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Show Untouched Morocco. Opon our ntlas at tho map of Africa, Af-rica, and there, set like a pearl on tho northwest shoulder of tho continent, you will seo a country railed Morocco. It almost touches Europe; at tho narrowest nar-rowest part thero Is but nine miles of strait botween It and Spain, so you might think tho Moors had become qulto civilized Id tho courso of ages through having Mich cultivated neighbors neigh-bors so near. It is not so, however. And, strange to say, tbo moro thoy seo of western progress, tho moro they despise It. It is a big country, this Morocco, and explorers havo left It alone, 'for tho imtlves detest Christians, Chris-tians, fearing lest they want to tako away from them their lovely land, whore It Is always summer, and whoro tho soil, if Just scratched with a crooked stick, responds with a teeming teem-ing harvest. |
