The Burton Holmes lectures; . hroughout the entire Moslem worldthis day of Aid-el-Kebir is celebrated. AtMecca, the fountain-head of the Moslem faith,a hundred and twenty thousand sheep are putto the knife at each recurrence of the in Tangier the feast may be likened toan ovine Saint Bartholomew Massacre, a day as fatal to thesewoolly victims as is Thanksgiving day to the devoted gobblersof New England. The city becomes a mammoth butcher-shop; the gutters in the narrow streets run red with escape these little tragedies, we make our way up to thehigher regions of the town
The Burton Holmes lectures; . hroughout the entire Moslem worldthis day of Aid-el-Kebir is celebrated. AtMecca, the fountain-head of the Moslem faith,a hundred and twenty thousand sheep are putto the knife at each recurrence of the in Tangier the feast may be likened toan ovine Saint Bartholomew Massacre, a day as fatal to thesewoolly victims as is Thanksgiving day to the devoted gobblersof New England. The city becomes a mammoth butcher-shop; the gutters in the narrow streets run red with escape these little tragedies, we make our way up to thehigher regions of the town, where the Palace of theGovernor, the Treasury Building, and the Prison arefound in close proximity to one another. Wefind the palace inaccessible, the treasury empty,and the prison full. The prison externally is a blank,white structure, high and in sad wantI of repair. We enter a small vestibule,where several lazy guardsare stationed; they indicatean opening in the wall, awindow, protected by heavybars and closed bv a thick. 1[% AN OVINE SAINT BARTHOLOMEW 52 INTO MOROCCO metal shutter. This, they say, is the unique means ofingress to the prison. No means of egress is required, forprisoners seldom come thence alive. A hasty glance througha round hole in the metal shutter reveals a filthy, spacioushall, crowded with animated mummies loosely wrapped inearth-colored tatters. We are told that no food is furnishedto the prisoners save that which may be brought by pitying
Size: 1488px × 1679px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectvoyages, bookyear1901
