Show Q cw N r Ir tl v f s k i F f I Q QI v var k fJ f 4 I a N S 'S ar r eY W nr A Gate In Tangier by the tb Nat hat nal nol Geographic Society w D G C C k O OST T of northwestern north estel n M MO MOST l France has hus taken for her own But nut in n thIs tills Gallic em cm pare stand two enclaves es Ut lit UttIe littie Uttie tIe If It any Influenced by France the oIT of Tangier and the Sp wish Lone of Morocco The Tho chief cities s of the these areas Tangier dangler and Ceuta are s two nearest municipal bors In Africa Only the narrow alt altof of Gibraltar separates them from SIH lu Tangier l on the Atlantic cl side e of or the strait Is In a permanently neutralized find and demilitarized zone jointly by cs of ot GrE Great at Britain Spain and Italy Ital this arrangement was only arrived cd at In 1 8 The Tangier question was of such Buch delicacy that It was dodged bt b mutual consent for more inore than a adecide decade The Moroccan crisis Is of 1011 1911 be bet t een nonce and almost set et the World war off ocr three years before Its itA time and when hen peace was gas pre by hy the Test margin marbin the powers were el e glad enough to st U tI e a Tangier question lustily hastily aside by stating tint that the city was as to to be ghena givena ghen a special regime to he agreed upon later Meantime e a temporary Inter International nil notional commission administered of af fairs In the cit on and a territory of square miles millS round It and filled to please Great Britain who sho o wanted cant ant canted ed permanent FJ France Fiance ance who alto wanted the zone an anne annc ne ed d to tile the French protectorate or Sp tin do who wanted control herself hersel Situated only a few miles from Cu rope Tangier rangier his has been affected to a or 1 less ss degree by Western tern I for tor centuries Since the Moo s set up their power In to northwestern north northwestern western Africa the Portuguese Span and English hive hate h e at nt times held beld the place lilace but tile the English the last ot of the three to ha have hale e possession lon aban honed l It to the Moors in 1054 For or R a along along long time afterward It was one oue of the chief cities of the sultan of or MorocCo Morocco co But hut since the city has been Inthe In Inthe inthe the hands of ot infidels infidel It h is been visited only on the rarest occasions by b the sultans f lot or many centuries It has occupied a reserved seat on the African side sille of the Strait of Gibraltar In full view of tile the parade of ot commerce to and from Mediterranean ports but today Its unImproved un ed harbor does not permit dod dock docking Ing of larger ocean going vessels ves No Wheeled Vehicles In Tangier I 1 row rom the sea soa Ca Tangier Is the Arab city of North Africa par excellence for the ugly dashes of yellow green and rid r d with which scattered modern ha e ha e mati marled ed the other otherwise rise lsE glistening whiteness of the native na tive city are not distinguishable until the steamer lies his close cloce in l she llie he traveler tra eler from frum Europe will 1 tie struck at once by the total lack of the well known n rumble of city for thou h the uneven are In most part paved cd with fth whaled vehicles are practically unknown un tin known The streets are ne nevertheless crowded with other means of trans transport port o So o narrow are arc some of than that at the oft repeated lInk I Look out outi l I one must again and a again Into some doorway door uy In order to let duni eys mul mules s tint II and nIl horses with their lr spreading burdens pas pass by hy Camels have hate ha e to be b unloaded In the or place outside the walls salts Things s too Meaty Y to be carrier by a single anim il 1 t must hp he trans by men and It Is no un usua sight to see tee great lone stones th the theand e ennd and dr IT Ir feet Ion long slung on poles and borne by bv n a dorm doi 07 n or more half n hell Moo sIn sIn s sIn In these narrow streets the little box boxlike like 1110 hops chops waist high bite 1 e the proper oriental l felting to the whole hole In them them on one sees U tl tic e a 0 owner ner re reclining and sedately rl seemingly thus fous to the lie stirring seine scene around him until he Is disturbed to t LI n a purchaser for tor his Ills goods all of which are within arm s reach In the business section coffee coffeehouses hou houses es offer the principal Tangier recreation rations Patrons sit In groups on the floor playing placing with sith odd m cards or lean kan against the walls calls sip sipping bl I ping a n be beverage smoking their pipes and nud sometimes singing to the tune ot of ofa ofa a 8 native e orchestra Next elt l door an un on kempt seemingly more In interested ted In keeping hi his long stemmed J jape lighted than In making a sale aale alc presides 0 over er his shop displaying pot pottery pottery pottery tery brass e and trinkets lle al ais s are most Importunate The They beg for rims elites and often follow Collow a prospect pro until he yields a coin In the Homes and MarketAn MarketAn Market MarketAn An Americans American's description of a Tan Tangier gler gier residential di district would be bemore bemore more more marrow In winding ln lanes hemmed In bv by high white wills walls The walls are ure blank except for doorway leadIng Into courts A peep through an un open door re reveals repeals some of the city's tar Jar tar den den spots flower spot flower beds heds surrounding fountains fountain shaded by hy lofty lorty palms Some courts are arc also used as ns mints miniature ture farmyards farm where cattle cottle and fowls fos al are aie e fattened for the market Most h u elers agree that a 8 visit to the I irge market I Ing just outside otlie of the city aril Is well worth a n trip to Tangier There city folk foil mingle with Ith the rural folk foil from the fertile regions In the Men women and children camels horses donke donkeys c dogs and fowls s all are huddled to together ether In Inthe Inthe Inthe the dust amid piles plies of oranges has bas hasLets Lets of ot eggs casks cashs of es and lm pro stands for nuts dates candies can candies candies dies kitchen hitchen utensils and home made shoes The country s women omen welt wear broad brimmed strew hats The strict stricter stricter stricter er Moslems lems wear kerchiefs half balf cot CO covering ering their faces Around the edge of the market marlet place letter writers and fortune tellers ply their professions black blick portly Su Sudanese danese negroes In titters t dance to the tune of metal c cymbals and disks dangling about their boll bodies Ie and the fire eater eiter and sn n s n il it c e charmer amaze I throngs with their ele clever eleer er tricks I Of all the side sille shows that of the th snake-charmer snake perhaps ps Is strangest As his assistant beats a doleful tom tom he draws drass dra s a hissing reptile froma from from froma a sack allows s It to bite his tongue and wipes away the blood with sith a handful of shavings After cons com his audience that he Is really wound wounded wounded wounded ed he rolls the wet aha shavings in s Into a pellet s filch he places In dry shay shavIngs shavIngs Ings then I 1 hen he blows on the mass until un until til It smokes and later bursts Into flames Your native naU guide guhe will say he be Is a very er holy man The variety and congestion of ot life In Tangier give glye an Impression of she sl sl which the estimated census does not Ill rant The city has only v about 0 people It Is spread 0 o er er a ahalt ahalt halt bowl bosl bo I opening Into the straits of Little Is 3 1 manufactured and the exports are slight But nut there are arc heavy helvy Imports for points through throughout throughout throughout out Morocco Tangier s strategic Importance lies In the fact that It Is at the southern entrance to the Strut of find and as a fortified natal m al base bise ml might ht prove pro almost as effectual In blocking that exceedingly ly Important passage uge os as the famous rock roch Itself The city Is only 1 35 5 miles mills southwest of the Rock Hoch ot of Gibraltar and Is barely birely 25 23 2 miles from the nearest point polut on the Span pau Ish mainland Ceuta Is a Spanish City Different Is Ceuta C utu on the n side of the of Gibraltar and In the Spanish zone Modern Is a 11 military and penal station for The architecture and at of the to town toJ J are ure nanny Spanish For se several cral hundred 3 years the mo mosque que has been hlen used as a I The cathedral cathedra and the I IgO gO governors s palace palice are the only build bullit buildings In ings s of architectural Interest fhe me dlE with their an dent elent moat and s base e basebase ba base bae e been partly modernized I The he town Is peopled mostly by the Spanish h garrison and the ch civilian con cou convicts convicts There are a u number of Moon Joor rc there thue and colonies of ot J s sand and negroes I yang ying behind the southern Pillar Pilla of Hercules Ceuti Ceuta tins has the same ant ural strate strategic position as Ins hits GIbraltar Gibraltar tar opposite the strait 1 h to towns tons ns and ir it are arc kept In regular communication with Ceuta by steamers steamer and sm em ill III rem rowboats boats hoats equipped with one III lateen teen san salt Originally n a colony Ceuta was brought bv by b various sieges under the control of the Romans Homans In 1 in daIs Goths Arabs Berbers geese and Spanish lor I or a short time Ume during the Nineteenth century C Ceuta was even en occupied b by British troops but It was restored to Spain by Britain nt at the close of the Napoleonic wars wara |