The Burton Holmes lectures; . I III-. INTO MOROCCO 23. THE HARBOR F 1 ANoIKK unimportant pieces of real estate, — the island of Bombay infar-off India, and this city of Tangier at the Mediterraneanswestern gate. Strange indeed the fate of these two bits ofreal estate. Bombay, the hopeless, far-away possession,became in time the glorious Indian Empire. Tangier, withits unrivaled situation at one of the great doorways of thewestern world, was held for twenty years, and then, throughsheer stupidity, abandoned to barbarism. It \vas returned byEngland to the Moors as a free gift ; a transact
The Burton Holmes lectures; . I III-. INTO MOROCCO 23. THE HARBOR F 1 ANoIKK unimportant pieces of real estate, — the island of Bombay infar-off India, and this city of Tangier at the Mediterraneanswestern gate. Strange indeed the fate of these two bits ofreal estate. Bombay, the hopeless, far-away possession,became in time the glorious Indian Empire. Tangier, withits unrivaled situation at one of the great doorways of thewestern world, was held for twenty years, and then, throughsheer stupidity, abandoned to barbarism. It \vas returned byEngland to the Moors as a free gift ; a transaction almostunique in Britains history. But we must not forget thatGilbraltar was not }et a cushion for the British lion s paw ;had it been so, another paw \\ould have rested firml} on thisMoorish shore, insuring to England absolute control of theGilbraltar Strait. But if the Anglo-Saxon armies long since relinquishedthis invaluable prize, the Anglo-Saxon tourist has madeTangier his own. Having passed the solemn Moors who sitat the water-gate at receipt of
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