A Year in Marrakesh by Peter Mayne

Author:Peter Mayne [Peter Mayne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs, Travel, Asia, Africa, Essays & Travelogues, Southeast
ISBN: 9780907871088
Publisher: Eland
Published: 2002-02-15T06:54:39+00:00

A new day. No doubt it will be hot later, but for the moment it is cool and delicious. I have been looking out of the rock crevice and am delighted to find that the bay is as beautiful as we have been saying so determinedly. The sun has risen behind the cliffs so that the sand is still in shadow but the waves, where they break, are touched with brilliance, a long moving crescent of brilliance. There is a scalloping of sea-wrack and little pieces of what seems to be charcoal marking the point where the tide has reached during the night and, by a curious chance, our rocks stand midway between two swags of this uneven high-water line. Though we slept well, there was a period when the wind drove veils of sand into the rock crevice and later, about one o’clock, when for an hour we believed ourselves threatened by the sea. We sat up, waiting to be drowned and too tired to protest, but the waves went back again. During that hour, I had time to learn that a pneumatic mattress just sufficiently inflated to support the distributed weight of a body at full length is insufficiently inflated to support the same body balanced on its rump. Sitting, it was as if I were sitting on whatever was underneath the mattress – in this case, rock. We slept again when the tide went back. Now, in the cool of the morning, we have already made and eaten our breakfast – coffee, porridge (which Maurice calls ‘Quakaire’), bread and butter, glistening with sand granules. The American stove, fearlessly operated by Maurice, has worked like magic. ‘Quakaire’ uses up a lot of water, and our emergency supplies are almost gone. In a minute I shall attempt to scale the cliff-face, armed with a canvas bucket, and get at that spring.

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