Travels in the Atlas and southern MoroccoA narrative of exploration . f Azamor. Another half-hour and we tumbled our horses andmules into a large ferryboat and crossed the WadUm er Rebia, on the overhanging ridge of whichAzamor is picturesquely situated, looking undoubtedlythe most striking town on the coast, though having nobuildings worth individual attention. We halted in the market-place to have a muleshod, regaling ourselves the while on walnuts andMoorish coffee. Finding nothing more interestingthan the old Portuguese fortifications to detain us,we resumed our march at mid-day. Two and a
Travels in the Atlas and southern MoroccoA narrative of exploration . f Azamor. Another half-hour and we tumbled our horses andmules into a large ferryboat and crossed the WadUm er Rebia, on the overhanging ridge of whichAzamor is picturesquely situated, looking undoubtedlythe most striking town on the coast, though having nobuildings worth individual attention. We halted in the market-place to have a muleshod, regaling ourselves the while on walnuts andMoorish coffee. Finding nothing more interestingthan the old Portuguese fortifications to detain us,we resumed our march at mid-day. Two and a halfhours later we entered the interesting little town of^lazagan, which in its snowy whiteness we had seen AZAMOR TO MOGADOR. 47 :ill the waj from Azainor in the must irritating appa-rent proximity. We rode at once to our Yicc-Consnl, for whom T wascharged with a letter of introduction from Sir KirbyGreen. He showed at once a gratifying alacrity ingiving us information about the only inn in the place,and even had the goodness to send a servant to showus tlie MMiKKT , AZAMOH. In the evening we strolled through the town, andadmiied the substantial nature of the work left behindby the Portuguese in the old days when they weremasters of the entire western littoral of ]\forocco. Among other examples of their enterprise wliicliremain is a good boat-harbour, the only one on thecoast; but indeed INlazagan, of all the towns, possesses 48 MOROCCO. the most striking remains of ]*ortuguesG workman-ship. Being well provided with letters of introduction tothe various merchants, we thought we could not dobetter than see what they were like and what theythought about things Moorish. Calling upon theprincipal one, we found him out, but shortly after,meeting him in the street, we introduced made us feel at once that he guessed we had anidea of writing a book, and had in consequence becomefit objects for his veiled sarcasm. Our hopes of get-ting a cup of tea vanished as
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