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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cting they were ?). And nowAllah is my God and Mohammed is His prophet, andwith my deepest-drawn breath I wish—oh ! how I wish—that I could speak Arabic and that I had read theKoran, for then this yashmak which veils the East fromthe West would be lifted; I should see and understand.The Koran is the best guide to the ways, customs, andhabits of the people of any Mohammedan country. 1 have been in the Souks (bazaars), and it is truethat there above all other places you can hear the East a-calling ; it is there that you forget that Tunis isunder French protection and that it has fine boulevardsand theatres and a Petit Louvre, for all that is onthe other side of the horse-shoe gate (the Porte de France,as it is called), and my hotel is within it. It is in thebazaars before midday that you get a glimpse of how thepeople live, for the pulse of the city is there, if an Arabcity has a pulse—it seems to me to beat very feebly. Thething that strikes one most about these delicate-featured
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Photo Cay>igHe%, Tunis. A CAMEL-DRIVER. Chapter II 13 stately Moors and Arabs is their total indifference toeverything except how they look ; that they do care about,for they are one and all dressed like the resplendentheroes in the Arabian Nights. My first impression ofthem is that they seem to sleep a great deal (rolled uplike fat pigs in white burnouses on the small floors oftheir cupboard-like shops), smoke a great deal, pray agreat deal, eat very little, and leave Allah to do allthe rest. Truly their trust in Allah is profound, andtheir unconsciousness of Time is superb. But this lofty indifference to the present makes verypoor business men of them, and I expect that Allah,like all wise masters, prefers to help those who helpthemselves ; and while the Maltese and Jews cadge forpatronage and pester you to look at their goods, evenif you dont mean to buy any, the Arab sits in scornfulsilence, surrounded by his wares, waiting till Allah sendsa customer. Among all the five hundredbywatersofcartha00loriuoft

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