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JOURNEY FROM TANGIER TO RABAT THROUGH THE PLAINS OF SEBOO, To accompany Dr. Bell, in Company with the Prince Muley Teib and an Army of Cavalry.

Officiated as Inteyyreter between the Prince and Dr, Bell.— Description of Food sent to us by the Prince.— The Plains of 'Wsharrah Rummellah an incom'parable fine and productive Country.— The Cavalry of the Amorites, — their unique Obsetvations on Dr, Bell. — their mean Opinion of his Art, because he could not cure Death. — Passage of the River Seboo on Rafts of inflated Skins. — Spacious Tent of Goafs Hair erected for the Sheik, and appropriated to the Use of the Prince. — Description of the magnificent Plains ofMsharrah Rummellah and Seboo,— Ar-abian Royalty. — Prodigious Quantity of Corn gtawn iii these Plains,— Matamo?rs, what they are.— Mode of Reaping. — The Prince presents the Doctor with a Horse, and approves of his Medicines, — Tlie Prince and the Doctor depart south-eastwardly, and the Author pursues his Journey to Rabat and Mogodor, I HAPPENED to be at Tangier when the {shereef) prince Muley Teib was collecting an army to join that of the emperor, which was on the banks of the river Morbeya, (see the map of West Barbary, p. 55,) in Shawiya. Doctor Bell, who had then recently arrived from Gibraltar, to attend the prince, whose lungs were affected, was to accompany his Royal Highness ; and, as I had nothing to detain me

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