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Monthly Archives: September 2008
September 28, 1938
Distinctly cooler at night. Last night used blanket all night. Red hibiscus in flower.
September 27, 1938
Yesterday cooler. Some thunder in the afternoon, then an hour’s steady rain in the evening. Have not worn dark glasses for several days past.
MARRAKECH 27.9.38
The other local daily paper read here is La Presse Marocaine, which is somewhat more right-wing (at any rate more anti-Russian and more pro-Franco) than the Petit Marocain. There are said to be about 15,000 troops in Marrakech. Apart from … Continue reading
Posted in Political
Tagged Arabs, beggars, cost of living, drought, Jews, newspapers, poverty, Spahis, troops, wages, war
16 Comments
September 25, 1938
Yesterday morning blowy & overcast, then some fairly heavy showers of rain. Today no rain, but cooler still & windy. The reason for the galls always present on camels’ joints is that these are what they kneel down on, usually … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged Atlas mountains, camel, cannas, chrysanthemums, flies, hollyhocks, lathe, little owl, turtle doves, weather
11 Comments
September 20, 1938
Lathes used by Jewish carpenters who make the string-seated chairs etc. are of extremely primitive type. There are two clamps, the left one fixed, the right sliding upon a metal rod, with a metal point in each. The bar of … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged Atlas mountains, hunchback, lathe, mud walls, olives, oranges, superstition, weather, woodwork
18 Comments
September 19, 1938
For sale along with the bright orange half-ripe dates are others equally bright purple, about the colour of brinjals. Pomegranates for same in large piles everywhere. Some oranges beginning to yellow. Immense vegetable marrows for sale, probably weighing 20-30lbs. each. … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged brinjals, dates, goldfinches, lettuces, pomegranates, storks, weather
23 Comments
MARRAKECH 16.9.38
The two papers normally read here are the Casablanca dailies, Le Petit Marocain, obtainable about midday, and La Vigie Marocaine, not obtainable till evening. Both are patriotic, more or less anti-Fascist, but neutral as to Spanish Civil War and anti-Communist. … Continue reading
Posted in Political
Tagged air force, berlin, communist, fascist, morocco, neville chamberlain, newspapers, spanish civil war, troops
7 Comments
