In Morocco

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Edith Wharton. In Morocco

PREFACE

NOTE

I. RABAT AND SALÉ

I. LEAVING TANGIER

II. THE TRAIL TO EL-KSAR

III. EL-KSAR TO RABAT

IV. THE KASBAH OF THE OUDAYAS

V. ROBINSON CRUSOE'S "SALLEE"

VI. CHELLA AND THE GREAT MOSQUE

II. VOLUBILIS, MOULAY IDRISS AND MEKNEZ

I. VOLUBILIS

II. MOULAY IDRISS

III. MEKNEZ

III. FEZ

I. THE FIRST VISION

II. FEZ ELDJID

III. FEZ ELBALI

IV. EL ANDALOUS AND THE POTTERS' FIELD

V. MEDERSAS, BAZAARS AND AN OASIS

VI. THE LAST GLIMPSE

IV. MARRAKECH

I. THE WAY THERE

II. THE BAHIA

III. THE BAZAARS

IV. THE AGDAL

V. ON THE ROOFS

VI. THE SAADIAN TOMBS

V. HAREMS AND CEREMONIES

I. THE CROWD IN THE STREET

II. AÏD-EL-KEBIR

III. THE IMPERIAL MIRADOR

IV. IN OLD RABAT

V. IN FEZ

VI. IN MARRAKECH

VI. GENERAL LYAUTEY'S WORK IN MOROCCO

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THE WORK OF THE FRENCH PROTECTORATE, 1912-1918. PORTS

COMMERCE. COMPARATIVE TABLES

ROADS BUILT

RAILWAYS BUILT

LAND CULTIVATED

JUSTICE

EDUCATION

MEDICAL AID

VII. A SKETCH OF MOROCCAN HISTORY

I. THE BERBERS

II. PHENICIANS, ROMANS AND VANDALS

III. THE ARAB CONQUEST

IV. ALMORAVIDS AND ALMOHADS

V. THE MERINIDS

VI. THE SAADIANS

VII. THE HASSANIANS

VIII. NOTE ON MOROCCAN ARCHITECTURE

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IX. BOOKS CONSULTED

Отрывок из книги

In the writing of proper names and of other Arab words the French spelling has been followed.

In the case of proper names, and names of cities and districts, this seems justified by the fact that they occur in a French colony, where French usage naturally prevails; and to spell Oudjda in the French way, and koubba, for instance, in the English form of kubba, would cause needless confusion as to their respective pronunciation. It seems therefore simpler, in a book written for the ordinary traveller, to conform altogether to French usage.

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On the west coast, especially, where the Mediterranean peoples, from the Phenicians to the Portuguese, have had trading-posts for over two thousand years, the harm done to such seaboard towns as Tangier, Rabat and Casablanca is hard to estimate. The modern European colonist apparently imagined that to plant his warehouses, cafés and cinema-palaces within the walls which for so long had fiercely excluded him was the most impressive way of proclaiming his domination.

Under General Lyautey such views are no longer tolerated. Respect for native habits, native beliefs and native architecture is the first principle inculcated in the civil servants attached to his administration. Not only does he require that the native towns shall be kept intact, and no European building erected within them; a sense of beauty not often vouchsafed to Colonial governors causes him to place the administration buildings so far beyond the walls that the modern colony grouped around them remains entirely distinct from the old town, instead of growing out of it like an ugly excrescence.

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