while increasing numbers of private residents are attracted
by the climate and surroundings.
Several medical men of different tongues reside here,
and good foreign shops have been opened, some of
them English. Mails for the coast and abroad
Modern are made Up by every steamer at the British,
Conveniences. g panisb and F rench post-offices, which also
maintain couriers to several points inland and along the
coast, the Moors only vaguely entering into competition.
But what accounts for most of the local services is the
facility with which the stamps can be sold to collectors,
far more being used for that purpose than for
the franking of letters, as the issues are changed
whenever the demand falls off. Since 1887 the Eastern
Telegraph Co. has had a cable from Gibraltar landed
at Old Tangier and conveyed to a fine office outside
the town; the Spanish Government had one from Tarifa
laid by an Italian Company in 1891, and a French
cable from Oran is projected.
The Franciscans have had a mission in Tangier since
1750, and maintain schools for boys and girls, a hospital,
a church in the main street, and another on
Christian s partel Hill, familiarly known as “ The Moun-
Missions, etc. ^ ^ p ro te s ta n t effort bas been represented
since 1883 by the Bible Society agent, and since 1884
by the North Africa Mission, whose head-quarters for
Morocco are at Hope House, on the Marshan. Here a
hospital has been erected, bearing the name of the
first of the members who laid down her life in this
country, Miss T u lloch.f This Society has charge also of
* Formerly the only Christian church in Tangier was the chapel which
still exists between the Spanish and Portuguese Legations. At the time this
was built it was stipulated that its exterior should be indistinguishable from
a private house, and that it should possess no bell.
a woman’s hospital in the town, * and of a work among
the Spaniards, as well as among the Moors. .
The building formerly used for the Anglican service
now belongs to this Mission, which maintains an undenominational
service there all year round. In
1896 this temporary structure was removed
from the site of the new church of St. Andrew, previously
mentioned, in which services are held in winter under
the auspices of the Society for the Propagation of the
Gospel. Anglican Churches in Morocco pertain to the
diocese of Gibraltar.
The trade of Tangier is considerable for Morocco, but
as few important exports are produced in its vicinity,
business is chiefly confined to imports. The
. . Export Trade.
leading exports are oxen, meat, fowls and
eggs for Gibraltar, and sometimes for Spain, with occasional
shipments of slippers and blankets to Egypt.
Native curiosities and carpets are shipped, it is true, in
growing quantities, especially brass trays, pottery and
arms, but still their value remains insignificant, and Tangier
itself is almost destitute of manufactures.
The imports include almost everything brought to any
port of Morocco, for Tangier is on the way to Fez and
Mequinez, although as Laraiche is nearer, that
route is growing in favour. It is therefore
unnecessary to enumerate the various articles which may
be seen rudely handled and more rudely taxed at the
port, their only peculiarity being the larger proportion
of objects for European consumption.
The gardens to the south produce fine oranges, a small
and fragrant variety o f which, akin to the Mandarin,
hence derives its name of Tangerine, but they are not
exported, and the bulk even of the Tangier supply
* Formerly the home of the writer, in which most of the work for
these volumes was done.