SUPERFLUX COIN. 89 you Christians know not how to practise; for you worship the idol of ostentation ; you invite your friends to dinner ; you incur an intolerable and injudicious expense, and provide a multiplicity of dishes to pamper their appetites, sufficient for a regiment of muselmen ; when nature and rational beings, which men were born to be, require only one dish. Moreover, your sumptuous entertainments are given to those only who do not want ; therefore is it an ostentatious and a wanton waste ! We, on the contrary, that is to say, every good Muselman, gives one-tenth of his property to the poor ; and moreover much of his substance is appropriated to the support, not of the rich and independent, who do not want it, but to {deefan) strange guests who journey from one country to another ; insomuch that, with us, a 'poor man may travel by public beneficence and apt hospitality from the shores of the Mediterranean to the borders of Sahara, without a fluce in (Jiashiiuh) the corner of his garment. A traveller, however poor he may be, is never at a loss for a meal, several meals, and even for three days entertainment, wherever he travels through our country ; and if any man were to go to a douar in any of the Arab provinces of our Sovereign's * A fluce is a copper coin, one hundred of which are equal to sixpence English.

In the corner of his garment:—The Africans have no pockets ; they carry their money in the corner of their garmejnt, and tie it with a knot to secure it.