. Life in Morocco and glimpses beyond . but they are far from being stalwart frames and sturdy independence fitthem for anything, although the latter quality keepsthem aloof, and has so far prevented intercoursewith the outside world. Many have their own pet theories as to theorigin of the Berbers and their language, not afew believing them to have once been altogetherChristians, while others, following native authors,attribute to them Canaanitish ancestors, and eth-nologists dispute as to the branch of Noahs familyin which to class them. It is more than probablethat they are one
. Life in Morocco and glimpses beyond . but they are far from being stalwart frames and sturdy independence fitthem for anything, although the latter quality keepsthem aloof, and has so far prevented intercoursewith the outside world. Many have their own pet theories as to theorigin of the Berbers and their language, not afew believing them to have once been altogetherChristians, while others, following native authors,attribute to them Canaanitish ancestors, and eth-nologists dispute as to the branch of Noahs familyin which to class them. It is more than probablethat they are one with the ancient Egyptians, who,at least, were no barbarians, if Berbers. But allare agreed that some of the finest stocks of southernand western Europe are of kindred origin, if not S6 LIFE IN MOROCCO identical with them, and even if this be uncertain,enough has been said to show that they haveplayed no unimportant part in European history,though it has ever been their lot to play behind thescenes—scene-shifters rather than C uo o c < < VTHE WANDERING ARAB I am loving, not lustful. Moorish Proverb. Some strange fascination attaches itself to the simplenomad life of the Arab, in whatever country he befound, and here, in the far west of his peregrina-tions, he is encountered living almost in the samestyle as on the other side of Suez ; his only roofa cloth, his country the wide world. Sometimes thetents are arranged as many as thirty or more in acircle, and at other times they are grouped hap-hazard, intermingled with round huts of thatch, andoblong ones of sun-dried bricks, thatched also; butin the latter cases the occupants are unlikely tobe pure Arabs, for that race seldom so nearly ap-proaches to settling anywhere. When the tentsare arranged in a circle, the animals are generallypicketed in the centre, but more often some are tobe found sharing the homes of their owners. The tent itself is of an oval shape, with a woodenridge on two poles across the middle
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