Morocco that wasW. Blackwood and sons, 1921 - 333 páginas |
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Página 20 - ... capital. To the Fezzis he was an upstart, and there would be no peace from their intrigues to bring about his fall, and no pity when he fell It was a case of now or never for Bou Ahmed. There were no signs of the coming storm. The Ulad Jamai brothers were no doubt waiting till their arrival amongst their own people in Fez to begin a more active intrigue, and Bou Ahmed himself was courteous and a little obsequious to the influential viziers. A few mornings after the Sultan's arrival at Mekne"s,...
Página 321 - ... make. However, I will have them punished, so that they won't worry you again," and he ordered the Grand Vizier to have them flogged. Of course I intervened, knowing what these floggings often were, but I needn't have troubled. They were flogged, but it was only a pretence — half a dozen blows each that would scarcely have hurt a small child. On reaching the door of the palace a few minutes later, my horse had disappeared again ! It had been taken by the slaves who had administered the bastinado,...
Página 121 - ... collected a little army. Naturally the Treasury was empty, and no tribesmen presented themselves as desiring to take military service, as no pay was forthcoming. The situation was precarious. Without troops Mulai Hafid could do nothing, not even collect the taxes he had promised to forgo ; and without the taxes he couldn't live. At all costs he must have an army. So one morning the public criers announced in the streets and market-places that the Sultan was on a certain day giving a great feast...
Página 135 - Court piper was to feed the kangaroos ; the professional photographer made scones ; a high military authority supplied the Sultan's ladies with underlinen ; and the gardener from Kew was entrusted with the very difficult task of teaching macaw parrots to swear. And so it was not surprising that the dentist became a buyer . of lions. In the first flush of his success at the beginning of his reign, Mulai Hafid was setting himself up as an orthodox Sovereign by Divine Right — and this necessitated...
Página 125 - He knew that his continued presence on the throne in the actual circumstances was out of the question. What he did regret was that he had not made better terms for himself, and he still hoped to be able to extort more money and more properties. Thus the negotiations were being carried on by him in a spirit of grasping meanness, that rendered any solution impossible. At the beginning of his reign, only four years before, he had shown signs of an elevated and patriotic spirit, and really intended to...
Página 181 - Mulai Ahmed er-Raisuli was a typical and ideal bandit. His manner was quiet, his voice soft and low, and his expression particularly sad. He smiled sometimes, but seldom, and even though I knew him much better later on, I never heard him laugh. With his followers he was cold and haughty, and they treated him with all the respect due to his birth.
Página 85 - London ; 10,000 francs' worth of photographic paper arrived in one day from Paris. His Majesty once informed me that his photographic materials, not including cameras and lenses, for one year cost him between £6000 and £7000 ! He naturally did not know what was required, and left it to his commission agents to purchase the " necessary
Página 194 - The naked body was shockingly mutilated, and the finger-tips had been cut off, to be worn, the tribesmen told me, as charms by their women. The hands were pegged to the ground by sticks driven through the palms, about a yard in length, bearing little flags. A wreath of wild flowers was twined round the miserable man's head, and the village dogs had already gnawed away a portion of the flesh of one of the legs. I was jokingly informed that that was probably what I should look like during the course...
Página 123 - Mulai Youssef, the reigning Sultan, had been despatched to the interior, Mulai Hafid changed his mind. On reconsideration, he stated, he thought he wouldn't abdicate or leave the country, as had been decided. He had already obtained the most generous terms from the French Government, but the situation was desperate. Instructions had already been circulated in the interior to proclaim the new Sovereign, and the reigning one refused to abdicate ! Then Mulai Hafid said that possibly he might be persuaded...
Página 181 - Arzeila, when he and his men paid me a visit and spent the night at my camp. I confess that his personality was almost fascinating. Tall, remarkably handsome, with the whitest of skins, a short dark beard and moustache, and black eyes, with profile Greek rather than Semitic, and eyebrows that formed a straight line across his forehead, Mulai Ahmed er-Raisuli was a typical and ideal bandit.