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Title: By the waters of Carthage
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Lorimer, Norma Octavia, 1864-
Subjects: Tunisia -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Hutchinson
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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he deuce did she know that we were goingto the Bardo to-morrow . Jack said. Did you tellher. When did you see her. No, I said, I never told her ; Bachir knows, andthe souks have ears. Jack. Do you suppose that anybodycan do anything, or even think anything, without theseclairvoyants knowing it ? I always feel that the East isonly listening to, and taking an interest in the things wedont say, and dont want known—the thoughts that wordswere given us to conceal. I can see them carrying ontheir unspoken language of signs and looks with eachother over my head when I am in the bazaars ; they arenot really paying attention to what I am saying, althoughthey seem very polite. Where are you off to now . Jack said, by way ofan answer. Jack does not care for abstract conversations.We had examined every hole-in-the-wall-shop in thePlace Bab-Souika and investigated every inch of the RueSidi-Mahrez, which is really a sort of miniature bazaar initself, the far end filled up by the huge white mosque
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Chapter VIII 139 of Sidi-Mahrez with its mass of baby domes circlinground the big mother one. But it is not necessary totell you that. When Tunis has five hundred mosques(not to mention saints tombs), there is a dome andminaret to spare for almost every street. The Rue Sidi-Mahrez has at its entrance a number ofArab butchers shops, full of the most disgusting-lookingportions of slaughtered animals you ever saw. Ill swearthat honest Christian sheep and mild-eyed calves do nothave the same evil-looking insides as these Mohammedananimals. Nearer the mosque, at the far end of thestreet, the shops are more fascinating to foreigners, forthey are full of every-day Arab household goods, whichwere all very far from every-day things to us. Inthe centre of the street there are flower-shops wellstocked with very expensive flowers. I had no particular point in view, as I had onlycome out to the Place Bab-Souika to buy pottery, soI said, Let us take the tram back again to the Kasba,and see if we ca

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