Identifier: bywatersofcartha00loriuoft (find matches)
Title: By the waters of Carthage
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Lorimer, Norma Octavia, 1864-
Subjects: Tunisia -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Hutchinson
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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their parents from a purely com-mercial point of view. A Jewish wedding is one of the things I ought to see,and Bachir says that there is not the slightest difficultyin doing so. But somehow my appetite for things Jewishreceived a very great shock after watching the dancers.I doubt if I shall risk another Jewish entertainment. In Tunis, as elsewhere, the Jews (there are sixty thou-sand of them in Tunis, and as one Jew has more energyand mercantile enterprise, added to real intelligence, thanten Arabs or twenty Moors, you can imagine how mpor-tant they are) have almost every trade in their own hands.Even in the souks, where certain trades are still reservedfor Arabs, Jews really own the shops, for it is their moneywhich finances the business ; but they are astute enoughto make an Arab their agent and put his name over thedoor, and so put the necessary face on the affair. Whata clever, cunning, adaptable race they are ! They willstoop to almost any indignity and accept the scorn of all
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Photo Gariigms, Tunis.grocers shops and the ZITOUNA mosque IX THE TUNIS BAZAAR. Chapter XI 241 nations so long as they can get the thin end of the wedgeinto the commercial heart of things. I should still liketo hear the bells tinkling on their clothes to warn usof their approach, and I should like to see them un-bootthemselves as they pass a mosque. But in Tunis they have long had their commercialrights and are outwardly treated as equals with the othercitizens, and they mean to stick to them. Sidi-Mahrezwas more a friend to the enterprising Hebrew than tothe improvident Arabs, Im afraid, for since his day theyhave gone on increasing in numbers and in wealth andimportance until to-day. A Jew is the Beys Minister ofFinance, and Jews, not Mohammedans, have power andpatronage to bestow in native Tunis. There is, however,one means of livelihood in which they have no desire tooust the Arab, and that is agriculture. The Jqw is nodweller in remoteness apart from the haunts of men.His soul ho

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