The Burton Holmes lectures; . ()U vague glimpses. KTYAKfl 1)1- Mil-; : N FEZ 167 of its dark corridorsand sunlit patios arethe result of oft-re-peated efforts, risks,and entrances arejealously guarded bythe faithful ; the Jewor Christian wholingers on the thresh-old is rudely jostledby the passers-by,and if he does nottake the hint, a sud-den surging of thecrowd sweeps h i maway. Three morn-ings w ere devotedto vain attempts tobring the camera tobear upon thosegates. But finally afourth attempt, aided by strategy, met with success. Oppositeevery gate are g
The Burton Holmes lectures; . ()U vague glimpses. KTYAKfl 1)1- Mil-; : N FEZ 167 of its dark corridorsand sunlit patios arethe result of oft-re-peated efforts, risks,and entrances arejealously guarded bythe faithful ; the Jewor Christian wholingers on the thresh-old is rudely jostledby the passers-by,and if he does nottake the hint, a sud-den surging of thecrowd sweeps h i maway. Three morn-ings w ere devotedto vain attempts tobring the camera tobear upon thosegates. But finally afourth attempt, aided by strategy, met with success. Oppositeevery gate are groups of beggars, crouching in the narrowstreet. Strolling with ostentatious carelessness, the camera,wrapped like a paper parcel, under my arm, I pause beforethe beggars, my back turned to the sacred ^entrances, andfumble in my pocket for stray coppers. No one sees anyreason for interfering with the charitable stranger ; but,mingled with the chink of the coins dropped into the out-stretched palms, there might have been heard the clicks of aphot
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