deep-flooded

Updated: May 23, 2025

None can fix the age of Tetuan: once upon a time the city was on the seashore now seven miles of flats lie between, and crawling mules and donkeys link the two, working backwards and forwards, week in, week out, jogging down with empty packs to the cargo-steamers, and labouring back across deep-flooded country half the year, under solid burdens, to the city.

Isabel Savory - In the Tail of the Peacock