CITIES IN MOROCCO
THE HUGE WALLS OF MEKNES. Morocco is described as a wonderful country where every city is different from the others. If Fez has its tiny alleyways, Marrakesh its Sultans’ gardens and artificial lakes that mirror the setting sun, Meknes is the city of huge walls. It was the home of a sultan whose weakness was a passion for huge walls. Here one can walk along a straight road between walls some twenty yarcis high that gives one the impression of walking in a strange dream. Slaves built the.,walls, and natives tell you that the spots which show decay are where poor slaves who had incurred displeasure were walled up as the building was proceeding. In Meknes this sultan built a huge stable for 10,000 horsemen. He gathered round him a bodyguard of the blackest Senegalese, whose black descendants to this day form the bodyguard of the present Sultan of Morocco, making a fine show in thair. red coats and white and red turbans above their ebony black faces.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 February 1943, Page 4
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