Travels in the Atlas and southern Morocco. A narrative of exploration (1889) (14799272193)

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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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o the village with vengeful intents. On reaching our quarters without further adventure,C.-B.—who, meanwhile, had been peacefully workingup his diaries—C.-B. and I proceeded to array our-selves in Moorish dresses, as being cooler, and morein keeping with the function in prospect, as well as—if I may be permitted to say so—allowing of more com-fortable expansion as the banquet proceeded. For therest of the afternoon there was nothing for us to dobut loll about on our mattresses and cushions—aMoorish fashion which did not suit our temperament.It was satisfactory, however, to feel that our appetiteswere getting ravenous. At length, as the Mueddin ended his call to after-noon prayers, the sound of slippered feet came wel-comely to our ears. As we half-raised ourselves ineager expectancy, a dozen slaves in snow-white dressesdefiled before us in an appetising train that made ourmouths water with anticipatory joys. Each stalwartnegro perspired under a circular legless table, behind

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DINNKU UEADY. raije 268. INCIDRNTS OF LIFE AT TELUFT. 269 whose liiigo conical cover he was almost hidden.Their steaming burdens were deposited in a row, likeso many bocliives, stretching from our door half-waydown the garden. The slaves looked at us with beam-ing faces, mutely congratulating us on the comingfeast, as they stood over their respective tables flickingaway the clouds of flies with long cloths. Our men

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