The Burton Holmes lectures; . of thatspectacle. The endless line of white, so faint and dim, 320 THE MOORISH E^^MKI:. \\hich undulates along the hillsides, is inreality the Moorish army drawn up inone unbroken rank, a living wallalong which the son of Mulai El-Hasan is to pass, receiving hom-age from the troop of every Kaidand Basha. As far as we cansee, the line, though curved andbent by the inecjualities of theground, is perfect, unbroken,the white, flowing garments ofthe horsemen looking like a merethread lying along the slope andstretching away over the sunmiit ofa distant hill even to the
The Burton Holmes lectures; . of thatspectacle. The endless line of white, so faint and dim, 320 THE MOORISH E^^MKI:. \\hich undulates along the hillsides, is inreality the Moorish army drawn up inone unbroken rank, a living wallalong which the son of Mulai El-Hasan is to pass, receiving hom-age from the troop of every Kaidand Basha. As far as we cansee, the line, though curved andbent by the inecjualities of theground, is perfect, unbroken,the white, flowing garments ofthe horsemen looking like a merethread lying along the slope andstretching away over the sunmiit ofa distant hill even to the city gates.\s soon as the princes train has passedus, we dash across its wake and ride UNIQlE PORTRAlr OK Ml l.\I , , l 1 • 1 1 KMFiiKOR oi MOROCCO aloug behuid that wall ot horsemen, peering through it at x\bd-el-Aziz as he halts before eachgovernor to receive the homage of the tribes. My onethought is to make a photograph of the prince duringone of his brief jiauses. Three times do I just miss my
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