A JOURNEY IN MOROCCO 765 
Photo by George E. Holt 
A STREET SCENE: TANGIER 
ing. The next morning we learned that 
a “little” raid had been made by one vil- 
lage upon another, in the course of which 
eight men had been killed and fifteen 
wounded. 
PRIMITIVE AGRICULTURAL METHODS 
In the region through which we were 
now passing we had ample opportunity 
to observe the primitive agricultural 
methods. ‘The implements are what they 
were a thousand years ago. The seed is 
sown before the soil is touched. It is 
then turned shallowly into the ground 
with a plow made entirely of wood with 
the exception of a piece of metal about 
four inches long on the point. Though 
this plow does little more than scratch 
the surface of the earth, yet so rich is the 
soil that the harvests are quite good. 
On one occasion we saw a horse, a 
donkey, and the plowman’s wife or fe- 
male slave (the distinction in the country 
is often quite fine) hitched before the 
plow. To all appearances the team 
pulled well together. 
As one observes these agricultural 
scenes from a little distance, the sower 
slowly scattering the seed, and the plow- 
man clad in short shirt, which leaves his 
bronzed legs and arms completely bare, 
following the primitive plow behind his 
oxen, one is strongly reminded of the 
scenes depicted on Egyptian ruins. The 
women at the wells by the wayside, with 
huge water jars upon their heads, or 
working the soil with infants astride 
their backs, securely bound on by a cloth 
which completely covers them when the 
sun is warm, or men entirely naked with 
the exception of a cloth about the loins, 
washing clothes upon slabs of stone by 
treading upon the articles with their 
feet—these and many other scenes too 
numerous to mention carry the mind back 
nearly two thousand years to a succes- 
sion of biblical pictures. 
On the fifth and sixth days of our jour- 
ney we were passing over low mountains, 
traversing almost treeless plains and pla- 
teaux, and fording rivers, some of them 
so deep that we had to hold our feet up 
