Morocco by foreigner ayes !!!

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    Douglas Fox-pitt 
   
                                               The Barbarians of Morocco 

  I accompained  Count Sernberg on this little journey to Fez, not for the purpose of wringing concessions from the Sultan,  but to learn something of the people and the country.  
     To speak with authority and true understanding of Morocco and it's people requires sympathy and a life long residence amongst them. Although we can not claim to have lived amongst the Moors for more than a few months, we started on our journey in a sympathetic mood, and returned with still more sympathy for these misunderstood people. To say that we thoroughly understood the Moorish character would be to adopt a presumptuous attitude.
     Tourists flock to Tangier [-( nowadys to Marrakech as well)-], and,  after a conversation with a low-caste guide and a donkey-ride on the sands take boat to England or America,  and speak with the authority of ignorance on Morocco and it's mysteries. 
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Let Morocco remains as she is --- a land inhabited by naturally peaceful people, unspoilt by modern inventions--- an artistic reserve for all those who prefer the beauties of Nature to the throb of an iron piston. 
                  
 Extract from the preface of the book 

        The Barbarians of Morocco 
          By:   Graf Sternberg
  Author of " My experience of the Boer war"
        
            Illustration of: 
                 
             Douglas Fox-pitt 

    

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