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Title: Three Vassar girls abroad. Rambles of three college girls on a vacation trip through France and Spain for amusement and instruction. With their haps and mishaps
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams), 1850-1922
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Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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, bearing baskets of tropicalfruits; wild Bedouins from the desert, carrying long rifles, womenshrouded in thebaic, which only permitted one eye to be seen;cringing, shabby Jews, and idiotic or lunatic sa?ztos. These last areregarded as sacred by the Moors, who believe that God has with-drawn their souls to Heaven. A santo crouched beside the door ofthe hotel as they entered, and spat viciously at Mrs. Arnold, whochanced to step upon his tatters. The lieutenant thoughtlesslythreatened the man, bidding him be more civil. Whereupon thesanto rose slowly and cursed him in Arabic. A son of the hotel-keeper, who chanced to be near, looked frightened. You have donea very impolitic thing, my master, he said; this santo is in greatrepute with the populace, and has almost unlimited influence over thePasha of Tangier. What did he say just now? Mrs. Arnold asked. He said that it was one thing for Christian dogs to come to acountry where you were not desired, and another to get away from itsafely.
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A GLIMPSE AT AFRICA. 223 There, Edmund! exclaimed Mrs. Arnold; ^ did I not say thatthis was a dangerous place? The Jackal has not left yet, let us go onboard immediately. Nonsense, replied her husband, the vagabond cannot hurt us,It would be absurd to come to Africa only to leave it in half an hour,and entering the hotel, he tookrooms and ordered dinner.After dinner they took a walkto the Soc, or market-placewithout the walls. Here acaravan had just arrived fromTimbuctoo, by the way of thedesert, and the girls watchedthe unlading of the camels withmuch interest. They returnedby wa) of the bazaars, andthe lieutenant purchased trin-kets for all; silver bangles forBarbara, a scarf, shot withgold thread, for Maud, and asmall prayer-rug, of Tunisianmanufacture, for Saint. AMoorish arch in the gay pat-tern, designated the end v/hichwas always pointed toward Mecca, and the space within was wornnearly threadbare by the knees of the faithful. The) peeped inside the door of a mosque, and visite

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