. Life in Morocco and glimpses beyond . baked in small round cakes, varnished, madeyellow with saffron, and sprinkled with gingellyseed. Most of the beef eoine alive to Malta,mutton is the staple animal food ; vegetables aremuch the same as in Morocco. The great drawback to Tripoli is its proximityto the desert, which, after walking through a beltof palms on the land side of the town—itself builton a peninsula—one may see rolling away to thehorizon. The gardens and palm groves are wateredby a peculiar system, the precious liquid beingdrawn up from the wells by ropes over pulleys, inhuge leathe
. Life in Morocco and glimpses beyond . baked in small round cakes, varnished, madeyellow with saffron, and sprinkled with gingellyseed. Most of the beef eoine alive to Malta,mutton is the staple animal food ; vegetables aremuch the same as in Morocco. The great drawback to Tripoli is its proximityto the desert, which, after walking through a beltof palms on the land side of the town—itself builton a peninsula—one may see rolling away to thehorizon. The gardens and palm groves are wateredby a peculiar system, the precious liquid beingdrawn up from the wells by ropes over pulleys, inhuge leather funnels of which the lower orifice isslung on a level with the upper, thus forming a discharge is ingeniously accomplished auto-matically by a second rope over a lower pulley, thetwo being pulled by a bullock walking down anincline. The lower lip being drawn over the lowerpulley, releases the water when the funnel reachesthe top. The weekly market, Sok et-Thldthah, held onthe sands, is much as it would be in the Gharb el. TRIPOLI VIEWED FROM MOROCCO 11,1 Jawani, as Morocco is called in Tripoli. Thegreater number of Blacks is only natural, especiallywhen it is noted that hard by they have a largesettlement. It would, of course, be possible to enter into amuch more minute comparison, but sufficient hasbeen said to give a general idea of Tripoli to thosewho know something of Morocco, without havingentered upon a general description of the what I saw of the country people, I have nodoubt that further afield the similarity between themand the people of central and southern Morocco,to whom they are most akin, would even beincreased. XXXV FOOT-PRINTS OF THE MOORSIN SPAIN Every one buries his mother as he likes. Moorish Proverb. I. First Impressions. Much as I had been prepared by the accounts ofothers to observe the prevalence of Moorish remainsin the Peninsula, I was still forcibly struck at everyturn by traces of their influence upon the country,especially i
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