Identifier: travelsinatlasso00thom (find matches)
Title: Travels in the Atlas and southern Morocco. A narrative of exploration
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Thomson, Joseph, 1858-1895
Subjects: Morocco -- Description and travel Atlas Mountains
Publisher: New York : Longmans, Green, and co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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much out at the elbows,and utterly careless of its personal appearance. Andyet, as we persevered in our exploration, and got ridof our preconceived notions, with all its air of dilapida-tion the city again began to grow upon us. In themost unexpected places, often midst tumbling ruinsand all the signs of rapid decay, we were continuallyattracted by a group of palms or the sight of someinteresting example of Moorish workmanship. Here it was a fountain on which the artist had
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FOUNTAIN IN MOROCCO. MARAKSII, OR CITY OF MOROCCO. 131 lavished all the wealth u( his Oriental iinagiuation,aud shown all his manipulative skill in stucco, wood-caiving, tile-wurk, and colour. There it was thehorse-shoe-shaped doorway of a mosque overhung witheirective mouldings. Vic got delightful hasty glimpses of mosque interiors,too, all the more attractive because forbidden andpartaking of a spice of danger. These displayed coolaisles and beautiful wall-decoration in stucco, arabesque,and tile-work. There in the subdued light, near theMihrab, pious Moslems could be seen prostrating them-selves before the one God, and shady colonnadessurrounded marble-paved courts, where sparkling foun-tains cooled the air. It was not, however, in its architectural featuresthat we found the special charm of Morocco. As in allOriental cities, it was its people and its street-scenesthat gave the most picturesque effects. The verybeargars carried their rags with such an air—theva))pealed to the pas

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