ARABIC LETTERS. SSJ estimation with you, When your servant came to us, he found we had two small young lions, wherefore by him we send them to you. And know, that we have received by our servants from your Master, three coach-horses, now a coach requiresjwr horses to draw it, wherefore you must needs send us another good one of the same kind and size, that they may draw the coach with four horses. Oblige us in this by all means. Farewell : we depend upon it. Written 7th of the sacred month Du El Kadahy in the year of the Hejra, ninety-three and a thousand, (A. D. 1682.)

Letter II.

From the same Muley Ismael to Sir Cloudedy Shovel, on board the Charles Galley, off Salee, written Aug, 26.

A. D. 1684, year ofthe Hejra 1095.

L. S.

I, Kcrrant of God, and Emperor of Marocco and King of Mauritania, whom God preserve in all his undertakings, &c.

I SALUTE you and the rest of the captains. As for the captives you have taken, they belong to several places, and are not all my subjects ; and what I do is out of charity, as they are Muhamedans, being forced to go to sea for want of maintenance. As for those that are my soldiers, they go to sea to fight and to die in my quarrels } c c 2