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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s can do just as theylike except enter the mosques, raid the harems, or inany way tread on the religious corns of the fanaticalnatives. And, my dear ! the French officers are superb!These splendid Chasseurs dAfrique have entirely alteredmy preconceived notions of the French Army. I canthelp looking at them as they stalk in to my hotel tolunch and to dinner—over six feet, every man jack ofthem. But, thank goodness ! they never let their eyeslight on strangers; and this, after the wandering eye of theunreserved Italian, is a relief and a surprise to any woman.The perfumer whose shop is just opposite to theone we sat in last night, belongs, I fancy, to the bluffingorder of that aristocratic profession, for I never saw himsell anything all the evening, and during the daytimehe has never once sprayed my hat or blouse or veil,when I have passed his shop, with heavy, scented perfumes.But such a strange thing happened that I must tell youabout it before I forget, though first let me mention
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PItoto Garrignes, Tunis. A RICH perfumers SHOP IN THE TUNIS BAZAAR. Chapter III 39 how surprised I was at the price of these Arab perfumes.I felt compelled to buy some from Monsieur Amour,for he had supplied us with lemonade and delicatelyscented cigarettes and coffee, and had opened for my in-quisitive eyes all the strange closed things in his shop,queer Eastern-looking boxes, full of queerer dyes,bags containing musk, and oh ! such wonderful scents.The essences of violet and jessamine seem to be the mostpopular with the Tunisians. I knew they were veryexpensive, so I thought I would be cautious. Jack wantedme to have a bottle about the size of a two-shilling bottleof eau-de-cologne, all covered with delicate goldtracery, full of essence of lilac—but I saw Bachirs eyesopen, and the Moor kindly asked him to tell me thatthe scent was three francs a gramme. Now I rememberedthat it takes eight grammes to make one ounce, accordingto the cover of my school exercise-book, but I did notin

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