AND ANECDOTES. 281 or Siwah, as a retreat ; and being appointed by his father Seedi Muhamed, viceroy of the province of Suse , he was enabled to give succour to the Shelluhs, inhabitants of that province, on their pilgrimage to Mecca, and to entertain them with the comforts of hospitality on their passage through the Desert. This was the more agreeable to these Shelluhs, because, after passing a long journey of some thousands of miles through Sahara, they reached, at Santariah, not only a territory yielding every comfort and necessary of life, but a country wherein their own prince had authority, and wherein their own native language is spoken and understood.

When this prince's father, the emperor Seedi Muhamed died *", the prince Abdsalam engaged Alkaid Hamed ben Abdsaddock, late governor of Mogodor, to go to Santariah, and sell this domain for him ; which he accordingly did. It is more than probable that the Shelluhs of Siwah are an emigration from Suse.

Prostration, the etiquette ofthe Court ofMarocco, An ambassador from Great Britain was sent to the court of Marocco, during the reign of Seedi See the map of West Barbary.

* About twenty-eight years since.