338 FRAGMENTS have been saved during the last 15 years by vaccination.

Game.

All kinds of game are plentiful in South and in West Barbary 5 viz. el gror, a bird somewhat similar to the English partridge, but unknown in Europe. 1 shot some of these birds for Doctor Brussonetjthe naturalist,who was intendantofthe national garden of botany at Montpelier, which that gentleman prepared in the oven, and sent to the National Institute at Paris. He informed me this bird was a nondescript. Hares, antelopes, woodcocks, snipes, plovers, bustards. There is an abundance of partridges, red ducks as large as geese, ducks, wigeon, and teal ; curlews, in immense quantities, are found in the flat parts of the country on the coast ; immense quantities of doves, wild pigeons, woodpigeons, and large sand-larks. Every person is at liberty to shoot ; but the princes and the great, consider fieldsports beneath their dignity, except hawking, and hunting the wild boar, the lion, and the tiger. The Muhamedans do not prefer game to other food. When they have shot a bird, they immediately cut its throat, that the blood may flow freely 5 otherwise it is not lawful to eat it. Game is never seen in the public markets. When they shoot for Europeans, they dispense •with the ceremony of cutting the throat of the game. They reproach the Christians for eating such food, which they call (m'jeeju) •* strangled/*