Outing . oral, Kabyle matchlockrifles, ornamented sabers, and fragmentsof some rare old carpet to be used asprayer rugs. The proprietors sit cross-legged upon mats within their littleden-like stores. Sometimes a youngMoor will divert himself with a quainttortoise-shell guitar of two strings,upon which he thrums some of thosewild never-changing melodies of theArabs. Israelites crowd along, hagglingover their wares of calico and mus-lin, while donkeys laden with roses,and donkeys bearing ash - barrels andgarbage, wander at their own sweet 132 OUTING FOR NOVEMBER. will amid the stream of passers-
Outing . oral, Kabyle matchlockrifles, ornamented sabers, and fragmentsof some rare old carpet to be used asprayer rugs. The proprietors sit cross-legged upon mats within their littleden-like stores. Sometimes a youngMoor will divert himself with a quainttortoise-shell guitar of two strings,upon which he thrums some of thosewild never-changing melodies of theArabs. Israelites crowd along, hagglingover their wares of calico and mus-lin, while donkeys laden with roses,and donkeys bearing ash - barrels andgarbage, wander at their own sweet 132 OUTING FOR NOVEMBER. will amid the stream of entire street in the great bazaaris devoted to bric-a-brac stalls, wherethe odor of sweetmeats and henna isstrong. Here may be found glitteringmother-of pearl tables, Stamboul weap- knives, bronze perfume-holders, sandal-wood boxes from Mecca, with frag-ments of the Koran inscribed uponthem—it is a wilderness of novelties,and a study in color-contrasts to mad-den a figure-painter ; yachmahs, bur-. *ss«C A PATHWAY OF MYSTERY IN THE MOORISH QUARTER ons, fabrics from Damascus, brass trays,damascened daggers, bangles, pipes,famous scimitars, which remind one ofthe tales of the African magicians ofthe Arabian Nights ; executioners nouses and cloaks, in violet, rose-colorand pure white ; foulards twisted intosashes and turbans, the work of someMoorish designer, who labored andchose his tints according to the shades OVER DECOYS ON THE MISSISSIPPI. l33 in a box of butterflieswings before over the animation of the wholescene resound the almost impossibleconsonants, the gutturals of the Arabtongue, as they are whispered, insinu-ated, cried, and hurled from buyer toseller, from friend to acquaintance, frommaster to servant. The Israelites themselves, althoughmany of the younger women are ex-tremely handsome until the age ofseventeen, are red-lidded and crafty-looking. Their quarter of the town, how-ever, is worth seeing on Saturday, theJewish day of worship, all that is
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