taken charge of thingsin their usual fashion, and then gone offand forgotten the place a thousand yearsor so before the Moors were ever heardof. Then the Repro
. Outing. a was those people who had conqueredSpain and built the Alhambra. What was going on inside of thosecurious flat-topped houses and those tow-ers? Marvelous matters, no doubt, thathad to do with nargileh and magic andscimiters and flying carpets and scarcelyperceptible nods to the executioner,always hovering among the draperiesin the background. The Patriarch camealong and explained that the Phoenicianshad been here and taken charge of thingsin their usual fashion, and then gone offand forgotten the place a thousand yearsor so before the Moors were ever heardof. Then the Reprobates appeared anddeclared that there was no romance any-where in sight and never had been inthat direction; that Morocco was justa place of wretched government and mis-erable people whose chief industries werelaziness and crime. There are moments when I would bewilling for this ship to sink to properlypunish the Patriarch and the Reprobatesfor disturbing my contemplations in that 37 38 THE OUTING MAGAZINE. OLD MOORISH CASTLE ON THE ROCK way. The Diplo-mat was said there wasas much romanceand magic overthere as ever, andmore execution-ers ; and theDiplomat would passCeuta, the Afri-can Pillar ofHercules, beforelong, he told us,and ventured theinformation thatthe other pillarwas the Rock ofGibraltar, whichlay still fartherahead. We went over to the other side ofthe ship presently, for we were over-looking the Bay of Trafalgar where alittle more than a hundred years agoHoratio Nelson died, after convincingthe combined navies of France and Spainthat it required something besides num-bers to win a victory. Nelson went intothat fight with thirty-two vessels, littleand big, against forty of the combinedfleets. He hoisted the signal, Englandexpects every man to do his duty, andevery man did it. One half of the com-bined fleets struck their colors, and therest made off, or sank, and with themwent Napoleon Bonapartes scheme forinvading England. We looked out on that p
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