Identifier: travelsinatlasso00thom (find matches)
Title: Travels in the Atlas and southern Morocco. A narrative of exploration
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Thomson, Joseph, 1858-1895
Subjects: Morocco -- Description and travel Atlas Mountains
Publisher: New York : Longmans, Green, and co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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I! RIKA. 447 the Kiilita sent down ;il owvo ami collected togftheithe Sheiks ol villages. To these he gave the neces-sary orders, and tliey again sent instructions to thoseunder them. As the afternoon wore on, one messengerafter another arrived laden with provisions. From onevillaue came a i-onlriljutiini of a doidvcv-load of charcoal,from another eleven fowls, and from a third a sheep.From various other quarters came two or three dozeneggs, a dozen pounds of butter, onions, and a mule-load of barley. The Kalifa, on the part of the Kaid,added a loaf of sugar, a packet of candles, and a quar-ter of a pound of green tea, besides half a dozen loavesof bread, (ruit, and several dishes of cooked food. leather to our surprise, almost everything collectedwas handed over to us—a most unusual occurrence, ourappearance being usually a splendid opportunity forthe most outrageous exactions in the way of food,nominally, of course, for us, but in reality ibr the Kaidand his Kalifa, while the Shei

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