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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ung across his hip mug-f uls of the precious fluid toparched Arabs just arrivedfrom the weird interiorwith their loads of produce,—wheat and barley fromthe plains of Abda and Du-kala, wool and almondsfrom the highlands, andAllah knows what besides.All of which, after a weekor two, grows deadly mo-notonous, and so contmues,until it dawns upon youthat each of these countryfolk, Bedouin ; every fair-skinned son of Fez (or Fas,as you learn to call it) ; allthese children of the GreatAtlas range, knowing noArabic to speak of, andclinging sturdily to their Shilhah tongue,—each of them has a life-story ofhis own, and could, if only he would, tell you in aday more of the real Morocco, with its hopes andits fears, its hatreds and its loves, its unwrittensongs and its folklore, than all the books that haveyet been penned concerning this fair land of sun-set and sunshine. Then comes the craving to seethese men at home, in their own country, and—fate being propitious—you fare eastward and
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MARKET DAY, MOGADOK, MOROCCO. 690 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF REVIEWS. southward, to imperial Fez, to the palm ^ rovesof Ked Marriiksh, and maybe, if Alldli anu yourluck have so decreed, to the enchanted regionsof Atlas, the borderland of the Garden of theHesperides, \nider skies of all but perennialblue, at once the despair and the paradise of thepainter ; a clime nearly as perfect, in early sum-mer, as that of California ; a land destined tobecome, perchance, not only the granary, butthe sanatorium of Europe ; and a land, more-over, through the greater part of w^hich you may,in normal times, roam unmolested, receivingkindly hospitality from every Arab an<i Berberto whom you carry three lines of recommen-dation. THE WEIGHT OF RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY. A very wonder, among these unlettered folk,is the spell of the written word. Try to imagineit, ye ready penmen of the new world and theold,—ten thousand villages and hamlets yonder,beyond the zone of our treaty ports, and perhapsbut

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