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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.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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is to lend$100 at an interest of $50 for three months. Ofcourse, at the end of that time it is rarely paid, andthe Jew gladly adds the -$50 to the $100, and lets theaccumulated amount go on at the same rate of interest.
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THE JEWS. 42 r It must be admitted, however, that whatever may-be our disgust at discoveries such as these, the Jewsare not altogether an unmitigated evil to the countryof their adoption, or rather, to put it more correctly,they are of no small value to the merchants of othercountries. Their keen mercantile spirit makes them acapital medium of commercial intercourse, and doesmuch to keep the country open in some measure tothe trade of Europe. Before saying more about the general position ofthe Jew, it may not be out of place to pay a visit tohim in his own quarters. Thither, however, I wouldnot advise any of my readers who are easily upset bysights and smells to follow me. In going to the Mellah, we have to pass through aconsiderable part of the Medinah, in which we our-selves are located. We shall not, however, waste timeover the scenes which meet us 01 route, beyond re-marking, for the purposes of comparison, the snow-white dresses and well-washed persons of the Moors,and the calm d

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