Morocco the Bizarre, Or, Life in Sunset LandMcBride, Nast and Company, 1914 - 242 pages |
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Aîsáwà Algeria Allah Ameer American Anghera Arabic Arache Arzila Atwil basha Berbers Bigote boat brass carpet Casablanca Cassim century Christian coast colour Consul consular dance dancers decorated djellab Djibel djinnoon dollars embroidery Europe eyes father foreign French garment Gibraltar Hamádsha hand head hills hundred jehad kaid kesk'soo Khader land leather LENOX AND TILDEN M'hammed ben Aisa magician market-place Marraksh matter Meknez Mogador Moghreb Mohammedan Moorish Moors Moroccan Morocco Morocco leather Moslem mosque Mulai Abd-ul-Aziz Mulai el Hafid Mulai el Hassan mule native never North Africa one's passing perhaps pottery Prophet PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR Rabat Raisuli Riffians Shareef Shareefian Sidi Mohamed silver slaves Slawi smile socco soldier Spain Spanish Sultan Sultan of Morocco Sûs Tangier Tetuan things throne TILDEN FOUNDATIONS town tribes ulema Vizier wife woman women YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY Zarhon
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Page 85 - I have eaten your bread and salt, I have drunk your water and wine; The deaths ye died I have watched beside, And the lives that ye led were mine. Was there aught that I did not share In vigil or toil or ease,— One joy or woe that I did not know, Dear hearts across the seas?
Page 22 - It's like a book, I think, this bloomin' world, Which you can read and care for just so long, But presently you feel that you will die Unless you get the page you're readin' done, An' turn another — likely not so good ; But what you're after is to turn 'em all.
Page 73 - For to admire an' for to see, For to be'old this world so wide — It never done no good to me, But I can't drop it if I tried!
Page 168 - Till a voice, as bad as Conscience, rang interminable changes On one everlasting Whisper day and night repeated — so: "Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges — "Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!
Page 125 - ... the old conditions of servitude still exist to a large extent in the interior. But the Jew has shown his ability to rise.
Page 178 - ... name' of Allah, then somehow the sun seems to become unbearably hot, the air stifling, the shriek of the pipes and the beat of the drums simply infernal. And with it all comes just a faint impression of what fear might be, and the desire to get away from it all, for surely this mob of dancing, singing demons is not real.
Page 187 - The Hamadsha who dance each year in the sok at Tangier are not numerous. There are perhaps a dozen adult dancers, which number is increased during the different dances by the addition of certain spectators who are overcome by religious fervour, among which, unfortunately, are usually a number of boys varying in age from ten to fifteen.
Page 168 - Morocco, and to include an important though little-known district which goes by its name. Rohlfs and De Foucauld alone have skirted it ; Lenz has crossed it ; beyond this our information is entirely from native sources.
Page 179 - Morocco, see either of these dances. The tourist who is lucky enough to be in Tangier while one of them is in progress, goes away with an impression of things much different from that of the person who has not seen them — and with cause.
Page 178 - ... cessation ; when he hears the interminable beat of the low-voiced drums and the never-ceasing monotony of the shrill pipes ; when he sees the banners of the Prophet, malignant green and red and gold, then this Christian foreigner feels that here is something which he cannot understand : that here are people voicing the ideals of the Mohammedan world, which somehow seems to become suddenly larger, and that he himself has had a mistaken conception of what Mohammedanism means. And when his eyes...