http://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/2008/09/20/september-20/

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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 wood to be turned is fixed ( Read more... )

http://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/2008/09/19/september-19/

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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 ( Read more... )

http://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/marrakech-16938/

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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 ( Read more... )

http://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/september-15/

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Caught a water-tortoise, about 8” long, outside the small zoological gardens here (evidently it had not escaped from within, though of the same kind as those kept inside.) It was in an irrigation ditch, swimming against the current & only succeeding ( Read more... )

http://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/september-14-marrakech/

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Birds seen on railway journey Tangier-Casablanca-Marrakech. Ibis extremely numerous, Kestrels fairly common & also two larger kinds of hawk or kite, a few solitary crows very similar to the English bird. No storks, tho’ said to exist here. ( Read more... )

http://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/2008/09/13/marrakech-13938/

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Summer Time observed in Spanish Morocco, not in French. Franco soldiers at the stations dressed almost exactly like those of the Spanish Government. Luggage searched on train, but very carelessly, by typical Spanish official. Another official ( Read more... )

http://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/september-10-tangier/

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Temperature here said never to rise above about 85°. Sea is fairly warm, water extremely clear, objects 20 & 30 feet below being visible when there is no wind. There is a tide rise of about a foot. Sea & harbour full of fish, but for some ( Read more... )

http://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/tangier-10938/

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Papers on sale in Tangier: La Presse Marocaine (morning daily Casablanca), strongly pro-Franco; Le Petit Marocain (ditto), impartial; La Depeche Marocaine (daily Tangier), somewhat pro-Franco; Le Journal de Tanger° (apparently weekly), seemingly non ( Read more... )