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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eir blue veins, and plentyof Arab feeling about their women. There is a small museum at the Dar-el-Bey, butit contains little of first-class importance. Here, aswell as at the Bardo, there are texts from the Koranover doors and on the walls. Texts from the Koranare more decorative than texts from the Bible ; theymake fine splashes of colour. The court of justice where the Bey pronouncessentence on all sorts of criminals every Monday andThursday is not an imposing room. During his illnessI do not know who has been appointed his deputy, butI always meet bands of tattered and manacled prisoners,mere dregs of oriental humanity, being conducted bymembers of the Beys guard from the Dar-el-Bey to theBeys prison in the souks on Mondays and Thursdays.The prison door always stands wide open, but it isguarded by two soldiers with bayonets. In the prison it is horrible to see these wretchedcreatures pushing their hands and open mouths throughthe thick bars of their cells. As we passed up the wide
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Chapter X 189 passage, which had cells on each side of it, there was ageneral outcry of Hobbs, hobbs ! (Bread, bread!).Bachir told me that the prisoners depend entirely onthe generosity of the public and of their relatives fortheir food. The State does not support them. Theirgeneral appearance, I thought, spoke well for Mohammedancharity, for they all looked more fiendish than starving.And here I must say one word in favour of the Jews.They are (in Tunis) most liberal to the poor ; even theMohammedans, who hate them, admit that their charityis so great that it covers a multitude of sins. We bought some bread, and the guard distributedit amongst the various occupants of the cells. It wasjust like feeding the beasts at the Zoo. Those whowere waiting clamoured and shook the bars of theircages and leapt about with frantic greed. Some of thembegged for tobacco, a luxury we thought unnecessaryfor thieves. The view from the windows of the Dar-el-Bey is oneof the finest in Tunis. It is from t

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