The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . tream, a handsomely decorat-ed building in which the sultan prays in a portionosqnes Pj screened off from the public gaze, entering bya door from the palace: that of Mulai AbdAllah: and El Hamra or the Red—with a prettilytiled roof,—which stands not far from a small old one,called El Baida or the White, with its minaret all askew,like a miniature tower of Pisa. So much for the Fez of to-day, by far the mostinteresting town in Morocco, both as to its history andits contents, well worth a visit from the intelli-gent explorer able to appreciate
The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . tream, a handsomely decorat-ed building in which the sultan prays in a portionosqnes Pj screened off from the public gaze, entering bya door from the palace: that of Mulai AbdAllah: and El Hamra or the Red—with a prettilytiled roof,—which stands not far from a small old one,called El Baida or the White, with its minaret all askew,like a miniature tower of Pisa. So much for the Fez of to-day, by far the mostinteresting town in Morocco, both as to its history andits contents, well worth a visit from the intelli-gent explorer able to appreciate and studythings Moorish. What it may become in a generationit would be bootless to guess. There is just a possibil-ity that it may still be the rambling city it now is, butthe chances are all in favour of its seeing many altera-tions ere that, in its inhabitants, if not in its stones. Itis by no means improbable that by that time the proudFasis may have to own a different master from the easy-going shareefs of the present dynasty. Who can say?. CHAPTKR THE IlFTEENTHIMPERIAr. CITIES—2MIKNAS (MEQUINEZ) LEAST imposino- of the three imperial cities, hardly-/ metropolitan in character, Mequinez has none the lessits special interests, and an important place in modernMoorish history. * Here Ismail the blood-thirsty heldhis Court, and here, in days when Moorish . Interest. pirates swept the seas, the European captivesfared their worst. From very early times some settle-ment appears to have existed on this spot, which isreferred to under its present name in the tenth century, but Idreesi, writing about iioo, describes the place, whichhe calls Takarart, as still an ordinary agadir . or citadel, surrounded by villages which after-wards coalesced to form the city. Consequently itsfoundation was marked by no flourish of trumpets, as itgradually rose out of a Berber settlement. Away to the south-east, between Fez and Oojda, liesthe home of what remains of the Miknasa tribe, whosemembe
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