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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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t-ern Tunisia, there is surely not another town inNorth Africa as white as Moulay Idriss. Some arepale blue and pinky yellow, like the Kasbah ofTangier, or cream and blue like Sale; but Tangierand Sale, for centuries continuously subject toEuropean influences, have probably borrowed theircolors from Genoa and the Italian Riviera. In theinterior of the country, and especially in Morocco,where the whole color-scheme is much soberer thanin Algeria and Tunisia, the color of the native housesis always a penitential shade of mud and ashes. But Moulay Idriss, that afternoon, was as whiteas if its arcaded square had been scooped out of abig cream cheese. The late sunlight lay like gold-leaf on one side of the square, the other was in pureblue shade; and above it, the crowded roofs, ter-races and balconies packed with women in brightdresses looked like a flower-field on the edge of amarble quarry. The bright dresses were as unusual a sight asthe white walls, for the average Moroccan crowd (50)
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t rum a pnolograpli Jrom the Hervice des iieaux-Art.i an Maror Moulay-Idriss—the market-place VOLUBILIS, MOULAY IDRI5S AND MEKNEZ is the color of its houses. But the occasion was aspecial one, for these feasts of the Hamadchas oc-cur only twice a year, in spring and autumn, andas the ritual dances take place out of doors, in-stead of being performed inside the building of theconfraternity, the feminine population seizes theopportunity to burst into flower on the housetops.It is rare, in Morocco, to see in the streets or thebazaars any women except of the humblest classes,household slaves, servants, peasants from the coun-trv or small tradesmens wives; and even thev(with the exception of the unveiled Berber women)are wrapped in the prevailing grave-clothes. ThefiU^s dt^ joit and dancing-girls whose brilliant dressesenliven certain streets of the Algerian and Tunisiantowns are invisible, or at least unnoticeable, inMorocco, where life, on the whole, seems so muciiless gay and brightly

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