their handicraft and art work is considerably different than we had found in the interior. They especially work with ebony and other dark woods and carve out monstrous looking statues about a foot high which they sell to what few tourists come through for about a dollar and a half apiece. Gerry found that by buying a dozen of them at once he got them for less than a dollar per statue. He found other handicrafts too. When we finally got our fourth class passage back to Casablanca which cost us about $76 apiece for the four day trip, Gerry was well laden. In fact his purchases overflowed into my own luggage. As I said above, the trip cost me about $800. What did it cost Gerry? Nothing. Gerry was about $800 ahead on the deal. The jewelry, art objects, handicrafts and other items were worth a thousand percent more than he had paid for them. A "Timbuktu gold" bracelet, which he'd paid possibly ten cents for in Timbuktu was worth five dollars and up in the tourist souvenir shops of Tangier. When I last saw Gerry he had disposed of approximately half of his loot in such places as the "African Art Shop" on Pasteur Boulevard, Tangier, but had decided to take the balance up to Paris where he insisted that he could get twice again the amount available in Tangier. These trips of his, he revealed, weren't just into Africa. In fact, one of the most profitable he had ever made was into the Near East. He entered by the way of Beirut, Lebanon, went over to Damascus, then on to Baghdad by desert Pullman bus. He shopped along the way but did most of his buying in the famous Safafeer bazaars off Raschid Street, in Baghdad. This, of course, was Gerry Rhodes' way of making an easy living while seeing the world. He made a point of visiting only such places as he knew could be gleaned for the type articles his European markets, his tourist markets, demanded. I would estimate that on an average he paid twenty-five cents for an article and sold it for five dollars. Could you do this? No reason why not. I certainly could have, had I the extra capital, and had I known the deal before I started. Gerry was wise enough to realize, before we left, that if I did the
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