Show inn M GOODBYE TO AFRICA j I I 5 Perils Peris of ol tho in A of or Cauto Couto I 3 5 Most MOlt Off Of the tha Const Cast CastS 5 5 S of oh Morocco I 8 n Lm L j n iJ t A I c I A N N TI TIU J ln rrt l November U I i 1 t h encountered many s In U course of ut these African wan wanderings ll but hut none to our knowledge that earns came so 1 time the 11 hairbreadth line lne as us 11 one which marked almost most I our last lat moment on time the tie Dark Continent Already th earner hind hall signalled that lust the tIme tIl of departure Wil at nt hand and ws we r hurrying to time the convoyed ll through DIP iii winding t lanes hmo of or by a mag ma II tucking Moor who might have All 1 U II hahn himself but hut wits was really noisily realy a II Tall fall alt straight anti and lm solemn with wih long lotI gray biard and Ind piercing black oy eyes blacker by contrast with wih his hll hi Immense white turban green gren morocco embroidered with wih gold on hits his stocking less 1055 feet and amid voluminous drap draperies of ot snowy wool girded about the middle by bya bya a a sash he looked altogether too imposing an In Individual to tn be ta Di tailored 0 dered about by Christian dogs dog tog Evi Evidently Ivl dently he hI entertained time thu seine samo amt opla opinion ion lon for rOI straight Ahead he lie without once looking hooking hack hick paying no nomore nomore nomore more heed hec to his lila charges than titan If It ho he h hhall had hall not a n liberal consideration lion tion lon for fur piloting us UI safe re to t port POI The Tho wonder Is that thiat wo mild did not lose 1111 lu tat luthe 11 the thu crowd crowds that surged BUre the tho labyrinthine alleys with their unexpected turns and should have ml ul iii dp P sacs aRCI Doubtless we wo done don II HO so and ami might still sti lie he hunting the thu th port pori had not the thu rear ot or our little II te pro procession cession bon brought up ump P by half hair a 1 doz dozen en ell youn oun Aral Ami pushing pulling and amid ni prodding us as 18 many unwilling donkeys donkey each diminutive beast laden front from henu heau to tall lath lal with wills wih our belonging Again AgIn and anti wo were compelled to retreat L hastily Into doorways to allow alo strings of ot asses aces to pass pan the time animals complete completely ly y obliterated p under bulging loads bails lod of ot rua or strew straw which scraped the time Jr wills walls on n either side Ilde or Imp huge camel carel over the tim Ih slippery tone stones on omm their great sponge feet tet snarling mining ann ami a showing honing their teeth leth when cruelly prodded by tho ho drIvers driven but bUI obediently o kneeling to 10 Arabic Arable command Or w Wv wu had hal to make way for a it scurrying troop of th the sultans soldiers who ho do tie not mini hesitate to trample under the tho hoofs of ot their whatever lacy Inny be In the path vath 01 rn a of mounted tel l edd r with wih dripping pl of ot the precious fluid carried carrll befort them on omm donk or of or returning from market who delight d to upon I Mr n em soniC Home om I of the abuse that l t le i their own lifelong heritage Our wn WAi met mcl near the Jour Journey I ney ho end Ht at the last lant turn lurn of the street nt within sight of ot the landing The ThA nar narrow row IW was wall w wih with Ith a excited throng through which we WI must force torce a 1 p passage ag or nuts miss mil our lr steamer The Tho central attraction wee wan a Ralto Santo or so 1 called Holy Man ManIn In other word words u as Mohammedan lunatic apparently of tl the ii most dangerous type In this timis land ol of o fanatics you OU know insane people how however ho however ever vIolent ate are permitted 1 to 10 range at atwill atwi atwill will and Indulge their vagaries wi unhindered ant because It I 1 I Ii believed that list Allah loves love 10 them above other men This ebony bony flew might have bave rome come direct from the Infernal region If Ir looks look count for tor anything wild rolling bloodshot ey er eyes foam roam flecked mouth In Its which yellow lIow snag nags n of ot teeth tell with the black bla k ness nellil of ot his hili skin and thick hick wiry Curling beard rd He lie wore WON no clothes clothe to speak sneak k the remnant of ot a brown gehab that list did IUd not hilt half cover hi hIs hll naked nakedness net and a studded with sliver coins from froam hung hun long woolen wooten ornamented wRit wl I sImilar pieces lecell of money Yells Tolls end and bloodcurdling laughter lauchter Issued from his hla throat a U AI he danced about brandishing his bare baro arms arose aloft In ono one hand he ho a red flannel bag bI b believed to contain charms and curses of ot equal potency and In the other he ho grasped r I i strike wIth rth ii 11 lt Its He l ov The face anti and Mint owns ItI scarred with snakebites but an lira ho hl im leaped to anti and fro flu amid around the time circle r V 1111 which promptly widened It i LI Ms imi would bring the head heat to tu his hll own mouth anti and anelI t I out OUI his hili tongue till It touched touch tI the fangs The reptile seemed to tn bite time the tongue r repeatedly platt but with no nil effect upon titon time tho lunatto except that list A 1 alet let drops drop of or blood bt oll trickled down On his breast and anti forth fortim another and larger klI mottled fellow fully CullY even ven feet teel long He lIe twisted the tiie two together anti and teased them In every mery fry way wa until unlit they became with range ran when wh n he ime would thrust hem thetis toward the spectator who scattered In hi all directions l that the th street was al barely barel five live feet wide wIlle nail all that weft Wea handful of ot hinted hated unbeliever er era must run the gauntlet of ot lunatic mill furious serpents I J thing you Yost will silt agree ree that thai It If not hot a n hair hall breadth escape ape It wa was IV at least leat an nn unenviable moment I It H to be a particularly good goodday day for snakes snake In Tangier Directly I In remit front of ot the spot Ilot where our luggage was now nilI on oil the qUAY await awaiting awaitIng ing Imig the time final vise ste a charmer hind had Ink on HI up nit hi lila hili stand HI performance wati Wat assisted by hy A band consisting of ot a n na as native lye live violin lolIn two snare share drum but hi his hll own savage yells seth and cries arias a nil as he ho exhibited his reptiles reptile drowned time tile discord of tit tf the time Instrument There wa suns a R bag bas full of ot serpent ot of varying 1110 alcoa He lie pulled out omit time the big biggest gent gest 11 what prevented 1 the rest relit from troma taking lakin refuge In ill our luggage I do not know and simm after going through n a Mr IMIr IMIrIe earles les Ie of contortions with It he lie h U it In time lilt middle with hi lila teeth ami held humid It II In hi his hll mouth while diving Into time the bag ba for tor two smaller snakes These fh ho lie endeavored to make bite each other still retaining the other gleat wriggler In Mil its teeth They flatly refused to fight though smartly pinched until ho be it applied their head to his hIli own forehead now nolte anti and eyes nyes Then Timen they woke up to business a II as nobody could blame them for fOl doing anti and struck repeatedly with all the tiny fury that was In them The Theman man did not move a muscle though blood trickled from the bites Then Timen no lie mall mails one of time the smaller snakes hold the big one by ft It Iu teeth suspended In tIme the theair air and various other performances were in program when wOmen we WI finally res es rescued cued our belonging and end got lot away from the unpleasant neighborhood This man mans face fa like the time Santos was coy cov covered ered emed In d with wears scars yet he ap ftp appeared peered In robust health It I II aM said Ill that the time make ire are really poisonous one bite being to kill an or ordinary ordinary alnar Individual but the charmers channel cb rm eat a certain plant pis lit which serves a as al on omm antidote We Vt were extremely glad lad of ot an opportunity to call rail at Ceuta the famous penal colony our wee having sonic orun busIness at It that rarely namely port 1011 U Tt UIs Itis Is III a small but Lut bold and MIl rocky penin peninsula lulL sula jutting out eastward Into th the Mediterranean directly Gib OIb Gibraltar rallar and separated from roam the treat great stronghold by a channel only fourteen mile amiles wide Though In tim Inthe the empire of Morocco It belongs belong to Spain Spun having been taken by the Por Poe tue e In iii some early curly 1 ware war and an en anu ud to Spain with J Portugal In 1580 80 1 And Spain ha has held It ever wr since lne through Innumerable though utan Malal Ismail clamored at It Ittel its gates gate tel with nil all hl his hili army Never Nevera was wasa a town more beautifully situated rising tier tiff above tier from fromn the blue Mediterranean to the th Seven Sven Hills behind whose top tops seem eem to touch the glowing sky Ik The village Is I cl elf elects II n and well built In the tIme style tyll the houses house bright with pink blue bilK bit yell w and amid anI purple stucco or surmounted with balconies filled with flowers and trees tree planted on both of ot time street strait The civil population I is Continued C on PaSO pago tet J GOODBYE TO AFRICA t p page ge ie seventeen enteen en pet perhaps haps twenty thousand strong and andi i ho the IIII number half hult AH RM tummy It ItIs Ita Is le a bishops see nee 1 and has lias a II a 11 palace and Ind a It House Houle of ot MellY Nev Never Nevel i was WIM u mercy more needed If It accounts lie bp true for tor If It hell can exist upon earth fluth for tor the th helpless and Ind unfortunate It Is lit this beautiful under und r Spanish method The rhe colony protrudes tram the end cud of the peninsula Ilk Ilki i s wart wn l on a noto trackless behind anti nd shark sea lieU In ht cont Those who live 1111 here mere are hardened criminals for political prisoners prisoner Mi lei Miriam them dom survive th the first firt wretched six months and th then n their poor bodies ate are toned to 10 the the only riven to the U condemned ml d At C Ceuta All nfl me I of or hammers wold od etl by to Is I heard The workmen are men hundreds hundred of ot them divided hero here and there among the rocks Into gangs No Indulgence IB is II shown to newcomers and each must break breall n certain amount of ot stone stan be Le between tween sunrise and sunset Delicately bred persons person who afro have never foyer worked t before students merchants nen n or o 0 letters rent ent here for tor some same alleged of ot ronco against the Spanish Sp mown crown are arc ranked exactly like the most degraded ed ell and hardened criminals criminal and If It the work they accomplish does not at nt ono once equal In ht amount that of ot men mon who were horn born and 1011 bred to labor they are hanged up and Hogged at It tight night In every cue case the Ihl lash huh Is ts wielded by theman the theman man lUan who happened to lilt alt lt next to the time culprit during the hour hours of ot atone Ins In and It If he docs Ioe not perform his hits part purt with vigor Igor to suit melt the jailers It Is III made ui elf v on his hl own bark back barkwith backwith with double energy It If a II man mill faints from fatigue during the time heat of the tho day 1111 dam ho he 1 Is the moment he re I Wins gu ne sensibility The prisoners steep sleep In holes burrowed In ht the rocky hill side without even a iii blanket to ease case their aching bodies bod Ie and nit If It to rid 1111 the tho earth of ot them In the quickest possible time thus be the end In view Spain certainly ac accomplishes accomplishes her purpose FANNIE FANNIF P It WARD IVARD |