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Identifier: travelsinatlasso00thom (find matches)
Title: Travels in the Atlas and southern Morocco. A narrative of exploration
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Thomson, Joseph, 1858-1895
Subjects: Morocco -- Description and travel Atlas Mountains
Publisher: New York : Longmans, Green, and co.
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angement of our little caravan were going on, weoccasionally tried to forget our cares and worries byexploratory strolls through the town. There was littleto be seen worthy of our attention. To say that Saffiis extremely irregularly built in a compact mass ofwhitewashed prison-like houses intersected by a complexlabyrinth of short narrow lanes ; that to the strangerit is remarkable for the filth and garbage which dis-figure it, and the flies and pariah dogs which infest itsevery corner, is only to recount what are more or lessthe familiar features of most Moorish towns. The one sight which Saffi possesses worth seeing isthe old palace of Mulai bin Abdullah, a Sultan whoreigned in the middle of last centurv, and made him-self memorable by marrying an Irishwoman, by whomhe had a son called Mulai Ishmael, the bloodthirstyNero of Morocco. The palace occupies a commanding site on the hillshoulder, overlooking the town and near the easterngate. Outside it presents the appearance of an enor-
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SAFlI TO THE CITY OF MOROCCO. 115 mous ngly wintlowless prison, forming a quadrangle ofplain unornaraenteJ and unLrokeu walls. Inside, how-ever, it offers more varied and picturesque features.Here are long vaulted and dimly-lighted corridors,opening into all sorts of unexpected nooks and myste-rious rooms; there, grassy courts where fountainshave splashed among beds of roses. Here are still to

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  • bookcentury:1800
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  • booksubject:Morocco____Description_and_travel
  • booksubject:Atlas_Mountains
  • bookpublisher:New_York___Longmans__Green__and_co_
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