Identifier: africa00johnrich (find matches)
Title: Africa
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Johnston, Alexander Keith, 1804-1871 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Africa -- Description and travel Africa -- Social life and customs
Publisher: London : Edward Stanford
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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rrounded by immense gardens,Marocco has fallen into a state of complete decay, and isnow but seldom visited by Europeans. Gerhard Eohlfspassed two days here, leaving his funcluk or inn only inthe evening in order to escape detection. Since then theplace was visited in 1872 by Dr. von Fritsch and Dr. J.J. Eein, and in the same year by Dr. Arthur Leared, notwithout considerable risk. Entering the city, says Dr.Leared, our way led through waste places and narrowwinding streets, in parts much crowded. With theexception of some spitting and hissing noises from themob, and their generally sullen looks and muttered curses,there was little to mark my first impressions of Maroccoexcept its likeness to the Oriental cities I had alreadyvisited. Most things, however, wore a more Africantinge. The black race was more numerous here, andthere were many indications that the western Arab isseveral degrees lower in the scale of civilisation than hiseastern co-religionists. ... Xothing can be finer than
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CITY OF MAROCCO. 37 the scenery which surrounds Marocco. Situated in animmense plain, it is flanked on the north, and for somedistance towards the east and west, by a splendid woodof date-palms, to which the citizens constantly resort forthe sake of enjoying the pleasant shade. It is borderedon the east by gardens, and beyond these the country isopen to the foot of the Atlas mountains, portions of whichgrand chain reach a height, of 10,000 feet. The lustreof the snow on their summits has a singularly fine effectagainst the deep blue background of a cloudless sky.Eound the city are walls of an average height of twenty-three feet, flanked by square turrets many of which arein a ruinous state. About two-thirds of the large areawithin these is taken up with gardens or covered withrubbish. The gates are placed in massive archways, andthe streets leading directly from these are of good breadth,but in other parts of the town they are narrow, and,particularly in the wet season, very filthy. T

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