The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . ent Empire breaks up. ]S[—Yox such facts concerning Unknown Morocco as it has beenpossible for foreigners to glean from natives, the reader is referred toLe Maroc Inconmt^ by M. Mulieras. MM. De la Martiniere and De laCroix also have compiled four large volumes of Documents sur le Nord-ouest Afrique^ but as these are French Government property, their circula-tion is prohibited. The method adopted by these scholars, of piecingtogether native reports, is most ingenious, and pending exploration, invalu-able. From time to time we are pres
The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . ent Empire breaks up. ]S[—Yox such facts concerning Unknown Morocco as it has beenpossible for foreigners to glean from natives, the reader is referred toLe Maroc Inconmt^ by M. Mulieras. MM. De la Martiniere and De laCroix also have compiled four large volumes of Documents sur le Nord-ouest Afrique^ but as these are French Government property, their circula-tion is prohibited. The method adopted by these scholars, of piecingtogether native reports, is most ingenious, and pending exploration, invalu-able. From time to time we are presented with fresh maps produced bythis system, in which nothing is left in doubt, but the minutest detailsare filled in with the precision of a trigonometrical survey. The French-man as a student is nothing if not sublimely self-confident. Yet a map ofNorth-Morocco published by our own War-Office within a decade showsan arm of the sea running up the hill behind Tangier: but perhaps thisinformation was intended for the French. PART III-EXPERIMENTAL. ^ &1 CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FIRSTREMINISCENCES OF TRAVEL THAT first night out in Barbary ! How can I forgetit? And to how many others has it not led inmany a land! Cook had not then invaded Morocco,and travellers made their own arrangements, as residentsstill do, keepin:^ their outfit in store. Indeed,an important part is played in the fully C(\\\\\> establishment in Morocco, whether Euro-pean or Moorish, by the tents and their furniture, re-quisitioned from time to time for an outing or journey,since he who travels in Morocco must take house andprovender with him. A formidable undertaking, therefore, is the start, withforty things to be remembered, and a constant deter-mination to do without this or that which will ^ ,, , . Camp Oiiljit. be an encumbrance. The trouble is to learnhow many of the things in everyday use within wallscan in camp be dispensed with, and how many triflingmatters of which one would never thi
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