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Title: The Burton Holmes lectures;
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Holmes, Burton, b. 1870
Subjects: Voyages and travels
Publisher: Battle Creek, Mich. : The Little-Preston co., limited
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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io6 INTO MOROCCO
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SPACE, IN MOROCCO, IS STILL A STF.RN REALITY ceed another with scarce an interruption until the minaretsof Fez shall cut their square majestic outlines against thesouthern sky. Who can describe the floral beauty of these boundlessprairies? — who except Pierre Loti ? It w^as his dainty vol-ume, Au Maroc, that inspired me with a desire to followhim into Morocco. When I was reading his beautiful de-scriptions of the floral mosaic that covers both the plains andhillsides of the land, I could not easily accept as true theseemingly exaggerated assertions of the author ; his glowingword-pictures of an empire carpeted with flowers. Yet hespoke truly, and as I rode across these broad stretches ofpure white, where marguerites in all their modest lovelinesslie thick upon the greensward, I knew that I had seen it allbefore — seen it upon his printed page, as real, as beautifullyvivid as it is to me to-day. To visit Morocco after reading INTO MOROCCO 107 Pierre Loti is like returninj^ to a lan

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