ost reliable accounts at
present available are those of the _Times_ correspondent at Tangier,
while the _Manchester Guardian_ is well informed from Mogador.
Whatever emanates from Paris or Algeria, not referring directly to
frontier events; or from Madrid, not referring to events near the
Spanish "presidios," should be refused altogether, as at best it is
second-hand, more often fabricated. How the London Press can seriously
publish telegrams about Morocco from New York and Washington passes
comprehension. The low ebb reached by American journals with one or
two notable exceptions in their competitive sensationalism would of
itself suffice to discredit much that appears, even were the countries
in touch with each other.

The fact is that very few men in Morocco itself are in a position
to form adequate judgements on current affairs, or even to collect
reliable news from all parts. So few have direct relations with the
authorities, native and foreign; so many can only rely on and amplify
rumour or information from interested sources. So many, too, of the
latter _must_ make money somehow! The soundest judgements are to be
formed by those who, being well-informed as to the conditions and
persons concerned, and Moorish affairs in general, are best acquainted
with the origin of the reports collected by others, and can therefore
rightly appraise them.

INDEX

A

Abbas, Shah of Persia, 280 _note_

Abd Allah bin Boo Shaib es-Salih,
story of: protection system, 247-251

Abd Allah Ghailan, former rebel leader, 274

Abd el Hakk and the Widow Zaidah, story of the, 164, 165

Addington, Mr., British Ambassador at Granada, 354

Aghmat, capital of Southern Morocco, 5

Ahmad II., "the Golden," addressed by Queen Elizabeth, 9

Algeria, 281;
the French in, 294-296, 299;
viewed from Morocco, 307-317;
under French rule, 308-315;
failure as a colony, 309;
Arabs in, 313;
Moors in, 314;
mosques, 315;
tilework, 316;
field for scientist, 317

Algiers (El Jazirah), the city and people, 310-316

Alhambra, the, at Granada (_q.v._)

_Al-moghreb Al-aksa_ on the political situation, 381-394

Andorra, the Pyrenean republic of, 7, 337, 379;
its privileges granted by Charlemagne, 379

Anglo-French Agreement, 276, 279, 301, 304, 381;
clauses in, 283, 293

Anne, Queen, 9

Arabs, the wandering, 57-62;
tent-life, 57-62;
food, 59;
hospitality, 60;
in Algeria, 313;
in Tunisia, 322