108 JOURNEY TO RABAT.

P. M., we reached the river Tensift, which brings its water from the Atlas, east of Marocco, meandering through the plains and passing about three miles north of that city.

We pitched our tents under the walls of the (Luksebba) castle, on the south bank of the river.

We started the next morning at six o'clock, and travelling through a fine country, we came to a narrow pass on the declivity of a lofty mountain calledJerf El Eudie, a most picturesque country, and arrived at the port of Saffy at eleven o'clock. SafFy has no harbour, but a road where ships are obliged to put to sea whenever the south-wind blows ; the town was fortified when in possession of the Portuguese, and is situated in a declivity between two hills, so that during the rainy season the waters come down so rapidly that they sometimes overflow the lower apartments of the houses and commit considerable damage. On the 8th June we started from Saffy at nine o'clock, and arrived at the sanctuary of Seedi Cuscasoe at ye o'clock, P. M. ; and proceeding on, we reached El Woladia at nine, and pitched our tents. This place might be made a secure harbour for the whole British navy, by blowing up a rock which impedes the narrow passage at the entrance of a long and .extensive bay. From hence we started at halfpast five o'clock in the morning ; we proceeded northwards along the coast till eleven o'clock, when we reached the beautiful and abundant 11