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The Innocents Abroad

CHAPTER IX
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The Jews are the most radical.

The Moor goes to his mosque about noon on his Sabbath, as on any other day, removes his shoes at the door, performs his ablutions, makes his salaams, pressing his forehead to the pavement time and again, says his prayers, and goes back to his work.
But the Jew shuts up shop; will not touch copper or bronze money at all; soils his fingers with nothing meaner than silver and gold; attends the synagogue devoutly; will not cook or have anything to do with fire; and religiously refrains from embarking in any enterprise.
The Moor who has made a pilgrimage to Mecca is entitled to high distinction.

Men call him Hadji, and he is thenceforward a great personage.

Hundreds of Moors come to Tangier every year and embark for Mecca.

They go part of the way in English steamers, and the ten or twelve dollars they pay for passage is about all the trip costs.


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