In the Tail of the Peacock

A first-person travel narrative recounts journeys across coastal towns and inland regions of Morocco, combining practical itineraries—routes, camps, caravanserais, transport and provisions—with close observations of daily life. The writer describes Moorish houses, markets, courtyards, prisons, religious customs such as Ramadan and pilgrimage, and social arrangements including servants and slave trade. Encounters with local officials, missionaries, and other foreigners punctuate scenes of landscape from palm oases and river fords to mountain passes and desert fringes. The account balances descriptive sketches of people and architecture with reflections on cultural contrasts and the quiet rhythms of prolonged wandering.