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In Morocco 7Mosque, the scattered houses of the Europeancity showed their many lightsacross the plain.IVTHE KASBAH OF THE OUDAYASSALE the white and Rabat the redfrown at each other over the foaming barremains thick, opalescent, like waterslightly clouded by milk. One is temptedto say that Morocco is Tunisia seen bymoonlight.The European town of Rabat, a rapidlydeveloping community, lies almost whollyoutside the walls of the old Arab city.The latter, founded in the twelfth centuryby the great Almohad conqueror ofFrom a photograph by Schmitt, Rabat.Rabat.Interior court of the Medersa of the Oudayas.of the Bou-Regreg, each walled, terraced,minareted, and presenting a singularlycomplete picture of the two types of Moroccantown, the snowy and the tawny.To the gates of both the Atlantic breakersroll in with the boom of northern seas,and under a misty northern sky. It isone of the surprises of Morocco to find thefamiliar African pictures bathed in thisunfamiliar haze. Even the fierce middavsun does not wholly dispel it: the airSpain, Yacoub-el-Mansour, stretches itsmighty walls to the river's mouth.Thence they climb the cliff to enclose theKasbah* of the Oudayas, a troublesometribe whom one of the Almohad Sultans,mistrusting their good faith, packed upone day, flocks, tents and camels, andcarried across the bled to stow them intothese stout walls under his imperial eye.Great crenellated ramparts, cyclopean,* Citadel.