Abstract

A Visit to Wazan

The article focuses on the book "A Visit to Wazan, the Sacred City of Morocco," by Robert Spence Watson. The author excites curiosity, but adroitly disarms criticism, at the outset by presenting as a frontispiece a full-length engraving of himself in complete Moorish costume. The attitude denotes such perfect repose, and the face is so full of quiet satisfaction, that one is at a loss to know why he should have taken the trouble to write a book about anything, much less about Morocco. Nor does the wonder diminish upon an examination of the book itself. The principal information which one gains from his pages is the not uninteresting fact that he went to Wazan, and even unto Ezaggen; but his chatty conversation about the going and the coming is for the most part entertaining.