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SIXTEEN YEARS OF AN ARTIST'S LIFE IN
CHAPTER II.
What is Good for our Fathers is Good for Us―How the True Believer gets to Heaven―Elegant Figures and Female Curiosity―How the Nazarene Woman Suffers for her Faith―The Sultan's Captain of Tangier―A Motley Crowd, and Life in the Streets―Her Britannic Majesty's Diplomatic Agent―The Call to Prayer―Jew and Christian near the Mosque―The Moorish Merchant and his Wares―Travellers see Strange Things―A Patent for Superseding Soap, Water, and Towel―A Jewish Bride, and Entertainment in Honour of the Betrothed―A Discordant Concert―How they Pay the Piper―A Moorish Dance.
When I got up from the sand, on which I had been so unceremoniously plumped down, I found myself surrounded by a motley audience, a posse of lusty Riffians. Their looks were fierce, and their heads completely shaven, with the exception of the long plaited tail of hair which hung down over the shoulder, and which, as they devoutly believe, serves for the Good Angel to take them to heaven
