Among the Moors: Sketches of Oriental LifeS. Low, Marston, 1894 - 281 This book presents personal narratives of the author's adventures and travels in Morocco in late 19th century. |
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Strona 5 - There is no other god but God, and Mahomet is his prophet;" after which they kiss the superior's hand and retire.
Strona 55 - ... of animation to the place, and carry on some slight traffic, which decreases every day. The time is not very far distant when the vultures will hover about the crumbled towers, when the yelping of the jackals will fill the silence of its ruins, when the dwarf palms will strike root where its...
Strona 110 - Here is a file of camels, the first we have met as yet, slouching along with that intolerable jerking of the body, that pitching, insipid movement, so characteristic of them. Their large feet make no sound when touching the ground ; they glide on with big strides, stretching their...
Strona 205 - One would think to see them thus rigid in their straight pose, magnificently attired, they were mysterious idols who had been exposed out of their venerated temples. Slim young girls with big dark eyes, and a simple silk kerchief attached round their heads, move about with an adder-like flexibility, and their long loosened tresses flow over their shoulders.
Strona 205 - Slaves, negresses with hard profiles and sombre faces, with heavy metal rings in their ears, clad in checked garments of red or blue squares on a white ground, their waists encircled by red belts, are standing hard by.
Strona 57 - Women, coming out of kennel-like hovels, draw back at once, terrified at the sight of us, and disappear indoors, shouting and shaking their fists at us.
Strona 102 - Sherif, and descends in a direct line from the Prophet, just as every Englishman who has any respect for himself is a descendant of the Normans, as every Frenchman, who is anybody at all, has an ancestor among the Crusaders.
Strona 55 - ... terraces were standing, and the herdsman will drive his goats to browse where the high walls raised their menacing fronts. And he will crush beneath his bare feet the stalks of wild flowers, unconscious of the fact that a dead town is lying there, under the soil which he is treading, that...
Strona 204 - Most of the women are handsome, with a proud, savage, attractive beauty. Their attitudes are marked with a strange suppleness mixed THE TERRACES OF THE HOUSES IN FEZ.
Strona 200 - FEZ. naked bust, their arms stained with colour, are soaking stuffs in tubs containing purple, yellow, and indigo dyes. We then reach the armourers...