- False weights amongst the
Mogador Merchants. - Rumours of war from the North, and levy of
troops. - Bragadocio of the Governor. - Mr. Authoris's opinion on the
state of of the Country. - Moorish opinions on English Abolition. -
European Slavery in Southern Morocco. - Spanish Captives and the London
Ironmongers Company. - Sentiments of Barbary Jews on Slavery.
ILLUSTRATIONS.
VOL. I.
Interior of a Moorish House
City of Tangier
Port of Mogador
Christian Burial Place
Moorish Cemetery
Nubian Cavalry of Ancient Africa
Wadnoun
VOL. II.
The Snake-Charmer
City of Morocco
Fish found in Hot Springs
Water-Snake
The Aoudad
TRAVELS IN MOROCCO.
CHAPTER I.
Policy of the Court of Morocco. - Its strength. - Diplomatic Intercourse
with England. - Distrust of Europeans. - Commercial Relations.
Morocco is the China of North Africa. The grand political maxim of the
Shereefian Court is, the exclusion of strangers; to look upon all
strangers with distrust and suspicion; and should they, at any time,
attempt to explore the interior of Morocco, or any of the adjacent
counties, to thwart and circumvent their enterprise, is a veritable feat
of statesmanship in the opinion of the Shereefian Court. The
assassination of Mr. Davidson, some years since, is an odious and
enduring stigma on the Moorish Court, notwithstanding the various
efforts which have been made to deny the personal responsibility of the
Emperor in that transaction.
The Prince de Joinville was once going to open Morocco, as we opened
China; but bullets and shot which his Royal Highness showered upon
Tangier and Mogador, only closed faster the approaches and routes of
this well-guarded empire - only more hermetically sealed the capitals of
Fez and Morocco against the prying or morbid curiosity of the tourist,
or the mappings and measurings of the political spy.
