The Right Hand And Foot Were
Severed At The Articulation, By A Single Blow Of A Large Axe; The
Stumps Were Immediately Immersed In A Vessel Of Boiling Pitch; And In
This Miserable Condition He Was Turned About His Business.
I once
attended a man who had suffered these amputations; he soon recovered,
and, to my great surprise, instead of sorrowing for his loss, he
skipped about as nimbly as possible, and afterwards enlisted in the
police.
After the fellow was turned away yesterday, a peasant, who had
walked nearly two hundred miles, presented himself before the Emperor,
to complain of the Governor of his province, for not having done him
justice in assisting him to recover a debt of about six shillings. The
Emperor listened to his grievance, issued an order to enforce the
payment of the debt, and gave the poor man a sum of money to enable
him to return home.
LETTER XVIII.
_Moorish Character - Form of Devotion - Meals - Revenue - Poll-tax on the
Jews - Royal Carriages - Ostrich-riding - Public Schools - Watch-dogs._
Mequinez.
The established religion of the Moors is Mahometan. Formerly, as well
as at present, women were considered by the Moors as the mere objects
of sensuality, and only esteemed while in full bloom. At the age of
thirty, or at most forty, they were looked upon as an inferior order
of beings, and doomed to the most abject and insupportable slavery:
indeed, the latter circumstance still exists, though considerably
mitigated. No wonder then that the doctrine of Mahomet should be
cordially embraced by a people with whose inclinations it so exactly
coincided.
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