The Burton Holmes lectures; . INTERMINABLEFLOWER-BEDS Our animals are hobbled in a the sur- roundnii^ darkness becomes protecting w a and we feel almost secure row before the tent, each with a heap of fresh green grass or clover. They eat all night ; and when we wake, startled by the cry of a jackal, or by a shout from one of the men on guard, we are sure to hear that music of nine munching mouths. It is our lullaby, and we fall asleep again to dream of Fez, the mysterious city which we shall enter on the morrow. On the eleventh morning of our journey this semblance ofa highway comes stragglin
The Burton Holmes lectures; . INTERMINABLEFLOWER-BEDS Our animals are hobbled in a the sur- roundnii^ darkness becomes protecting w a and we feel almost secure row before the tent, each with a heap of fresh green grass or clover. They eat all night ; and when we wake, startled by the cry of a jackal, or by a shout from one of the men on guard, we are sure to hear that music of nine munching mouths. It is our lullaby, and we fall asleep again to dream of Fez, the mysterious city which we shall enter on the morrow. On the eleventh morning of our journey this semblance ofa highway comes straggling from the south to meet us. Thecountless caravans, crawling toward the holy city, have cre-ated this illusion of a road — a road that will lead us in a fewshort hours to the gates of a great city, the fascination ofwhich, for him who has the slightest love of romance in hissoul, is irresistible. Fez is no banal, modernized, or tourist-ridden city, nor is it a mere heap of ugliness and ruin of no INTO MOROCCO. nowherk in particular which the only charm is a remoteness from the living- is a city that has been in its time one of the proudestand most splendid cities of the Moslem world. Its fall hasbeen so gradual that there has been no change, nothing buta slow decay, so gentle that it has not scarred old Fez, butbeautified it. Fez, like Venice, requires but a touch of theimagination, aided by the long shadows of the early morning,the mystery of twilight, or the silvery magic of the moonlight.
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