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Title: Bright days in sunny lands
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Honeyman, A. Van Doren (Abraham Van Doren), 1849-1936
Subjects: Voyages and travels
Publisher: Plainfield, N.J., Honeyman and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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x cattle on each were being rowed, or towed, overthe shallow water to a freight steamer, on which theywere to be loaded. When they arrived beside thesteamer, a derrick and crane were set at work, and thecattle were raised high up and swung into the shipby their horns. Their whole weight when suspendedin mid-air was sustained by the horns. They did notstruggle, for they could not. I was told—it may havebeen a fable, but I could believe it possible—that nowand then the animals were dehorned by the practiceand fell into the sea before they could be embarked!The ugly, dark-skinned old Moors who superintendedthe operation may have had some spark of feelingin them for the comfort of these animals, but the ex-hibition did not prove it. We landed by boats, as in most African harbors,and these were rowed by semi-naked men to a largerpier, up which we scrambled by a staircase, and thenwalked a quarter of a mile to the shore, where a cus-tom-house is established, the collectors of which, who
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Fagot-carrier in Tangier. BY THE PILLARS OF HERCULES 17 sat before it crosslegged, looked like members of aJewish Sanhedrin. The beggars begin to meet thetraveler at this spot and it takes grit and gestures toshake them off; they cease not their importunities un-til you are safely in the hotel. Tangier is on a hill, but is built down to the watersedge. It has no wide streets, no carts, no wagons,but an abundance of filth and smells similar to Jeru-salem. First impressions are wholly against ones re-maining there over an hour or two. But when youhave once wound around and up the first and steepalley from the seashore, suddenly you find yourselfat what seems to be the back door, but for all practicalpurposes is the entrance door, to as fine a hotel asthere is in this quarter of the world. The Hotel Con-tinental was a wonder to me from the hour I enteredit to the hour I left it. How such a large, comfortable,clean, up-to-date, deHghtful European hostelry couldbe located amid the squalor,

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