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[[in red]] Morocco - [[underline]] Rabat [[/underline]] [[in red]]
[[red underline]] Rabat is supposed to be a port [[/red underline]] but huge breakers over the bar indicate improbability of entrance except under favorable conditions. [[strikethrough]] French int [[/strikethrough]] and I see 2 steamers anchored outside Small craft using inter in good weather and at high tide. French intend to make a port of [[red underline]] Sale' [[/red underline]] which lies on the other side of the narrow river and which seems more adapted. Excellent quays A tug-boat on the ways of a small ship yard. Cranes etc. Sail boats here have [[red underline]] square stern instead of [[strikethrough]] fore [[/strikethrough]] double [[/red underline]] enders Old fort. See Guide book. Drove round in a horse carriage. Old Arab driver left it to me what to give him. Walked around old town then to market place [[red underline]] Jews look intelligent [[/red underline]] and make [[red underline]] favorable impression. [[/red underline]] Seems
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[[in red]] [[underline]] Morocco [[/underline]] Rabat [[/in red]]
to be better class here intellectually many artisans amongst them
At the [[red underline]] market place [[/red underline]] was among [[red underline]] story tellers, fakirs [[/red underline]] and other [[red underline]] weird performances snake charmers Was the only white man amongst that motley gaping crowd of hundred of Arabs, [[/red underline]] barelegged and dressed in every kind of garb from rags to spotless burnous. One notices that all [red underline]]  the country has only been recently opened. Rabat [[/red underline]] new [[?]] [[strikethrough]] April 11. Left by [[/strikethrough]] town with its white modern houses outside of bed Arab town is a striking contrast and reminds one more of some newly built Californian town. Straight streets, well constructed new white buildings, better than any town in France. The