. Life in Morocco and glimpses beyond . iver,one by one throws down his hard-earned coppers—one or two—and as if realizing what he has partedwith, turns away with a long-drawn breath to un-tether his beasts, and set off home. But exciting as are these acknowledged fictions,specimens are so familiar to most readers from thepages of the collection referred to that much moreinterest will be felt in an attempt to reproduce oneof a higher type, pseudo-historical, and alleged tobe true. Such narratives exhibit much of nativecharacter, and shades of thought unencounteredsave in daily intercourse with
. Life in Morocco and glimpses beyond . iver,one by one throws down his hard-earned coppers—one or two—and as if realizing what he has partedwith, turns away with a long-drawn breath to un-tether his beasts, and set off home. But exciting as are these acknowledged fictions,specimens are so familiar to most readers from thepages of the collection referred to that much moreinterest will be felt in an attempt to reproduce oneof a higher type, pseudo-historical, and alleged tobe true. Such narratives exhibit much of nativecharacter, and shades of thought unencounteredsave in daily intercourse with the people. Let us,therefore, seize the opportunity of a visit from anoted raconteur and reputed poet to hear his , indeed, would be the result of an endeavourto transfer to black and white the animated tonesand gestures of the narrator, which the imaginationof the reader must supply. The initial voluntary by the orchestra hasended; every eye is directed towards the centralfigure, this time arrayed in ample turban, white. ^ ^■^ > 5> (/3 <5 O Piwa, Q 2:^) o :3o»;o THE STORY-TELLER 141 jellab and yellow slippers, with a face betokeninga lucrative profession. After a moments silence hecommences the history of— MuLAi Abd el Kader and the MonkOF Monks. The thrones of the Nazarenes were once innumber sixty, but the star of the Prophet of God—the prayer of God be on him, and peace—was in theascendant, and the religion of Resignation [Islam]was everywhere victorious. Many of the occupiersof those thrones had either submitted to theLieutenant [* Caliph] of our Lord, and becomeMuslimeen, or had been vanquished by force ofarms. The others were terrified, and a generalassembly was convoked to see what was to be the rulers saw they were helpless against thedecree of God, they called for their monks to advisethem. The result of the conference was that it wasdecided to invite the Resigned Ones (Muslimeen) toa discussion on their religious differences,
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