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Identifier: outing29newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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oral, Kabyle matchlockrifles, ornamented sabers, and fragmentsof some rare old carpet to be used asprayer rugs. The proprietors sit cross-legged upon mats within their littleden-like stores. Sometimes a youngMoor will divert himself with a quainttortoise-shell guitar of two strings,upon which he thrums some of thosewild never-changing melodies of theArabs. Israelites crowd along, hagglingover their wares of calico and mus-lin, while donkeys laden with roses,and donkeys bearing ash - barrels andgarbage, wander at their own sweet 132 OUTING FOR NOVEMBER. will amid the stream of passers-by.One entire street in the great bazaaris devoted to bric-a-brac stalls, wherethe odor of sweetmeats and henna isstrong. Here may be found glitteringmother-of pearl tables, Stamboul weap- knives, bronze perfume-holders, sandal-wood boxes from Mecca, with frag-ments of the Koran inscribed uponthem—it is a wilderness of novelties,and a study in color-contrasts to mad-den a figure-painter ; yachmahs, bur-
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*ss«C A PATHWAY OF MYSTERY IN THE MOORISH QUARTER ons, fabrics from Damascus, brass trays,damascened daggers, bangles, pipes,famous scimitars, which remind one ofthe tales of the African magicians ofthe Arabian Nights ; executioners nouses and cloaks, in violet, rose-colorand pure white ; foulards twisted intosashes and turbans, the work of someMoorish designer, who labored andchose his tints according to the shades OVER DECOYS ON THE MISSISSIPPI. l33 in a box of butterflieswings before him.And over the animation of the wholescene resound the almost impossibleconsonants, the gutturals of the Arabtongue, as they are whispered, insinu-ated, cried, and hurled from buyer toseller, from friend to acquaintance, frommaster to servant. The Israelites themselves, althoughmany of the younger women are ex-tremely handsome until the age ofseventeen, are red-lidded and crafty-looking. Their quarter of the town, how-ever, is worth seeing on Saturday, theJewish day of worship, all that is bestin th

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  • bookid:outing29newy
  • bookyear:1885
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • booksubject:Leisure
  • booksubject:Sports
  • booksubject:Travel
  • bookpublisher:_New_York___Outing_Pub__Co__
  • bookcontributor:Tisch_Library
  • booksponsor:Boston_Library_Consortium_Member_Libraries
  • bookleafnumber:141
  • bookcollection:tischlibrary
  • bookcollection:blc
  • bookcollection:americana
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