The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . ted pottery andcoloured tiles. The gold- and silver-smiths also turn outsome passable work, and much silk embroidery is producedin private houses. As in the other capitals, each trade has a district or street devoted mainly to its activities, and there is a kaisariyah, or covered market for the sale of Markets. textiles; this, however, bears no comparison with that of Marrakesh, as the passages are narrow and the shops are small: business, nevertheless, is brisker, which is the main point. The entrances are crossed by / bars to prevent the i
The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . ted pottery andcoloured tiles. The gold- and silver-smiths also turn outsome passable work, and much silk embroidery is producedin private houses. As in the other capitals, each trade has a district or street devoted mainly to its activities, and there is a kaisariyah, or covered market for the sale of Markets. textiles; this, however, bears no comparison with that of Marrakesh, as the passages are narrow and the shops are small: business, nevertheless, is brisker, which is the main point. The entrances are crossed by / bars to prevent the ingress of horses, mules and like ^^^^^ intruders. By the side of this is the Attarin, or Spice BUSINESS QUARTERS 257 Bazaar, the most important street for shops, and one ofthose which is covered in. Old Pez is decidedly the business section of the town,while New Fez is occupied principally by the Govern-ment cjuarters and the mellah. In Old Fezare some very «^ood caravan-sarais or yardssurrounded by two or three storeys of mer- A FANDAK OK 1>U1!L1C PLACE OF BUSINESS. Photograph by R. J. Moss, Esq. chants offices and sample rooms. The most importantare those of the Najjarin (Carpenters), the Kottanin(Cotton-spinners), the Shrabbeleein (Slipper-makers), theSharratin (Rope-makers), the Attarin (Spicers), and theSara (or Shady), the names being those of the streets 17 258 FEZ in which they are situ^ited, all save one so called fromthe trades plied therein. Jackson estimated the numberof fandaks of three storeys a century ago as two hundred,with fifty to one hundred rooms apiece. The Najjarin,in which several of the leading Jews have their offices,was sacked by the populace in 1747, when three thou-sand kaftans* stored there by Mulai Abd Allah weretaken. Till within the last few years there were no Europeansestablished in business in Fez, but it was frequentlyvisited by travellers f in search of orders, who^ have, however, grown fewer of late years. Inaccord
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