Tafilet; the narrative of a journey of exploration in the Atlas mountains and the oases of the north-west Sahara . m k0o. ?^?^ \: /? -^ i ..?. A Village Scene, honest, or dishonest if necessary, labour scrape to-gether the money — possesses a horse and a gun,while almost without excej)tion the Berber tribes 140 GHRESAT TO DADS. are mountaineers, and in this part of the country-own very few horses. An attack upon the phice isthus ahnost an impossibility, the Berbers on foothaving no chance against the mounted Arabs, who,by scouring the desert plains, can easily cut off allretreat. The inhabitan
Tafilet; the narrative of a journey of exploration in the Atlas mountains and the oases of the north-west Sahara . m k0o. ?^?^ \: /? -^ i ..?. A Village Scene, honest, or dishonest if necessary, labour scrape to-gether the money — possesses a horse and a gun,while almost without excej)tion the Berber tribes 140 GHRESAT TO DADS. are mountaineers, and in this part of the country-own very few horses. An attack upon the phice isthus ahnost an impossibility, the Berbers on foothaving no chance against the mounted Arabs, who,by scouring the desert plains, can easily cut off allretreat. The inhabitants appear to be well-to-do, and manywere handsomely dressed in spotless haiks of men are, as a rule, small of stature and wiry,with keen hungry eyes and fine features, and forma strange contrast in their appearance of cupidity andrascality to the honest ojDcn countenances of theBerbers. The odds being so vastly unequal in openwarfare, the latter race have almost desisted fromattacking the place—though the innate hatred of thetwo peoples finds ample scope in plundering one an-others caravans. Yet, rascals as are the Arabs of
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