Identifier: tafiletnarrative00harr (find matches)
Title: Tafilet; the narrative of a journey of exploration in the Atlas mountains and the oases of the north-west Sahara
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Harris, Walter, 1866-1933
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Publisher: London, W. Blackwood and sons
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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ROCCO CITY : A WEEKLY MARKET A STREET IN MARAKESH INNER COURT OF SULTANs PALACE IN MARAKESH THE KUTUBIA IN MARAKESH A JEWISH BANKER OF MARAKESH A STREET SCENE IN MARAKESH BERBERS ...... FORDING THE WAD GHADAT A VIEW FROM ABOVE ZARKTEN . PAGE8 1216 263235 384548646973 Xll ILLUSTRATIONS. THE sheikhs house AT ZARKTEN THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS FROM THE SOUTH APPROACHING MARAKESH FROM THE NORTH A PASS ON THE ROAD AGURZGA ..... A VILLAGE SCENE A BERBER FAMILY AT DADS : WOMAN MEALING CORN INSIDE THE VILLAGE OF AIT BU HADDU, AT DADS A WOMAN OF DADS YOUNG JEW OF DADS saints TOMB ON THE ROAD TO UL TURUG UL TURUG .... WAD GHERIS .... IN TAFILET .... A CORNER OF A SOK—EARLY MORNING YOUNG WOMEN OF TAFILET DRYING DATES THE RAID OF GLAWAs RESIDENCE SHOPS AT BAB KHEMIS, MARAKESH 76 8591108124139144158165174200204222277282294320327 M A P S.SKETCH MAP OF MOROCCO SHOWING authors ROUTE . To face page 1 DETAIL MAP OF AUTHORS ROUTES BETWEEN MARAKESH AND TAFILET . . . . . .At end ^Gibraltar MEDITERRANEANSEATUAN
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SKETCH MAP OF MOROCCO, Showing Mr W. B. Harris's Routes to and from Tafilet. Author's route. T A F I L E T. CHAPTER I. PEEPAEATIOXS AND START. It had long been my intention to make a journeyo f exploration into, and if possible beyond, the Atlas Mountains ; and though on several occasions my plans had been already formulated, I had been obliged, almost at the last moment, to abandon the idea. However, the close of the year 1893 offered an opportunity which could not be neglected ; but before entering upon the description of my journey, a few words must be said as to what not a little helped it toward success. Mulai el Hassen, the Sultan of Morocco, had been meditating for some years an expedition into the southern regions of his dominions, toward that in- 2 PREPARATIONS AND START. definite frontier which divided his country from the wastes of the Sahara desert. Until, however, the spring of the year 1893 he had been so occupied with summer expeditions, organised to crush petty rebel-lions and inter

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