Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond   By: Budgett Meakin (1866-1906)

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

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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.

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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.

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IN ARABIC CHARACTERS

MOROCCO ARABIC DIALOGUES,

OR

DIÁLOGOS EN ARABE MAROQUÍ.

By C.W. BALDWIN.

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[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.

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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!