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Identifier: inmorocco00wharuoft (find matches)
Title: In Morocco
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937
Subjects: Morocco -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York Scribner
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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edar roof through which a patch of sky shows hereand there like an inset of turquoise tiling. This lovely ruin is in the safe hands of the FrenchFine Arts administration, and soon the wood-carvers and stucco-workers of Fez will have re-vived its old perfection; but it will never again bemore than a show-Medersa, standing empty andunused beside the mosque behind whose guardeddoors and high walls one guesses that the old re-ligious fanaticism of Sale is dying also, as herlearning and her commerce have died. In truth the only life in her is centred in themarket-place outside the walls, where big expandingRabat goes on certain days to provision herself.The market of Sale, though typical of all Moroccanmarkets, has an animation and picturesqueness ofits own. Its rows of white tents pitched on adusty square between the outer walls and the fruit-gardens make it look as though a hostile tribehad sat down to lay siege to the town; but thearmy is an army of hucksters, of farmers from the ( 26 )
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RABAT AND SALE rich black lands along the river, of swarthy nomadsand leather-gaitered peasant women from thehills, of slaves and servants and tradesmen fromRabat and Sale; a draped, veiled, turbaned mobshrieking, bargaining, fist-shaking, call on Allah towitness the monstrous villanies of the misbegottenmiscreants they are trading with, and then, struckwith the mysterious Eastern apathy, sinking downin languid heaps of muslin among the black figs,purple onions and rosy melons, the fluttering hens,the tethered goats, the whinnying foals, that areall enclosed in an outer circle of folded-up camelsand of mules dozing under faded crimson saddles. VI CHELLA AND THE GREAT MOSQUE The Merinid Sultans of Rabat had a terriblytroublesome neighbour across the Bou-Regreg, andthey built Chella to keep an eye on the pirates ofSale. But Chella has fallen like a Babylonian citytriumphed over by the prophets; while-Sale, sly,fierce and irrepressible, continued till well on in thenineteenth century to

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