kaids

The bashas and kaids of Morocco were all gnashing their teeth, while we were at Marrakesh, over the new system of taxation, which the Sultan and

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When their numbers have been greatly swelled, certain of them are drafted on as presents to kaids and bashas.

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One girl, aged fourteen, has been sold for no less than ninety dollars after spirited bidding from two country kaids; another, two years older, has gone for seventy-six.

Morocco S.L. Bensusan

The ground seemed riddled with these "wells," intended for the storage of grain, but used by sheikhs and kaids as their private prisons, whence at their will they draft on luckless captives to the public gaols: an old enemy is quite harmless in a matamor, with a square stone over the top, for the rest of his life.

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Mohammedan Sabbath, Christians will gain possession of the cities while the kaids and bashas are in the mosques.

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As of old, the kaids are concerned only with filling their pockets; the villagers, when not fighting, are equally engrossed in saving some small portion of their earnings and taking advantage of the inability of the central Government to collect taxes.

Morocco S.L. Bensusan

Even the locusts are kinder than the country kaids.

Morocco S.L. Bensusan

My lord sought soldiers from your people and from the French, and he went south to the Sus and smote the rebellious kaids from Tarudant to High.

Morocco S.L. Bensusan

A picturesque figure, passionate yet a philosopher, patiently tolerant of blinding heat, bad roads, uncomfortable sleeping quarters and short commons, the Maalem will remain alive and real in my memory long after the kaids and wazeers and other high dignitaries of his country are no more than dimly splendid shadows, lacking altogether in individuality.

Morocco S.L. Bensusan

Connected with the bashas and kaids, who are the only great men in the country or in the cities, there is little or no respect or formality.

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