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Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond By: Budgett Meakin (1866-1906) |
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BY THE SAME AUTHOR In uniform style. Demy 8vo, 15s. each. THE MOORS: an Account of People and Customs. With 132 Illustrations. CONTENTS: "The Madding Crowd" Within the Gates Where the Moors
Live How the Moors Dress Moorish Courtesy and Etiquette What
the Moors Eat and Drink Everyday Life Slavery and
Servitude Country Life Trade Arts and Manufactures Matters
Medical. Some Moorish Characteristics The Mohammedan Year (Feasts
and Fasts) Places of Worship Alms, Hospitality, and
Pilgrimage Education Saints and Superstitions Marriage Funeral
Rites. The Morocco Berbers The Jews of Morocco The Jewish Year. THE LAND OF THE MOORS: A Comprehensive Description. With a New Map and
83 Illustrations. CONTENTS: Physical Features Natural Resources Vegetable
Products Animal Life. Descriptions and Histories of Tangier, Tetuan, Laraiche,
Salli Rabat, Dar el Baida, Mazagan, Saffi and Mogador; Azîla,
Fedála, Mehedia, Mansûrîya, Azammûr and Waladîya; Fez, Mequinez
and Marrákesh; Zarhôn, Wazzán and Shesháwan; El Kasar, Sifrû,
Tadla, Damnát, Táza, Dibdû and Oojda; Ceuta, Velez, Alhucemas,
Melilla and the Zaffarines; Sûs, the Draa, Tafilált, Fîgîg, and
Tûát. Reminiscences of Travel In the Guise of a Moor To Marrákesh on a
Bicycle In Search of Miltsin. THE MOORISH EMPIRE: A Historical Epitome. With Maps, 118
Illustrations, and a unique Chronological, Geographical, and
Genealogical Chart. CONTENTS: Mauretania The Mohammedan Invasion Foundation of
Empire Consolidation of Empire Extension of Empire Contraction
of Empire Stagnation of Empire Personification of Empire The
Reigning Shareefs The Moorish Government Present Administration. Europeans in the Moorish Service The Salli Rovers Record of
the Christian Slaves Christian Influences in Morocco Foreign
Relations Moorish Diplomatic Usages Foreign Rights and
Privileges Commercial Intercourse The Fate of the Empire. Works on Morocco reviewed (213 vols. in 11 languages) The
Place of Morocco in Fiction Journalism in Morocco Works
Recommended Classical Authorities on Morocco. LONDON: SWAN SONNENSCHEIN, LTD. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ARABIC OF MOROCCO: VOCABULARY, GRAMMAR NOTES,
ETC., IN ROMAN CHARACTERS. Specially prepared for Visitors and
Beginners on a new and eminently practical system. Crown 8vo, Cloth, Round Corners for Pocket, 6s. Also, Uniform with this, in English or Spanish, Price 4s. IN ARABIC CHARACTERS MOROCCO ARABIC DIALOGUES, OR DIÁLOGOS EN ARABE MAROQUÍ. By C.W. BALDWIN. LONDON: BERNARD QUARITCH, PICCADILLY. TANGIER: BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY'S DEPÔT.
[Illustration: Photograph by Edward Lee, Esq., Saffi. A MOORISH THOROUGHFARE.]
=LIFE IN MOROCCO= AND GLIMPSES BEYOND
BY BUDGETT MEAKIN AUTHOR OF "THE MOORS," "THE LAND OF THE MOORS," "THE MOORISH EMPIRE,"
"MODEL FACTORIES AND VILLAGES," ETC.
[Illustration] WITH TWENTY FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS LONDON
CHATTO & WINDUS
1905
PRINTED BY
WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,
LONDON AND BECCLES.
=FOREWORD=
Which of us has yet forgotten that first day when we set foot in
Barbary? Those first impressions, as the gorgeous East with all its
countless sounds and colours, forms and odours, burst upon us; mingled
pleasures and disgusts, all new, undreamed of, or our wildest dreams
enhanced! Those yelling, struggling crowds of boatmen, porters,
donkey boys; guides, thieves, and busy bodies; clad in mingled finery
and tatters; European, native, nondescript; a weird, incongruous
medley such as is always produced when East meets West how they did
astonish and amuse us! How we laughed (some trembling inwardly) and
then, what letters we wrote home! One and twenty years have passed since that experience entranced the
present writer, and although he has repeated it as far as possible in
practically every other oriental country, each fresh visit to Morocco
brings back somewhat of the glamour of that maiden plunge, and
somewhat of that youthful ardour, as the old associations are renewed... Continue reading book >>
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