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[[red underline]] burn the flesh of their sick [[/red underline]] patients who take the opportunity of market day for getting cured of their ills. [[red underline]] Fakirs wounding themselves with sharp nails and knives, swallowing glass, [[/red underline]] being bitten in their lips and tongue by snakes etc etc [[red underline]] What another world - and how many centuries, nay thousands of years separated from us. [[/red underline]] Yes, so lived our own ancestors not so many years ago. Then their druggists with herbs and every imaginable articles for curing ills, old skins, etc. reminds me of the [[red underline]] Old Pharmacopea of Europe. [[/red underline]] which included the same things. [[red underline]] Mimram [[/red underline]] is very enthusiastic about [[red underline]] George [[/red underline]] but s the contrary about [[red underline]] Crooker [[/red underline]]
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Fig trees everywhere. Beautiful song birds, with striking plumage. Lunch at [[red underline]] Hotel Transatlantique [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] a change [[/strikethrough]] an old Moorish "Palace" with some small rooms. Good lunch, good wine and good service. moderate prices.
Afterwards went to see a [[red underline]] French Captain [[/red underline]] who [[strikethrough]] allows us to [[/strikethrough]] gives me permit to visit old palace of former Sultan - now a museum and sends a stalwart well built and [[red underline]] keen looking Arab, classic profile [[/red underline]] to accompany us. There is is the beginning of a [[red underline]] museum [[/red underline]] this Palace [[red underline]] Mimram [[/red underline]] tells me that Moors do not know what to do with their money, so if they have any [[red underline]] they want to buy wines, slaves, jewelry, expensive clothing, houses, and any nick-nacks that come along. Only a few of them have