So, if ye must make
pictures, make them of trees and things without souls."
[35] The reader will recognise the Hadj's reference to bicycles, cameras,
motor-cars, and other mechanical toys.
[36] Melinite shells.
[37] The stork.
[38] Literally, "Father of the she-ass," the Pretender who conducted a
successful campaign against the Sultan in 1902 and 1903, and is still an
active enemy of the Filali dynasty.
[39] "The Praise to Allah."
[40] A Moorish lute.
[41] Literally, "In the name of God."
[42] The late Sir William Kirby Green.
THROUGH A SOUTHERN PROVINCE
[Illustration: AN ARAB STEED]
CHAPTER IX
THROUGH A SOUTHERN PROVINCE
The full streams feed on flower of rushes,
Ripe grasses trammel a travelling foot;
The faint fresh flame of the young year flushes
From leaf to flower, and flower to fruit.
_Atalanta in Calydon._
Even in these fugitive records of my last journey into the "Extreme West,"
I find it hard to turn from Marrakesh. Just as the city held me within its
gates until further sojourn was impossible, so its memories crowd upon me
now, and I recall with an interest I may scarcely hope to communicate the
varied and compelling appeals it made to me at every hour of the day.
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