Marocco and the Moors: being an account of travels, with a general description of the country and its people . boats come everyMonday most punctually, and many ^Jackal, belonging to Cowan & Co.,in Avhich I embarked, was a small butstrongly-built steamboat, Avell adapted for thetumbling water of the Straits. The mountainsof the African coast, which were in view whenleaving Gibraltar, stood out in bolder outlineas we approached them. But the first clearly-defined object was the ruin of a Koman bridge ^close to the shore, and a short distance east-ward lay the quaint old town. To do Ta
Marocco and the Moors: being an account of travels, with a general description of the country and its people . boats come everyMonday most punctually, and many ^Jackal, belonging to Cowan & Co.,in Avhich I embarked, was a small butstrongly-built steamboat, Avell adapted for thetumbling water of the Straits. The mountainsof the African coast, which were in view whenleaving Gibraltar, stood out in bolder outlineas we approached them. But the first clearly-defined object was the ruin of a Koman bridge ^close to the shore, and a short distance east-ward lay the quaint old town. To do Tangierjustice it should be viewed only from the sea—to put ones foot within the walls is to dispel anillusion. Its mosques and flat-roofed houses,batteries, and castellated walls give it a compactand even formidable appearance; but it is for-midable only to the wikl hordes of the This bridge has ahiiost all fallen now. The Duke of West-minster has a fine painting of it, taken some years before Isaw it, in his mansion in Park Lane. 2 It has been much fortified of late, even with TANGIER. 6 There is no harbour at Tangier; the mole builtby the English more than two centuries ago wasdestroyed by them when they abandoned the the anchorage in the open roadstead is coast is, however, subject to heavy surf,which is a drawback to all the southern ports. Our steamer anchored at a considerable dis-tance from the shore, and Marocco being advancedenough to value health, the first thing thatapproached was the quarantine boat, in whichsat a quasi-medical officer, an aquatic-lookingSpaniard, who, without coming on board, soondespatched the formalities of his office. Otherboats followed, into which the passengers trans-ferred themselves, and were rowed as far as theshoaling water permitted. As soon as thesegrounded, a crew of yelling Jews rushed to meetus, up to their waists in water, and then com-menced the fiercest competition for business pos-sible
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