In New Fez the chief mosques are: El Kabeer or the
Great, with its fountains and stream, a handsomely decorated
building in which the sultan prays in a portion
° f screened off from the public gaze, entering by
a door from the palace: that of Mulai Abd
Allah: and El Hamra or “ the R ed ”— with a prettily
tiled roof,— which stands not far from a small old one,
called El Baida or “ the White,” with its minaret all askew,
like a miniature tower of Pisa.
So much for the Fez of to-day, by far the most
interesting town in Morocco, both as to its history and
its contents, well worth a visit from the intelli-
gent explorer able to appreciate and study
things Moorish. What it may become in a generation
it would be bootless to guess. There is just a possibility
that it may still be the rambling city it now is, but
the chances are all in favour of its seeing many alterations
ere that, in its inhabitants, if not in its stones. It
is by no means improbable that by that time the proud
Fasis may have to ..own a different master from the easygoing
shareefs of the present dynasty. Who can say?