A Tour from Gibraltar to Tangier, Sallee, Mogodore, Santa Cruz, Tarudant: And Thence, Over Mount Atlas to Morocco: Including a Particular Account of the Royal Harem, Etc |
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againſt alfo almoſt alſo anſwer Arabs attendance Barbary beſt buſineſs Chriftians circumftance confequence confiderable confifts converfation courſe court cuſtom defired difpofition diſpatched diſtance drefs dreſs emperor empire Engliſh European expreffed fame fanctuary favour feldom fent ferve fervice feveral fhall fhould fide filk fimilar fince firſt fituation flaves fmall foldiers fome fometimes fons foon fovereign fquare ftate ftrong fubjects fuch fuffered fufficient HAICK HAREM himſelf horfe horſe houſe immediately inhabitants Jews journey LARACHE manner maſter MECCA MEQUINEZ minifters moft MOGODORE Moorish Moors MOROCCO moſt mountains mules MULEY ABSULEM MULEY YAZID muſt myſelf neceffary Negro obferved obliged occafion paffed perfon peror pleaſure poffeffed prefent prince prince's promiſed puniſhment purpoſe RABAT refidence refpect renegado requeſt SALLEE ſee ſeveral ſhe ſhort SIDI MAHOMET ſmall ſome Spaniſh ſtate ſtill ſtranger ſtreets TANGIER TARUDANT TETUAN thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe tion town uſe utmoſt vifited whofe wiſhed women
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Page 336 - ... and wrifts is embroidered with gold ; this drefs reaches fomething lower than the calf of the leg.
Page 340 - ... in the performance of which nothing can be more grating to the ear, or more unpleafant, than their frightful moans or rather howlings: at the fame time thefe mercenary mourners beat their heads and breafts, and tear their cheeks with their nails.
Page 323 - ... caution, throws him inevitably on his back. The bridle has only a fingle rein, which is fo very long, that it ferves the purpofe of both whip and bridle. The Moorilh faddle is in fome degree fimilar to the Spanifh, but the pummel is ftill higher and more peaked.
Page 312 - X 4 fome fome time to get rid of my prejudice fo far as to be induced to relim it. At fun-fet they fup upon the fame difh, and indeed fupper is their principal meal. Such is the general mode of living among the principal people in towns. There are confiderable multitudes, however, who do not fare fo well, but are obliged to content themfelves .with a little bread and fruit inftead of animal food, and to fleep in the open ftreets.
Page 313 - They conlKtute in this em-, pire the only mode of conveyance for all public and private difpatches; and as- they are well known in the place to which they belong, they are very punctual in delivering every thing that is put into their hands. From their fteady pace in travelling, at the rate of about four miles an hour, and from their being able to pafs over parts which from the mountainous ftate of the country, and from the want of good roads, perfons on horfeback would find inacceffible, they are...
Page 320 - ... the head to the ground. When two particular friends or relations meet, they anxioufly embrace and kifs each other's faces and beards for a few minutes, make a number of enquiries about the health of each party,, as well as that of their families, but feldom allow time for a reply.
Page 337 - ... virtuous, he is at liberty to divorce her and take another. For fome time after marriage the family and friends are engaged in much...
Page 327 - Spaniards; another inftrument bearing fome refemblance to a violin, and played upon in a fimilar a fimilar manner, but with only two firings; the large drum, the common pipe, and the tabor. Thefe united, and accompanied with a certain number of voices; upon many occafions form a band, though folo mufic is more common in this unfocial country.
Page 341 - The grave is made very wide at the bottom, and narrow at the top, and the body is depcfited without any other ceremony than finging and praying in the fame manner as on their way to the grave. They have no tombs in this country, but long and plain ftones; and it is frequently cuftomary for the female friends of the depa,rted to weep over their graves for feveral days after the funeral. The Moors will not allow Chriftians or Jews to pafs over their places of interment ; as they have a fuperftitious...
Page 322 - I have formerly intimated that thefe animals are feldom kept in ftables in MOROCCO, They are watered and fed only once a day, the former at one o'clock at noon, and the latter at fun-fet; and the only mode which they ufe to clean them, is by warning them, all over in a river two or three times a week, and fuffering them to dry them-