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540 INDEX.

Opinions o( the Africans respecting Jews, Christians, and themselves, 315. Oranges of Rabat, superior in quality, and low in price, 11.

Oranges, 75. Orange-trees, very large, 82.

Ostrich's feathers, 67.

Ostriches presented by the Emperor Muley Ismael to Queen Anne, 393.

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Palace, imperial, at Tafileet, magnificent, 80. Palaces described, 274-. Architecture of, 274. Partridges, mode of hunting among the Arabs, 107. Park, Mungo, at Timbuctoo, 319.

', his arrival at Timbuctoo confirmed, 470.

, the author's translation of the Shereef Ibrahim's account of that traveller's death, 409. Mr. Abraham Saleme's translation of the same document, 413. Persian, or Arabian wheel described, mode of irrigation, 147. Pharaoh, ruins of, 80. 121.

Philanthrcpists dig wells for public accommodation, 150-Physicians fly at the approach of the plague, 165. Piracy, if the slave-trade were made piracy it would not abolish the traffic, 270. Plague, fragments respecting, 156. Progress of, 157. Decrease, 161. The plague political, 164. Emperor's minister attacked by it, writes to the British consul for advice, 165. — , supposed origin of, 166. The author an eye-witness of it, and visited the infected, 167. Progress of, 167. Remarkable instance of a village in the neighbourhood of Mogador being free from the epidemy thirty-four days after it appeared at Mogador, although the communication was open between the two places, 168. Haha, destruction in, by the plague, 169. Peculiarities of, 169. Destruction of the plague in Suse, 169. General depopulation caused by it, 170. Consequences of, on the survivors, 171. Gradations in society overturned by the plague, 171. Emigrations from Sahara consequent to the plague, 172. Symptoms, various of, 173. Olive oil, external application of, infallible, supposed origin of, 174. Superstitious opinion respecting the plague, 175. Author's precaution against, 177. Fear, its effect in communicating the infection, 178. Remedies used, 178. How caught, 179. Plague cases of, 180.

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