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 Landing at Tangiers.

CHAPTER I.

TANGIERS.

HERE are no two countries in the world more entirely different from each other than the two which are separated by the Straits of Gibraltar; and this diversity is peculiarly apparent to the traveller who approaches Tangiers from Gibraltar, where he has left the hurried, noisy, splendid life of a European city. At only three hours’ journey from these the very name of our continent seems unknown; the word "Christian" signifies enemy; our civilisation is ignored, or feared, or derided; all things, from the very foundations of social life to its most insignificant particulars, are changed, and every indication of the