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Journeyfrom Mogodor to Rabat to Mequinas,to theSanC' tuai-y ofMuley Dris Zeione in the Atlas Mountains, to the Ruins of Pharaoh, and thence through the Amorite Country to UAraich and Tangier, — Started from Mogodor mth Bel Hage as my (Tabiik) Cook, ana Deeb as my (Mule Lukkerzana) Tent Mastet\ — Exjportation of Wool granted by the Emperor. — AJcJcermute depopidated by the Plague, — Arabs, their Mode of hunting the Partridge. — Observations respecting the River Tansift. — JeffEl Eudie, or the Jews' Pass, Description of Saffy, and its Pott or Road.— Woladia calculated to make a safe Harbour.— Groisoth of Tobacco, — Mazagan described.— Azamor the Abode oj Storks. — Saiieet Urtemma a dangerous Country.— Dar El Beida, Fedalla, and Rabat described,— Mausoleum ofthe Sultan Muhamed ben AbdAllah at Rabat,— Of Sheila, a Roman Town. — Of the Tower of Hassan, — Road of Rabat, — Productive Cowitry about Rabat, — Salee, — The People inimical to Christians, — The Dungeon where they confined Christian Slaves,— Ait Zimurh, notorious Thieves, — Their Mode of Robbing, — Their Country disturbed, with Lions, — Arrival at Mequinas, — So7ne Account of that City and its imperial Palace. — Ladies of Mequinas extremely beautiful, — Arrival at the renowned Sanctuary of Muley Dris Zerone. — Extraordinary and favourable Reception there by the Fakeers ofthe Sanctuary. — Slept in the Adytum.— Succour expectedfrom the English in theEvent of an Invasion by Bonaparte.— Prostration and Prayer ff Benediction by the Fakeers at my Departurefrom the

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