The Burton Holmes lectures; . prkjldice pie may have come many miles to see. The fair one in themiddle bares her face in most immodest fashion : through anopening at least three quarters of an inch in width twopretty eyes of black are flaming ; and, indeed, it may be setdown as an almost invariable rule that the wider theopening twixt veil and haik, the prettier the eyes thatflash between. With maledictions on the prevailing style of dress forMoorish beauties, we ride on, passing Anally from the emptyspaciousness of New Fez into the crowded compactness of theold Medina. Here our pace
The Burton Holmes lectures; . prkjldice pie may have come many miles to see. The fair one in themiddle bares her face in most immodest fashion : through anopening at least three quarters of an inch in width twopretty eyes of black are flaming ; and, indeed, it may be setdown as an almost invariable rule that the wider theopening twixt veil and haik, the prettier the eyes thatflash between. With maledictions on the prevailing style of dress forMoorish beauties, we ride on, passing Anally from the emptyspaciousness of New Fez into the crowded compactness of theold Medina. Here our pace, always slow, must be madeeven slower ; our caravan winds at a careful walk into alabyrinth of narrow ways, so dark, so crowded, so redolent ofOriental life, so saturated with the atmosphere of Islam andthe East, that we are thrilled with pleasure at the thoughtthat we are for a space to become dwellers in this strangemetropolis and to live its life — a life so utterly unrelated tothat of the cities whence we come. 136 FEZ. ).M1ACTNKSS Ol THE OLD .Mi:ilINA First we must secure an abiding-place, for there are nohotels in Fez — at least none in which foreigners could liveand remain in possession of their self-respect and sanity. Theonly places of public entertainment are the Fondaks, wheremen and mules are lodged and fed. A glance through thedoor of the Fondak, where our own faithful animals werelater in the day entered as boarders for an indefinite period,proved how utterly preposterous it would be for us to dependupon the hotel resources of the capital. Although the packshave been removed, the pack-saddles, eacii a burden in not been taken off nor will they be until to-morrow forfear the animals uncovered while heated from exertion mightcatch cold, fall sick, and die. In fact, the mules have notbeen free from these cruel weights at any time during thejourney of eleven days. Why the idea of suicide does notappeal to the Morocco mule is but another of the unaccou
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