Africa . given by de Amicis ofthe interior of the city, which was yet at one time knownas the Mecca of the west. To right and left are highdead walls, like those of a fortress, succeeded by loftyhouses without windows, but disclosing frequent rents andfissures ; streets now ascending precipitous steeps, nowleading down abrupt inclines, but always encumberedwith rubbish and refuse; numerous long covered passages,through which the wayfarer is obliged to grope his wayin the dark, occasionally running into blind alleys ornarrow dripping corners, strewn with the bones of ani- D 34 COMPENDIUM OF GEO
Africa . given by de Amicis ofthe interior of the city, which was yet at one time knownas the Mecca of the west. To right and left are highdead walls, like those of a fortress, succeeded by loftyhouses without windows, but disclosing frequent rents andfissures ; streets now ascending precipitous steeps, nowleading down abrupt inclines, but always encumberedwith rubbish and refuse; numerous long covered passages,through which the wayfarer is obliged to grope his wayin the dark, occasionally running into blind alleys ornarrow dripping corners, strewn with the bones of ani- D 34 COMPENDIUM OF GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL. mals and all sorts of garbage—the whole veiled in adim light, producing a most depressing effect on thespirits. In some places the ground is so broken up, thedust so thick, the stench so intolerable, the air so swarm-ing with buzzing mosquitoes, that one is fain to stop anddraw breath. From time to time we hear the rumbling ofa windmill, the splashing of water, the hum of the spindle,. A MA110CCO FUNDUK OH INN. a chorus of shrill voices, presumedly from some neighbour-ing childrens school; but to the eye nothing of all this isanywhere visible. We approach the centre of the city ;the streets become more thronged, men gazing at us inamazement, women turning aside or concealing themselves,children shouting and running away, or shaking their fistsat us from a safe distance. We come upon detachedfountains richly ornamented with mosaics, noble archwaysand courts encircled with graceful arcades. At last weturn into one of the main streets, about two yards wide. CITY OF FEZ. 6 0 We become the object of general attraction, every onepressing round us, so that the soldiers, under whose escortwe have been placed, find it difficult to keep us clear ofthe menacing crowds. Every moment we are obliged tostep aside in order to make room for some Moorish cava-lier, or for an ass laden with gory sheeps heads, or it maybe a camel bearing along some closely veiled Mahom-medan l
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