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Title: The Burton Holmes lectures;
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Holmes, Burton, b. 1870
Subjects: Voyages and travels
Publisher: Battle Creek, Mich. : The Little-Preston co., limited
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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iDl THE MOORISH EMPIRE 231 of the Moors. There yet remains to tell a third, conclud-ing chapter of the tale — the narrative of the return fromFez to the sea, from a remote yesterday back to the world ofto-day. Out of Morocco would serve as an appropriateheading for this chapter,— a chapter rich in adventure andin picturesque experiences. For ten days we have dwelt in
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KKIDC.ES CO.MPKTH INSrCCESSKri I.N \\ I I H FORDS mediaval Moslem Fez — unwelcome visitors, objects of sus-picion to the jealous Moors. Two routes are open to us — the direct road to Tangierand the less-frequented road to Rabat on the Atlantic Coast.Despite the protest of the authorities, who warn us of man\dangers, we chose the road that leads westward to Mequinez,the Beni-Hasan Plain, and the Atlantic. But the wordroad must be regarded onh in its Moroccan sense. As 232 THE MOORISH EMPIRE has been said already, there are no roads in this wild land ;the slow caravans and the swift troops of Moorish horsemenhave followed the hoofmarks left by the caravans or troops

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