Motor bus traffic so far is impossible, especially between the cities and colonies.
The question of supplying the isolated colonies with food is now one of the chief problems, since they cannot be reached from the centers. Several attempts have been made to send food supplies by truck and camel, but water soaked roads made it impossible for those means of transportation to proceed far from the cities. They were compelled to return without going even half way.
Thomas Calvert, English Hebrew scholar, wrote the “Blessed Jew of Morocco” in 1648.
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