Mogreb-el-Acksa: A Journey in Morocco

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R. B. Cunninghame Graham. Mogreb-el-Acksa: A Journey in Morocco

Mogreb-el-Acksa: A Journey in Morocco

Table of Contents

PREFACE

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

CHAPTER XII

APPENDIX A “SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE SHILLAH LANGUAGE.”

APPENDIX B

APPENDIX C

NOTES

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R. B. Cunninghame Graham

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Often at night, awake and looking at the stars and trying to remember which was which, I have broken into laughter when I thought upon the name, and laughed until the Arabs all sat up alarmed, for he who laughs at night laughs at his hidden wickedness, or else because a devil has possessed his soul.

Cargo, of course, was not expected in the Rabat, and as by four o’clock in the afternoon the last few passengers had come aboard, it might have been expected that the ship would put to sea. Not so, the captain gave it as his opinion that it was best to wait till midnight so as to arrive in Mazagan by breakfast time; so for eight hours we waited in sight of Casa Blanca, swinging up and down, giddy and miserable, and in the intervals of misery tried to fish.

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