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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, Cal. · Nov 12, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 45.

MOROCCO

No COUNTRY has ever had so great an opportunity as this country has for home missionary work within its own borders. God has brought within our doors large numbers of immigrants from different lands. Much can be done to reach foreigners without going abroad to find them.—New York Observer.

MOROCCO.

MR. W. H. QUILLAM, who has traveled in Morocco, sends to the Young People's Foreign Missionary Journal the following information:—

"Until recently, Morocco has been practically a terra incognita. Even now there is great difficulty in getting any reliable facts relative to the country, and altho it is only five or six days' journey from England, very little is known with regard either to the manners and customs of the people or as to the condition of the land.

"This soil is particularly rich, and very good harvests could be obtained without much trouble. If the agriculture were better looked after, the production would be greatly increased. There is not the slightest doubt that the country has great natural resources, which only need development.

"The backward state of Morocco can be readily imagined, seeing that there is not a single railroad, and scarcely a decent road outside the towns in the whole of the kingdom, with the exception of the road from Tangiers to Cape Spartel. What are called 'roads' are nothing more or less than mule tracks.

"Mogador has a good natural harbor, the best in Morocco. By the expenditure of a little money, it could be made to accommodate vessels of a large size, and they would be securely protected from the gales of the Atlantic Ocean.

"There is also a great difficulty in transmitting money from Morocco. A great curse to the country are the usurers, who, being under the protection of various foreign powers, are not amenable to the Moorish law. If some species of combined bank and discount office were formed here, it probably would become a great success."

makes the straight cross thread. They have been handed down from former generations like the plows used in their farming. These do not turn over the ground, and are crude affairs. Among the inland products are cotton, coffee, rice, potatoes, and bananas. The coffee is of the finest quality, and a large export trade is carried on through the ports on the gulf. Ivory, skins, hides, gums, etc., are also sent to the coast by caravans.—Selected.