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they discovered all these caves with those fabulous. . .so they went and reporte4 it to the local Priest and he went out and down in there with flashlights and stuff and so they 8ot the archeologists who found they were the finest cave drawings found any place. And we got to see them One of those. . .I'll tell you, Kitty and I had more luck. You talk about @e luck of th& Irish because we weren't Irish, but anyway we had the luck of it. When we were in blarakesh, we were there about four different times and weren't in the hotel that particular time where. . .Churchill used to go to. . .but we were in another hotel, but we came in from running about someplace cause we'd just get a car and drive, we walked in and it was about two o'clock in the afternoon and the girl at the counter said, "Oh, oh, oh, Fantasia, Fantasia." Wq looked at ha, and she said, "They ride, they ride. Once a year." We said, "Where?" And She said. . .and she told us where to go and it was outside the wall. There were a lot of walls in Marakes4 and we went out there and there they were, all these guys that had come from all over Morocco, and there are no prizes, it's just the satisfaction that you can ride better than the other guys and these groups would be maybe twelve or fileen or as many as twenty-five with their Arabianihorses, beautiful horses, and old, old trappings on them with old fashioned saddles and guns. neir guns were ancient, all mounted and silver and long huge things and they had their daggerg, very similar to this sitting in their belts, (he grabs for a variety of small daggers sitting near b$ and these were young guys and old guys, and what they did, the idea was they were all lined qp at the end of the course there outside the walls there, people just standing around watching them, no grandstands, nothing like that, Anybody who found out about it, these guys trucked their horses in there and everything and they'd line up, take their turns and somebody, the leader of theigroup, would yell, and they'd all start running to the other end of this place, maybe about a block, a block and a half, and just before they got to the end, driving with one hand, waving these old bQmderbusses up in the air and with that, then at a certain moment, the leader would yell and they'fl dl fire their guns at the same time. Now that was the whole secret that everybody shot their g$s at the same time, and they had smoky powder in them and they'd make. ..a lot of them were &ost like flintlocks and so o.n, but now, the mortal sin was if one of the guys didn't fire at the saqe the the others did, and if you had this great big BOOM and then a little boom after or one boom ahead of the others, that was a mortal sin. That was the whole purpose. To be able to rid4 down to the end and everybody shoot your gun off at the same time. (Chuckle) Oh boy. Q. Anything happen to the fellow that didn't. . .? A. No, no, There was one guy and they were riding and something happened to his saddle, it came loose and he went over, he was at the front of the group. . .by the way qey're dl in their flowing white robes, Oh gosh. This is very very colorful. Once a year. We ere there. And this guy, would have if he. . . his partner next to him caught him and got him bac up on the run. IT he'd fallen in between, he'd been trampled by the horses behind, and he sav Maybe he didn't shoot his gun off because he was holding him up, this guy, on to that horse, After he'd pulled him up from in between, Oof! that guys life. ing his best to hand Q. They were like Dervishes? Whitling Dervishes? I
A. Yeah. These were businessmen and all kinds. These. . , Q. These were the local people? A. Well from Morocco, from all over. They came in from Fez or Marakesh. Q. How about Africa? A. Only North Africa. I mean we got over from Morocco to the Mediterranqm Africa. Yeah, we were in Algeria once, briefly, overnight I guess and then we were in Tunisia for about a week. I had friends there. We went out around Carthage and so on. He was an arcNologist helping. . .they were French, They lived out in Sidi Busaide, I think it was called. S I Q I (He spells it out). I cannot go any further, but that was an Arab village and he was in charge of. . .he was a scuba diver and so on. . .now this is way back, this is probably in the '50's when we were there, and there had been a huge barge of Greek artifacts, bronzes and things that were @en across horn Greece over to Cartage and it, right outside of Cartage there was a big storm gnd it sunk in about fifty feet of water, just outside of Cartage there, and so they, after the weathey cleared up they sent some divers down there and they'd go down, dive for a minute or two a@ then put some ropes on and the pulled up a bunch of the stone and bronze statues and retrieved them but then it just stayed there and so they decided to go down and see what they didn't retfieve. The little stuff, and so this guy, this French guy was in charge of scuba diving at that pqint, excavating, and they found all kinds of small s M that the others had missed. And they had old palace nearby, you see, if you're one of the rulers, you never use your father's old palace, y q build a new one. Q. What happens to the old one? A. Well, they became museums. But this was a magnificent museum. She worked for the museum. Spoke about four or five languages. She was a friend of Clarise mkox'. They went to school together out at MiUs College (Oakland) So she wrote them a letter. Told her where we were going to be and if they were available and it was funny, we were sitting the lobby of this hotel thew, and she said, "It's not TUNIS it's TUNEES" and we were in the bbby expecting to. . . they were to hunt us up. And we were sitting there having a drink and so 04 and we noticed this couple wwalk through the lobby a couple of times and £inally they zeroed in onius. We decided later that they were looking us over to see if they wanted to how us or not. Fhuckle) I Q. Well now, of all the places that you've been, where would you most wan to return to? A. Jihnmmm. Hong Kong. That's one of them. And who knows what it's ing to be afwr '97. Q: Do you mean Hong Kong proper or do you mean. . .? f A, I mean Hong Kong. We always stayed out on the island. Victoria's Is1 don't know how much of this stuff you've been to but we had good
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ARCWES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF UINOIS
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CATALOGUE Trutter, Philip Louis (19
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