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Marocco and the Moors: Being an Account of Travels, with a General ... Richard Francis Burton,Arthur Leared No preview available - 2017 |
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Page 214 - To the same astute and unchanging race, whose relentless code of jurisprudence demanded 'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life...
Page 8 - There they were all snapt, he and all his officers, and about two hundred men, as they say ; there being left now in the garrison but four captains. This happened the 3rd of May last, being not before that day twelvemonth of his entering into his government there ; but, at his going out in the morning, he said to some of his officers, ' Gentlemen, let us look to ourselves, for it was this day three years that so many brave Englishmen were knocked on the head by the Moors, when Fines
Page 71 - Mogador is the capital of the fertile provinces of Haha, but, in consequence of its position, it has no immediate rural connections. Its inhabitants live by commerce, and its food supplies are brought from a considerable distance. Unlike Saffi and other towns, grain is seldom exported from Mogador. The fine olive plantations of the country to the south yield abundance of oil, which forms a large article of commerce. Various gums, almonds, beeswax, ostrich feathers, gold, some ivory, goatskins^ wool,...
Page 13 - ... men surrounded by their wares. The same floor serves the customer also for a seat, though his legs dangle in the street. In a few instances the introduction of European customs may be observed in larger premises and glass windows. The principal street runs up the hill from the water-side to the Soko, or market-place, just outside the walls. The upper part of this street is used by the female sellers of bread, milk, vegetables, and fruit, who stand or sit ranged on each side. It is difficult for...
Page 68 - It was built in 1700 by the Sultan Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah ben Ismail, and derives its name from the adjacent sanctuary of Sidi Mogadol, which we see marked on the charts of navigation, but it is better known to the Moors as Suerah. It is the only town in Morocco which has been laid out with a view to regularity of plan. Like most Moorish towns, it is divided into two parts, the citadel and the outer town. The citadel contains the public buildings and the houses of the foreign merchants. The Ghetto,...
Page 55 - ... it is the dirtiest, most tumble-down place ever seen. Some of the Consulates are substantial buildings, but most of the other houses are in bad repair. There are also many waste spaces. Of these not a few are covered with reed huts, in bad repair, in which, when we saw them, many Arabs, wretchedly poor, were encamped.
Page 68 - The town is supplied with water by an aqueduct, which brings it from a river about a mile and a half distant. In the part of the town occupied by Europeans the streets are of good width for a place in which wheeled vehicles are unknown, and are kept fairly clean. Moreover, the drainage here is effected by sewers.
Page 66 - Moors, and from a distance has some claim to the name by which it is commonly known to them — Suerah (the Beautiful). There is an island to the southward of the town, and the entrance to the port lies between the northern end of this island and a dangerous reef of rocks.
Page 80 - ... subsequent typhus, together with the famine, took away over one-half of the people living at Mogador. The island at Mogador is rather more than a mile from the southern extremity of the town. It is nearly half a mile in length, extending along the -shore, with a breadth at the widest part of about 500 yards. Thus situated, the island might be supposed to form a natural breakwater against the impetuous roll of the Atlantic; but in this respect it is of little use. The water intervening between...
Page 68 - ... from the end of November to the commencement of April, but chiefly in February and March. The south wind sometimes blows with great violence, and occasionally there are thunder storms, as we experienced during our short stay. It is remarkable that the sirocco (southeast wind), the terrible scourge which is experienced with fatal effects a little inland, very seldom, even in a modified degree, reaches Mogador. The town is built partly on sandstone rocks and partly on the sandy shore of the Atlantic,...