Identifier: lifeinmoroccogli00meakuoft (find matches)
Title: Life in Morocco and glimpses beyond
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Meakin, Budgett
Subjects: Morocco
Publisher: London Chatto & Windus
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ejecting the water behind your handinto the basin which is held before you. Orange-flower water and incense now againappear, and you may be required to drink threemore glasses of refreshing tea, though this is some-times omitted at the close of a repast. Of course the feast of reason and the flow of soul have notbeen lacking, and you have been repeatedly assuredof your welcome, and invited to partake beyond thelimit of human possibility, for the Moor believesyou can pay no higher compliment to the daintieshe has provided than by their consumption. For a while you linger, reclining upon themattress as gracefully as may be possible for atyro, with your arm upon a pile of many-colouredcushions of embroidered leather or cloth. Then,after a thousand mutual thanks and blessings,accompanied by graceful bowings and bendings,you say farewell and step to the door, where yourslippers await you, and usher yourself out, not ill-satisfied with your initiation into the art of dining-out in Barbary.
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XIIDOMESTIC ECONOMY Manage with bread and butter till God sends the jam. Moorish Proverb. If the ordinary regulations of social life among theMoors differ materially from those in force amongourselves, how much more so must the minor detailsof the housekeeping when, to begin with, the husbanddoes the marketing and keeps the keys ! And theconsequential Moor does, indeed, keep the keys, notonly of the stores, but also often of the house. Whatwould an English lady think of being coolly lockedin a windowless house while her husband went fora journey, the provisions for the family being mean-while handed in each morning through a loopholeby a trusty slave left as gaoler ? That no surprisewhatever would be elicited in Barbary by such anarrangement speaks volumes. Woman has no voiceunder Mohammeds creed. Early in the morning let us take a stroll intothe market, and see how things are managed there.Round the inside of a high-walled enclosure is arow of the rudest of booths. Over portions of t

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