ISBN: 9780217654890

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[ED: Softcover], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE SHEREEF " It may happen that ye hate a thing wherein God hath placed much good." The sky was all glory. It was evening in Tangier. Those who have been fortunate enough to visit that old city in the jaws of the Mediterranean Sea will ever recall the beauty of evening when the sun is losing itself for another to-morrow. To the west near the horizon one great spot of purple remained stationary while the whole heaven was subdued with a soft pink, imperceptibly melting into purple, casting a melancholy light upon the flat white houses of the city, and the green hills of old Spain across the straits. Words fail to describe. Innumerable artists who have endeavored to tear this strange beauty from the skies and reproduce it from their palettes and brushes have surrendered the task. It defies man ? it is the work of the God ? human ingenuity cannot copy. The crescent beach which stretches before the city, commencing its curve near the little wharf and gracefully losing itself at Cape Malabata, is always a picture in the evenings. Tourists from every clime walk along the hard sands to see the strange weird sunset over the roofs and minarets of Tangier they chatter and laugh, poking fun at the poor native womencarrying enormous bundles of brush-wood from the shore. Here are little donkeys there a flock of sheep or goats slowly going to the city around an old stone fountain near a squalid settlement of native houses a group of women are gathered, not caring for the sunset or their children who play in the filth close by natives, Spaniards, an occasional dignitary on horseback make up the strange conglomeration of humanity which is to be seen every night along the littoral before Tangier. Directly in front of the old sardine canning factory, beyond the fashio...Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen, [SC: 0.00]<

ISBN: 0217654894

ISBN: 0217654894