Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Carthage and Tunis, Vol. 1: The Old and New Gates of the Orient
Most of the City of the Beys is under one roof - the far - famed Bazar of Tunis. No one sleeps in the Bazar. The rich Arabs, Who are faithful to their national customs, live in the tall antique palaces of such streets as the Rue du Riche and the Rue des Andalous on its skirts; the poor Arabs live in the reeats like those which stretch from the bab-souika and bab-menara. In the cool Bazar you spend the heat of the day, watching Oriental life. The Arab cares little to sell and there is little you care to buy. All the touting and bargaining is done 'by Jews. All the real bargains are outside the Bazar. The fantastic, romantic, delightful pottery of the bab-souika fills more than one page in this book; the ancient brassware, as romantic, is sometimes sold for songs in the street-sales of the copper-workers' soak; Bedouin jewellery and charms and saddle-bags you buy in the Baza'r when you have the good luck to meet their itinerant vendors.
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