advice; they keep their country closed as far as they
can, refusing administrative reforms which would prevent
excuses for annexation. Why should we trouble them?
It were better far to come to an agreement with France,
and to acknowledge what will prove itself one day, that
France is the normal heir to Morocco whenever the
present Empire breaks up.
N o t e .— For such facts concerning ccUnknown Morocco’’ as it has been
possible for foreigners to glean from natives, the reader is referred to
Le Maroc Inconnu, by M. Mulieras. MM. De la Martini&re and De la
Croix also have compiled four large volumes of Documents sur le Nord-
ouest Afrique, but as these are French Government property, their circulation
is prohibited. The method adopted by these scholars, of piecing
together native reports, is most ingenious, and pending exploration, invaluable.
From time to time we are presented with fresh maps produced by
this system, in which nothing is left in doubt, but the minutest details
are filled in with the precision of a trigonometrical survey. The Frenchman
as a student is nothing if not sublimely self-confident. Yet a map of
North-Morocco published by our own War-Office within a decade shows
an arm of the sea running up the hill behind Tangier: but perhaps this
information was intended for the French.
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