Travels in the Atlas and Southern Morocco, a narrative of exploration . STREET IN KASBAH, MOGADOR. Page 68. MOGADOR. 69 visit to the Mellali. Led by an ordinary feeling ofcuriosity, or impelled by a sense of duty, the Europeantraveller strolls through the gate which gives entranceto a narrow street leading evidently into the heart of. JEW OF MOGADOR. the quarter, and which branches into a puzzling net-work of blind alleys and lanes. A little of the Mellah suffices; but the traveller, ifunaccompanied by a guide, is speedily lost in the laby-rinth, and gets ever deeper in the loathsome continuou
Travels in the Atlas and Southern Morocco, a narrative of exploration . STREET IN KASBAH, MOGADOR. Page 68. MOGADOR. 69 visit to the Mellali. Led by an ordinary feeling ofcuriosity, or impelled by a sense of duty, the Europeantraveller strolls through the gate which gives entranceto a narrow street leading evidently into the heart of. JEW OF MOGADOR. the quarter, and which branches into a puzzling net-work of blind alleys and lanes. A little of the Mellah suffices; but the traveller, ifunaccompanied by a guide, is speedily lost in the laby-rinth, and gets ever deeper in the loathsome continuousdunghill, over which he must tramp or wade. Unac- 70 MOROCCO. customed to tlie sight of a European stranger in theirquarter, the news spreads like wildfire among the inhabi-tants, and his movements are watched with eager curi-osity. He is stared at from every house-top and windowby dirty fat women, the grossest of their sex ; the door-ways and corners of the streets are crowded by meanand miserable-looking men, all of whom either squintor are blind, or are otherwise marked by some disease,and look the beau-ideal of cowardly villany or miserlygreed, as they canvass with low voice the why andwherefore of the strangers presence. A more forwardand obtrusive phalanx of impudent boys and idlersdog his footsteps or rush past him to
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