Identifier: tafiletnarrative00harr (find matches)
Title: Tafilet; the narrative of a journey of exploration in the Atlas mountains and the oases of the north-west Sahara
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Harris, Walter, 1866-1933
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Publisher: London, W. Blackwood and sons
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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ing on in Morocco, and how our little partyhad fared on the w^ay; and even more general thantheir interrogations were their protestations of wel-come. Very welcome they made us too, bringingfrom their various houses great dishes of food—plainstuff enough, but none the less acceptable — andkeeping the day as a sort of holiday. It may seem to the reader that almost every pageof this book contains references as to what we ob-tained to eat; but on a journey in which one tastedmeat only twice in a month, and when often wewalked forty miles with nothing more than datesor inferior dried figs to dine and sup and breakfaston, it is wonderful how important a souvenir devoyage is the remembrance of the rare occasions onwhich we satisfied our hunger, or, as on our arrivalat Dads, we did more, and actually had enough toeat and to spare. 158 DADS. I quickly made friends with the natives of theplace, and before our guests departed, so as to giveus an opportunity to sleep after our weary journey,
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Inside the Village of Ait bit Haddit, at Dads. we had arranged to meet again later in the after-noon, and walk about in the gardens which linethe river-banks. Meanwhile, I think some description ought to be THE INHABITANTS. 159 given as to the appearance of the men I found my-self among and their womenkind. Certainly of all the tribes and peoples that 1 havecome across in Morocco, those of Dads far exceedthe rest in good looks and handsome build. As arule, all the men are well above averag;e heioiit, grace-fully and strongly formed, withal possessing an ap-pearance of athletes. In colour they are fair, theeyes sometimes blue, but generally dark, while theeyelashes and eyebrows are black. The nose, con-trary to the general Berber type, is aquiline, and themouth finely cut and well shaped. Although theyfollow the rule of shaving the head, they do not,like the Arabs, allow the beard and moustache togrow, but entirely shave off the latter, and leaveonly a small pointed beard on the extrem

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