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Title: The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Meakin, Budgett
Subjects: Morocco -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : S. Sonnenschein & co., lim. New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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s of ■•■ In August, October and March. The first is the most important,but the second is remarlcable for the figlits with slings and stones betweenthe Ait All and Ait Mussi, two divisions of the kabila of Imjad. Jewsare not admitted to these markets, but pitch their tents on the outskirts.Even meii and women have separate sections on these occasions. f Times of Morocco^ No. 22. \ Tisnit is built almost entirely of red mud concrete, and is destituteof gardens, though the space enclosed is far from being built over. Greydescribes camping ground for 20,000 men inside the gates, whereas heestimates the normal population at but 2000 or 3000; there is anotherlarge square before the kaids house. Tiie kasbah was not yet completedin 1898. One or two lovely pahn-trees raised their tufted heads abovethe dull monochrome of dirty red, but they only served to accentuatethe monotony by contrast. Lenz, Rev. Gcog., Paris, p. 375. See also Benite.z, p. 61. * Lenz. vol. i., p. 332. ^ Grev, p. 250.
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386 SUS dwellings around the fortresses of chieftains, that in them the people may develop settled habits, and interests which tend to peace, as well as for use as garrison towns. Further south, not far from the Wad Nun, is the more important town of Agelmin, or Glimin, the headquarters of the Sheikh Bairuk and his tribe, the prin- ge mm or ^ipal people of the district. * Gatell informsGlimin. r r r us that it consisted of the kasbah, the agadir,and the kasar el madinah, having five gates in its brokenwall, which enclosed a population of some three thousand.Each of the three sections had its mosque, but neitherof these had minarets, and there were no shrines. TheJews were packed in one street with gates, in whichthey had two synagogues, and there was a Sundaymarket. f Regarding the rest of the province of Sus, we must remain content with the most meagre data, especially as to the interior, t The experiences of venture- A Little Atnnon , , i -u • i j i „ . some traders and ship-wre

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