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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 
A VILLAGE HOME IN THE INTERIOR OF MOROCCO 
Note the stork’s nest. The women believe the stork is a bearer of love messages. 
Photo by 
Thomas L. Blayney, Ph. D. 
officially a capital, reside the accredited 
representatives of the great powers and. 
the Moroccan minister of foreign affairs. 
Being a city of “infidels,” it has been 
visited only on rarest occasions by any of 
the sultans. This arrangement, while 
being very convenient for the ministers 
of European nations, is still more suited 
to the ways of “oriental diplomacy,” for 
long and advantageous delays can be se- 
cured ‘by the Moroccan government 
“while the wishes of His Sharufian Maj- 
esty are consulted” in some one of the 
distant capital cities. Lack of space will 
prevent me from discussing more than 
incidentally the government and history 
of the country, for which I would refer 
the reader to the excellent article by Mr. 
Ion Perdicaris in THe NatroNnat GEo- 
GRAPHIC Macazine, March, 1906. 
Our party was fortunate in securing 
apartments overlooking the beach to the 
south of the city, the hard sand of which 
makes it an important thoroughfare. Be- 
fore our windows an entrancing pano- 
rama of city, sea, and mountain unfolded 
itself. To the left the white city, with its 
minarets; to the right, long stretches of 
green coastline, terminated by the old 
fortress at Cape Malabat; in the fore- 
ground, quaint Moorish craft, resembling 
the dahabiyehs of the Nile, whose strange 
white sails sent them darting across the 
bay ; in the background, across the Strait 
of Gibraltar, rose the mountains of Anda- 
lusia, cutting off from view the storied 
land beyond. 
NATIVE TYPES IN THE CITY 
In the near foreground the white surf 
on the beach caused the strange proces- 
sion of figures, that came and went on 
the sands, to stand out the more boldly. 
At one moment it was an Arab from a 
village, fat and content, enveloped in a 
“Dournous,” a white—or what was once 
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