The Whole Of The Inside, When
Brought To Table, Is Mingled Almost Into One Mass; The Meat Separating
From The Bones, Without The Smallest Difficulty:
It does not contain
any gravy, and the Moors eat it by handsfull.
I generally live upon mutton and veal, both of which are very good:
the bread and butter are excellent, but the latter will not keep more
than twenty-four hours without becoming rancid. My greatest annoyance
here is the infinite number of bugs and fleas, which infest me by day
and night most intolerably.
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._
_Fez_, - - .
Considering the mildness of the climate, the uncommon fertility of the
soil, the number of mineral waters, the fragrancy and salubrity of the
air, one would imagine that the frame and constitution of a Moor
cannot but be beautiful, strong, and healthy; yet, though the most
handsome people of both sexes are to be met with in this great city,
the number of miserable objects, the wretched victims of excessive
early passions, is in a much larger proportion: it is shocking beyond
description to meet them in every corner of the streets. I have
visited a great many of these poor creatures, and found them in such a
state, that decency obliges me to draw a veil over it.
The mosques of this town, which I have before mentioned as very
numerous, are square buildings, and generally of stone; before the
principal gate there is a court paved with white marble, with piazzas
round, the roofs of which are supported by marble columns.
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