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The Burton Holmes lectures; . NVKRSATION WITH KAID LHAKKI INTO MOROCCO 97 the west of Islam, died from the effects of too frequentlyperforming his favorite miracle — that of changing cham-pagne and brandy into water by pouring them between hissacred lips. The English wife of the wicked old Shareef bore him twosons, now young men. They have been educated abroad,speak English well, and are distinctly up to date. Yet whenthey travel in Mo- ^^ i^_ rocco they wear the n a t i \ etheir jour-a trium- /gress dress, andney is likephal pro-all the. peoplethem. Ilarge crowdsfighting only forto kiss their
The Burton Holmes lectures; . NVKRSATION WITH KAID LHAKKI INTO MOROCCO 97 the west of Islam, died from the effects of too frequentlyperforming his favorite miracle — that of changing cham-pagne and brandy into water by pouring them between hissacred lips. The English wife of the wicked old Shareef bore him twosons, now young men. They have been educated abroad,speak English well, and are distinctly up to date. Yet whenthey travel in Mo- ^^ i^_ rocco they wear the n a t i \ etheir jour-a trium- /gress dress, andney is likephal pro-all the. peoplethem. Ilarge crowdsfighting only forto kiss their gar- ^mmmmSBsr^ worshiphave seenin Tangierthe opportunityments as theyrode through the market-place. Neither, however, becamegrand Shareef on their fathers death, for he appointedSidi Mohammed, his son by a Moorish wife, the man towhom we gave the Waterbury watch. The English widowlives a very secluded life near Oran, in Algeria, but sheis loved and revered by the Moors ; for while her in-fluence endured, she went about doing good, relieving dis-tress, bringing a little Anglo-Saxon light into the dark livesof her people. 7 98 INTO MOROCCO And (lark indeed must be the lives of the people in thevillages near which we pitch our camp. Perhaps a womanwould, with i^reat vehemence, bid us bej^one, lamentinj; thedesolation that w ill surely come to her village if the strangerscamp under the protection of its chief. Her reason is thatshould we meet with loss from the attack of some wanderingband of marauders, this village will be held res
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