LETTER III.
Conducted to the Governor - Medical Hint from his Secretary - Governor
recovers - Larache - Its Harbour, Shipping, and Inhabitants.
LETTER IV.
Excursion to Mamora, and thence lo Salee - Friendly Reception by the
Governor of the latter - Rabat - Tower of Hassen - Shella - Mansooria -
Alcasser - Quiber - Its Socco, or Market-place.
LETTER V.
Leave Larache with an Escort - Curious Custom on returning from
Mecca - Arrive at Tetuan.
LETTER VI.
Ill Usage of a Lieutenant of the Swiftsure - Disaffection of the
Moorish Governor towards Great Britain.
LETTER VII.
Sail for Tetuan - Appearance of the Coast - Enter the Boosega
River - Curious Towers of Defence - Custom-house - Female Dress - Enter
Tetuan over a Road of unlevelled Rock - Disagreeable Streets - Well
received by the Governor - Public Markets - Socco - An Auction Market.
LETTER VIII.
Tetuan - The Jews much oppressed there - particularly the
Females - Costume - Singularity of the Streets in the Jewish
Town - Ceuta - Would be invaluable to England - Melilla - Summoned to
visit the Emperor.
LETTER IX.
Journey to Larache - Annual Socco of St. Martin - No Christian permitted
to witness it - Express Order for that Purpose in the Author's
Favour - Specimen of native medical Skill - Reception at
Larache - Complain of the Impositions of Governor Ash-Ash - Comparative
Tariff - Effect the Renewal of the old Tariff with increasing
Advantages.
LETTER X.
Depart from Larache with a little Army - Moorish military
Salute - Numerous Villages - Customary Procession of the
Inhabitants - Judicial Arrangements - River Beth resembles the Po - Herds
of Camels - Arrive at Mequinez - French Falsehood again put
down - Excellent Road from Mequinez - Fertility and Luxuriance of the
adjacent Country - Procession to the Sanctuary of Sidy
Edris - Multiplicity of Saints - Ceremony demonstrative of the Emperor's
Favour - Take possession of my new Residence.
LETTER XI.
Imperial Review of eighty thousand Cavalry - The Palace - Introduction
to the Emperor - Visit the Seraglio - Beauty of the Sultana - Her
Indisposition - Her Influence over the Emperor - His Person described.
LETTER XII.
Succession of the Sovereigns from their Founder to the present
Emperor.
LETTER XIII.
Responsibility of the Governors - Empire beautiful and
productive - Humane Efforts of the Emperor - Blind Submission to his
Will - Great Number of Negroes naturalized - The Moors might be truly
formidable - Emperor's Brother - Fez divided into two
Parts - Magnificent Mosques - Commercial Privileges - Indignities which
Christians undergo - Singular Supply of Water - The Imperial
Gardens - Propensity to
defraud - Factories - Exports - Costume - Character - -Manner of
Living - Domestic Vermin.
LETTER XIV.
Fez - Debility of the Moors - Mosques - Antiquities, Roman, Carthaginian,
and Saracen - Storks held in great Veneration - Baths - Bazars -
Inhabitants - Residence - Menagerie - Marvellous Preservation of a
Jew - Lions - Tigers - Leopards - Hyenas.
LETTER XV.
Sudden Departure from Fez - Arrive at Mequinez - Attend the
Emperor - Melancholy Catastrophe - Expedition against wild
Beasts - Extensive Palaces - Seraglio - Visit a Haram - Founders of the
City - A fortified Town - Inhabitants - Jewish Town - Rich Attire of the
higher Orders - Numerous Market-places - Furniture - Saints
Houses - Imperial Field Sports - Pack of Greyhounds - Abundance of Game.
