You may judge of the importance of our numbers :
Our encampment consisted of from thirteen to fifteen
camels, several baggage mules, about 100 camp
followers, including soldiers, &c. ; indeed, on Friday
afternoon, after we had been met by the deputation
fi:om Morocco, Mr. Samuel coimted about eighteen
camels and sixty horses and mules, with a few donkeys
in addition."

At every town and village on their route the travel-
lers, being guests of the Sultan, were received with
hospitality and respect. Each night the Moors in the
locality made " mona " for them and their retinue,
an entertainment, provided gratis by the people,
and subtracted from the taxes, which they afterwards
pay in kind to the Sultan. One of these " monas,"
presented by a generous Basha, consisted of four
sheep, a large number of fowls, a thousand eggs,
melons, a stupendous gourd, honey, ten pounds of
loaf-sugar, wax candles, vegetables, &c. Sir Moses,



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of course, made suitable presents in return. The
aged traveller finding himself unequal to keeping the
saddle, travelled in a chaise-a-porteur, lent him by
Sr. Jose Daniel Cola90, the Portuguese Minister at
Tangier. Long before the arrival at the City of
Morocco, deputations of Jews, and further escorts of
the Sultan's troops reached Sir Moses, and outside
the walls twelve officers of distinction waited to con-
duct him to the Palace which the Sultan had appointed
for his residence. Dr. Hodgkin's description of this
Moorish dwelling is very interesting : —

" It consists of two storeys, with an imperfect third.
In the basement is an inner court, with a small fount
in the middle, surrounded by apartments, which
served as day-rooms, eating-rooms, and bed-rooms.
