MOROCCO, SPAIN, AND THE CANARY ISLANDS.
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CHAPTER III.
The Streets of Tangier―Show and Glitter Within Contrasted with the Plainness and Squalor Without―The Generation of Pestilence―How the Young Idea is Taught to Shoot―Early Manifestations of Intolerance―Entomological Investigations―A Moorish Market Place―A Picturesque Scene―The Evening Gun―Strange Bedfellows―The Closing of the Gates―How the Jew Puts Money in his Purse―Fatima Selling Butter, and Leila Eggs―Some People Sharp Enough with One Eye―The Cemetery of Tangier―Small Talk and Serious Talk with the Departed―The Funeral of a Moor.
On leaving the Moorish houses and passing into the streets, one cannot but be struck by the contrast presented between the show, the glitter, and the elegance within, and the plainness, dirtiness, and even squalor, of all that one sees without. The streets in Tangier scarcely deserve the name, for they are merely narrow lanes, with nothing in the way of architectural display on which they eye can
