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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Carthaginian columns so often that many ofthem have lost their clearness of outline ; the cavitiesin their deeply carved capitals are choked v/ith centuriesof lime ; and, what is still worse, some of them are asgaily painted as barbers poles. This Tunis, which issometimes called the white city of Africa, is white-washed from top to toe, just like a Welsh cottage.Everything in it is as white as chalk except the blackstripes on the horse-shoes of the stilted arches, thedark green tiles of the bulging domes which denotethe tombs of marabouts, and the exquisite turquoiseblue of the doors of the mosques and other sacredbuildings. Every narrow whitewashed alley which led fromsouk to souk had Arab houses behind its high walls,all with their backs turned resolutely towards the streetand their jealously shuttered eyes (for windows are theeyes of a house, arent they ?) looking down upon aninner courtyard. Occasionally a more pretentious housespanned the street by being built right over an arch-
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Photo Canigues, Tunis. MARKET OF THE DAR-EL-ISEY IN THE BAZAAR AT TUNIS. Chapter IV 57 way. When that was the case it had windows on everyside, but so high above the inquisitive gaze of man thatyou could not see a pair of dark eyes peering throughthe green shutters if you tried to. An Eastern city is so monotonously flat that all Icould see over the top of the high white walls of thesealleys (which were not under cover) were the soaringwhite minarets and the beetle-green domes of saintstombs. The flat roofs of the houses are a great con-venience, my guide told me, for not only do the womensit on them while they smoke and drink their coffee,but they can pass from house to house on them, andso pay calls on their friends without descending intothe forbidden streets. But even on the roof of herhouse an Arab woman must wear her black yashmak.Many of them never leave a harem after once they haveentered it, if they are of the better class. The roofsare their only promenades, and they are res

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