Identifier: travelsinatlass00thom (find matches)
Title: Travels in the Atlas and Southern Morocco, a narrative of exploration
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Thomson, Joseph, 1858-1895
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Publisher: London, Philip
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ernment officials, the Medinah or Moorish quarter,and the Mellah or Jews town. In the Kasbah Euro-peans and European-Jews reside. Though the town presents few noteworthy points ofinterest in respect of its architecture, in other ways,like all Oriental towns, it is replete with little picturesand glimpses of life which cannot fail to delight thetraveller. One can never tire strolling about, peepinginto the little workshops, and seeing the artisans work-ing away in the quaint primitive fashion which hasexisted unchanged for centuries. The markets, too,form an animated panorama of scenes of inexhaustiblevariety, whether it be during the day, when buyer andseller eagerly haggle over the various articles exposedfor sale, or towards evening, when the finer splendourof the sun is softened in the west, and strollingmusicians, storytellers, snake-charmers, or readers ofthe sacred book gather round them attentive circles oflisteners or onlookers. Less agreeable are the impressions conveyed by a
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STREET IN KASBAH, MOGADOR. Page 68. MOGADOR. 69 visit to the Mellali. Led by an ordinary feeling ofcuriosity, or impelled by a sense of duty, the Europeantraveller strolls through the gate which gives entranceto a narrow street leading evidently into the heart of

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