History Of The Johnstown Flood

After Dinner A Few Of The Bolder Spirits Among The Men Take Counsel Of A Guide Who Leads Them To The Moorish Coffee-House By The Great Mosque. There They Listen To The Music Of Ghaitah And Gimbri Pay A Peseta For A Cup Of Indifferent Coffee And Buy An Unmusical Instrument Or Two For Many Times The Proper Price. Thereafter They Retire To Their Hotel To Consider How Fancy Can Best Embellish The Bare Facts Of The Evening’S Amusement While The True Believers Of The Coffee-House (Debased In The Eyes Of All Other Believers And Somewhat Too In Fact By Reason Of Their Contact With The Infidel) Gather Up The Pesetas Curse The Unbeliever And His Shameless Relations And Praise Allah The One Who Even In These Degenerate Days Sends Them A Profit. With These Facts Well In Mind It Seemed Best For Me To Let The Pictures Suffice For Tangier And To Choose For The Text One Road And One City. For If The Truth Be Told There Is Little More Than A Single Path To All The Goals That The Undisguised European May Reach. S.L. Bensusan. July 1904