HOSPITALITY OF THE ARABS, S41 batim reply that a very intelligent but irritated Muselman made to my animadversions on the absurdity of burying treasure. This gentleman's Father had been ambassador from the Emperor of Marocco to Great Britain, and to France ; and had seen much of French, Spanish, and English manners, among the higher orders of society in those countries.

Too much cannot be said in commendation of this generous, open-hearted philanthropy of the Arabs, here described: but the intelligent reader will understand, that it applies particularly to the Arabs, or cultivators of the plains, in the empire of Marocco ; and, in its large and unlimited extent, to the Bedouin or roving Arabs of the Sahara, and of Lower Suse, from whose (kahjles) clans, the Arabs cultivators are early emigrations ; almost all of them having their original stock in the Sahara.

It is also confined, almost exclusively, to Muhamedans, and does not, like the divine doctrine of Jesus Christ, with universal benevolence embrace all mankind, without distinction of party, sect, or nation; — a doctrine which hag lately been put in considerable practice in our own country, by institutions supported by voluntary subscriptions for the destitute, for foreigners in distress, and for negroes ; by institutions in aid and support of all needy persons labouring under sickness, or having need of surgical aid ; by institutions for the encouragement of industry, for the refutation of vice and im*