Excerpt from Hidden Manna Here, I think, a preface is your due, and my boldness might supply what your modesty refuses. Persius has said that your knowledge is nothing unless another knows that you know it. I should like a few to know that this book is unique of its kind, because it represents Morocco the real, the Oriental, the esoteric. The high authority who has written a trilogy on the Moors has recognised as the only two serious attempts in fiction to represent them, your Bismillah and Hall Caine's Scapegoat. But the first is a slight thing, a love idyll, half in Tangier, and the other is but Tangier seen, the specialist might think, largely through the refracting im agination of the author. Now, Tangier is to Morocco as Earl's Court is to London. This book is the real thing, then, for the first time, representing places and things unknown to people of leisure, travellers male and female, great persons, and newspaper correspondents. You have, I dare swear, car ried your life in your hand to satisfy yourself; for in stance, as to the details of Shareefian feasts. You have, in brief, been a Moor, or you could not have seen much that is pictured here. That is immediate romance. Yours is the true spirit of adventure and the love of the open road which we share, and which so many town-bred, middle aged youths wisely affect. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.