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Long Captivity
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ADVE N TURE Ss
7 Demis Pile
In SoutTu-BwARBaRyY,
Giving an Account of his being taken by two |
Sallee Rovers, and carry’d a Slave to Mequine Zig
Bhs
at Eleven Years of Age: His various Adventures in
that Country for the Space of Twenty- three Years,
Efcape, and Return Home.
In which is introduced,
A particular Account of the Manners and Cuffams of
Emperors, and a Relation of all thofe great Revolutions —
and Bloody Wars which happen’d in the Kingdoms of Fex
and Morocco, between the Years 1720 and 1736. |
Together with a Defcription of the Cities, Towns, and Pub:
lick Buildings in thofe Kingdoms 5 MiJeries of the Cbriffian se Fs
_and many other Curious Particulars.
Written by Himsetry,
The Second EDITION.
Printed for R. Goapsy, and fold by W. Owen, Bookteller, x
at Temple Pitas LONDON,
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THE
PREFACE
E need fay nothing more to raife ihe
Attention and Curiofity of the Rea-
DER tothe Perufal of the following HISTORY, _
than that it is truly genuine, -bemngthe real.
Journal of the unhappy Sufferer, written by
his own Hand: The Faéis and Adventures it
relates, are of fo extraordinary a Nature, afford
fo great a Variety of Entertainment, and
_ have been fo little mentioned by any other Wri-
ter, that it cannot fail of gratifying the Curio-
fity, and giving Pleafure to every Reader. Here
be will find defcribed the Manners, Cuftoms,
Temper aud Genius of a People, all entirely
different from bis own. Here be will fee the
moft Savage Wars, and the moft violent Revo-
lutions, ¢hat ever happened in any State or
Kingdom: Here too his Eyes will be frruck wit
ibe piteous Spectacle ef bis Fellow Countrymen
enduring:
t2]
itioe Hardfhips and Cruelties, which, bie
to think of, is dreadful Horror, and which |
may ferveto raifein him amoft tender Com-
paflion for fuch unhappy Sufferers, and the
mofe grateful Acknowledgements to the AL-
MIGHTY, that be bimfelf bas been exempted
from fuch fevere Trials: Here, likewife, the
Reader will have-a true and lively Picture of
the vaft Mileries which thofe who are fubje@
to. an Arbitrary Government, continually groan
under ; and will, by that Means, have a higher
and more aelighiful Relifh of the exceeding Hap-
pinels be enjoys, in living under an Englith Go-.
vernment, where bis Lite and Property as
always f{ecure, where he is fubjett to the Laws
only, and where be cannot be violated by Arbi-
trary Power ; fo that, if there was nothing te
recommend this Book, but the true Picture it
gives of Arbitrary Goverament, (which muft
naturally reife in our Breaft the mo utter De-
teftation of it, and put us upon our Guard againft
every Encroachment on Publick Liberty) 7¢
— would well deferve the Perufal and Favour of
every Son of Britifh Liberty.
We have hitherto had very little Information
concerning the mighty Kingdoms of Kez, Mo-
rocco, &c. the Nature of their Inbabitants, &c.
few, if any, having travelled into thofe Parts ;
and ihofe who have, not having had fufficient
Baers of eee Whereas, the
Writer
ia] :
Writer of this Hiftory, by his long Abode in ihe
_ Country for the Space of 23 Years, and by bis
ouiward embracing of the Mahometan Faith,
and becoming, asit were, one of the Natives, bod
repeated Opportunities of knowing and notin ‘
every Thing worthy Obfervation, or which coul
give him a thorough Knowledge of the Nature
and Temper of the Inhabitants , and fiill the
more fo, as he was fo-long employed in the Pa-
Jace about the Emperor’s Perfon, and afterwards
fo much concerned in all their bloody Wars.
«There appears through the whole Hiftory, 4
certain Air of ‘Truth and Ingenuity, which
eafily diftinguifbes it from Romance and Fiction ;
and the Writer is careful to relate nothing but
what he had a Perfonal Knowledge of.
Upon the Whole, it is, in the Opiniou of thofe
who bave perufed the Manufcript, the moft ex-
traordinary and entertaining Hisrory that bas
been publifbed for many Years, and, it’s thought,
will afford as agreeable an Entertainment to the
Publick in general,
Ag THE
OFS THE
Long Caprzvity and Adventures
O F
Tuomas PEL, OW;
HE exceeding Love and great
z Compaffion of GOD towards
he sé: Mankind in general, fhews us
ay how good, gracious, and mer-
X\: ciful He is to all who love,
tA\\\ fear, and ftedfaftly believe in
2G¥\ Him, and His Son Jesus
, CuRisT, our Lord ; and how,
of his eat Previdence, He (contrary to all Human
Emagination, and even our own Expectations)
ine bringeth
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bringeth the Prifoner out of Captivity, as he’ hath,
of his infinite Mercy, (in his own appointed Time) -
delivered me, his poor unworthy Servant, out of
the Hands of cruel and Blood-thirfty Men, aftera
long and grievous Slavery, for the Space of almoft
23 Years, in South Barbary, bringing me by the
right Way to the City where I dwelt, thereby deli-
vering me from my Prifon and Chains, and probably
from everlafting Death : For ever and ever blefledbe
his moft Holy Name, Amen,
the Reign of our late Sovereign Lord King
George the Firft, and of ourLordCurist 17155
I being at the Latin School in Penryn, in the
County of Cornwall, and Foln Pellow, my Uncle, bes -
ing about to proceed on a Voyage from Falmouth ta
Fowey, and thence for.Genoa with Pilchards, in thé
good Ship Francts, Valentine Enes, (then of Penryn}
Merchant, the Owner ; and I by no Means liking
my fo early rifing, and (as I then thought) moit
fevere Difcipline of the School, fo far infinuated my-
felf into my Uncle’s Favour, as to get his Promifé
to obtain the Confent of my Parents for me to go a-
Jong with him ; and. which indeed he did, though: not
without much Difficulty, they urging the Hardfhips
_ which probably I might, in my fo tender Yearsy
undergo thereby, and their ominous Fears‘of our
falling. into the Hands of the AZoors, who were then
at open War with. us, and had, as they faw_ by the
News Papers, very lately taken fome of our Ships ;
fo that it was with’ the greateft Reluctance and Re~
gret that I obtained their Confent, which at lit I
_did,. and was loon rigged in my Sailor’s Drefs 5 and
A
3 after
if N the Eleventh Year of my Age, the Second of |
a 2 |
after taking (as it prov’d) my fo long, long Farewell |
ef my Friends,: our Ship failed from Falmouth to |
Fowey, where in a few Days we compleated our
Cargo ; and as foon as all other our neceflary Bufi-
nels was difpatehed, we fet fail for our defired Port.
Of which our Voyage it cannot be expected I fhould _
give any particular Account; as I had never becn at
Sea before, and was entirely unacquainted with the
Method of keeping a Journal; but I well remem-
ber that I foon began to repent of.my rafh Under-
taking, and heartily with’d myfelf back again, tho’ -
even to be again fent to the Latin School, my Uncle
keeping me fo clofe to my Book, that I had very
ttle or no Time allow’d me for Play ;and which, if
Fat any Time prefum’d toborrow, J failed not ofa
-moft fure Payment by the Cat of. Nine Tails; fo
that, by the Time we got to Genoa, I thought I had ,
enough of the Sea, being every Day, during our Voy-
age out, obliged (over and above my Book-learning)
to go up to the Main-Top-Maft-Head, even in all —
Weather,
ALL which (though very irkfome to me then) I.
now moft gratefully acknowledge, and plainly fee,
was only intended for my Good ; and had not our —
fad Misfortune of falling into the Hands of the Jnfide/s,
and our long. unhappy Slavery prevented it, my Un-
ele would have certainly made me a compleat Sailor,
as be himfelf was, by thofe who knew him, allow’d
to be; but what GOD thinks proper fhould be, no
Human Power can prevent, |
ANp now, indeed, the unhappy Part of my Life
draws near ; for haying made our Voyage, our Care
goes out and in, and by GOD’s Providence bound
; ; Home
bee
Home, we were, off Cape Fini/ferre, very unhappily
furprized by two Sallee Rovers, and, together with
Captain Foffer, of Topfham, (after fuch {mall Refif-
tance as we could both make) taken and carried Pri-
foners on board of the Znfidels, as was alfo the next
Day Captain Ferris of London, in a Ship of much
greater Strength, having twenty Men, eight Swivel
anid eight Carriage Guns, though they behaved in
the bravett Manner, fighting ten Hours, and with a¢
noble Refolution, putting the Moors off after board-
ing them three Times, and killing many of them
but being overpower’d by a fuperior Force, they
were alfo obliged to fubmit, and to become eur Com-
rades.
Ir is impoffible for me to defcribe the Agony F
was then in, being feparated from my Uncle; he
being, together with Briant Clarke, Jabn Crimess ,
and ‘fohn Dunnal, (three of our unhappy Men) con-_ -
fined on board one of the Salleeteens, commanded
by Ala Hacam; and myfelf, with Lewis Davies,
George Barnicoat, and Thomas Goodman, the other
three, (our whole Number confifting but of eight
Perfons) on board of the other, commanded by El-
hafh Aidrabaman Medune, the Admiral of Salleey
where we were clofely confined, and treated after a
barbarous Manner, during the Space of one whole
Month, which the Infidels paffed in looking fharp out
after other Prey, and in examining into the Value of
our Cargoes, according to our feveral Invoices
and Bills of Lading, the Prizes being fent to Sallee
for better Security, and to leave them at more
Liberty to encounter others. during the Time of
their Cruize ; but feeing no Likelihood of any more
Prizes and their Provifion growing fhort, they fol-
A 4 | lowed
te |
lowed the Prizes, and found them fafeat Anchor oa)
the Outfide of the Bar of Sa/ce; when, on a Sig-|
nal from the Shore of theré being Water enough on
‘the Bar to carry them over, the Prizes were ordered
$0 weigh, and got all well in, the Sal/eeteens calting
Anchor wathout till the next Day; when, about.
Noon, the /nfdels being in their Jollity, were all on’
the fudden in an extream Hurry om their Difcovery of
a Sail ftanding right in from Sea upon them, they
erying out, in great Confulhon, Garnoe Garnee !
meaning thereby Captain De/gardenoor who they knew.
@hen commanded a Briti/h Man of War of 20 Guns
en that Station ; and as they feared fo it proved, for
it was Garnoe indeed ; but, alafs! too late for our Af-
fiance. Afedune weighing his Anchor, and A/aba-
cam Mipping his Cable, they ran both a-grcund on
the Bar, Delgardencor following fo near them-as in,
Safety he might, fome of his Shot fying about them,
and fome of them far beyond them, infomuch thar
they were both, through Means thereof, anda great.
Sea, foon beat to Pieces, and almoft every one that
could fwim, fwimming for his Life; but, for my
Part, I could fwim but very little, and which, had I
attempted, the merecilefs Sea) muft foon have over-
whelmed me; fo I cry’d to Lewes Davies (who |
knew could fwim very well) for Affiftance, though
from hira I could get none, he faying (and very truly}
That all bis Strength was highly neceffary towards bis
awn Prefer vation 5 and, that fbould he take me ou his
Back, it would in all Likelihood, tafe both our Lives ;
whereas, by his throwing himfelf into the Sea difen-
tangled, and Ff getting on the Maft (which was cut
down) it meght be a Means of preferving both of us ;
and which, through the wonderful and ready Help
ef Almighty God aflifting, (He having ordained us
| for
Eo
for far longer and more grievous Trials and Suffer-
Ings) accordingly happened ; Davies committing hime
felf to the Waves, and I myfelf to the Matt, from
which I was taken by fome People in a Boat from
the Shore : As to the A@oors, they were under no
Apprehenfion of Danger from the Sea, leaping inte
it, and fwimming to Shore like fo many Dogs.
Ir may be eafily imagined what fad Terror and
Apprehenfions I] was under in fo dangerous a Situa-
tion; for though I could fee nothing elfe, by being
delivered from Death, than more grievous. Torments
in my becoming a Slave, Ge. yet did I endeavour all
in my Power to avoid it, and fave myfelf,
Beinc now all fafely landed, we are, in a very
low and feeble Condition conducted to two fepa-
rate Prifons ; myfelf, Lewis Davies, M. Goedmany
and Briant Clark, with divers others of Foffer’s and
Ferris’s Men, in all 26, to New Sallee,* and my
Uncle, Fobn Dunnal, Thomas Crimes, and George
Barnicoat, with feventeen Frenchmen taken in other
Ships, and the reft of Foffer’s and Ferris’s Men, 26
more, to Qld Sailee, and for three Days clofely fhut
ae
* Saues is built on the Banks of the Guerox, which
falls from the Mountains of Zaovias, and divides it into
two Parts That on the North Side is called by the Na-
tives Seda, but by us Sal/ee. It is encompafled by good
Walls, about fix Fathom high, andtwo Yards and a half
thick, compofed of Clay, Red Sand and Lime worked to-
gether, after the Manner of the Country, On the Top
of the Walls are Battlements, flanked with good Towers,
The other Part of the Town, which lies on the South Side
- Of the River, is called Rava/, and occupies a much larger
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up there, and our Allowance by the Afors nothing |
but Bread and Water, though I mutt thankfully own |
that we met with fome better Refrefhment through’
the Goodnefs of fome French and [rifh Merchants
refiding there ; which was to us, in our fo weak
and difconfolate Condition, of very great Service.
On
Compafs than the former. Within the Circumference of
this Town are abundance of Gardens, and a large Field,
where they might fow Corn enough to ferve fifteen han-
dred Men. Its Walls are very ancient ; the Natives fay
they were built by the firlt Corifiazs whe were brought
out of Europe by the Generals of Facob Almanzor, King
of Arabia Felix, who conquered Spaiz. On the South
Raft Quarter ftands a high Tower, called Ha/ans, which
ferves as a Land Mark for Ships to comein. At the Foot
of this Mountain are Docks for building Ships, and for
them to winter in. The Afcent of this Hill is fo gentle,
thata Man may ride oii Horiedack to: the’Top:
SALLEE has at prefent two Cafiles, the old and the new:
The old one ftands direfily at the Mouth of the River
Guerou, next to which its WaHs are built on Rocks, and
very lofty, fheltering the Governos’s Hioufe, which joins
to them, from any Cannon Shot. This Caftle is very ir- .
regular, being built according as the Ground would per-
mit. The Wails fronting the River are for the moft Part
of fquare Stones, with feveral Towers built by AZudey
Semein.. Within this Caftle, and before its principal Gate,
is a high Fort, which commands the Town. Below,
next the Sea, on the Point of the Rock, facing the Bar,
is a Battion, mounted with five Pieces of Cannon, to fe-
cure the Veffels which come to an Anchor in the Road,
and cover the Retreat of the Cor/oirs, when purfued by the
Cbriftians, The Walls next the Sea are low, and very
eafy to be fcaled, Heaps of Dung and Earth lying againit
them, almoft of the: fame Height. It is deftitute of
freth Water, except what they fave ina large Ciftern,
which receives all the Rain falling on the flat Roofs it
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ae
On the fourth Day we were all, in Number Fifty-
two, taken out thence, and fent Prifoners to M/e-
gutnez, fome being put on Mules, fome on Affes, and
fome on Horfes; on one of which my Uncle and I
_ were mounted together. We travelled the firft Day
to Lorfbia, being obliged in our Way hither to pafs
through the Woods of Sallee, which were plenti-
fully ftored with moft ftately Timber Trees, 28
Oaks, &e. vaft Quantities of Wild Hogs, Lions,
Tigers, and many other very dangerous Creatures :
The fecond Day to the River Teffilfille though by
fome called Te/i#?a, in the Province of Wolelfager :
The third to Darmulfultan 5 and the fourth, about
Sun-rifing, (is being but three Miles Travel) into
Mequine ; * all the Way lodging in Tents, as be-
ingjin that Part of the Country the only Habitations 5
and
the Houfes. There is alfo a Well, but the Water is
brackith, and ferves only for the Cattle.
The new Caftle is fituated onthe South Weft Side of
the Town. It was builtby Muley Archy, is fquare fank’d, |
with good Towers, and has Battlements like the Walls of
the Town. There i isa Communication from one Caftle
tothe other by a high Wall, flanked with two Towers,
how
and built upon Arches, under which the People pafs, whea
they go to walk upon the Strand. ‘There are in this
Cattle twelve Pieces of Brafs Cannon. Onthe Welt
Side, before the Breach in the Town Wall, on the Edge ©
of the Sea, flands another Baftion ona Rock, but neg-
lected of late, which renders the taking this Part of Sa/lee
_ very eafy. The chief Riches of this Place confift in its
Piracies, the Sal/ee Rovers being the moft expert and da-
ring of any on the Barbary Coait.
* Mequinez ftands about twelves Leagues Weftward
of Fez, and wasof {mall Note before the Emperor chofe
to
q a2 7
and which are, at the Difcretion of the People, re=
moved from one Place to another.
_ Av our Arrival to the City, or rather indeed
about a Mile before we reach’d it; we were com-
manded to get off our Beafts, and to take off our E£ng-
lifh Shoes, (that is to fay, fo many of us as had any)
and to put on yellow Pumps, which were brought to
us
to build his Palace there ; though according to Leo 4frica-
nus, it was about two hundred Years ago a Place of confi-
derable Trade and Kiches, but fince almoft ruined by the
Civil Wars, and different Sorts of Government that ob-
tained in the Country. It is fituated in a delightful Plain,
having a very ferene and clear Air, which made the im-
peror rather make it his Place of Refidence than Fex, and
now it is in a more flourifhing Condition than ever, being
the Metropolis of a large Empire, between two and three
Miles in Circumference, and containing about 300,cco
Inhabitants, furrounded by an ordinary Wall, and fepa-
rated by a Road fromthe Negro Town, fo called from the
Emperor’s Black Troops (on which he principally depends)
being quartered there: To which the Bafhaws and Alcaydes.
refort with the Tributes and refents, every two or three
Years, according to the Emperor’s Pleafure. In the Mid-
dle of the city ‘ive the Fews, having a Place ts ihem--
felves, the Gates of which are locked at Night, which
“Privilege they alfo have in moft of the Cities of this Em-
peror’s Dominions. ‘Fhey have an Alcayde to guard
their Gates, and protect them again{ft the common Peo.
ple, who otherwife would plunder them ; for they live in
great Subjection, it being Death for them to curfe, or lift
up a tland againft the meaneft Mocr ; fo that the Boys
kick them about at their Pleafure, againit which they
have no other Remedy but to run away. They are
obliged to pull off their Shoes, whenever they pafs by a
Mo‘que, and to wear black Cloaths and Caps; nor are
they allowed the Ufe of Horfes.
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us by the Afvors for that Purpofe ; and at our En-
trance into the City, we were met and furrounded
by vaft‘Crouds of them, offering us the moft vile In-
fults, and they could fearce be reftrained from knock-
ing us on the Head ; and which Tf verily believe they
would certainly have done, had not the Emperor’s
Guards interpofed ; though even they could not, or
at leaft would not, hinder them from pulling our
Hair, and giving us many fevere Boxes, calling us
Caffer Billa Oarofole ; which fignified, in Englifh,
that we were Hereticks, and knew neither GOD
nor MAHOMET.
Azour Eight o’Clock we all got to the Empe-
ror’s Palace ; where, before we entered, we were
firft obliged to take off our Pumps, paffing bare
Foot in at a Gate called Bednam Sorelelg, or the Re-
negads’s Gate, a, Renegado * Spaniard being its
Keeper ; and thence through two other Gates, viz.
Bebliafhey, Benauma, or, as by others called, Bebfee-
Jello and Bebaurhafhyoub, which brought us into Dar-
reb Baffion, where Aduly Smine, or Ifpmael, the old
Emperor, was, who received us from the Hands of
the Salleeteens, giving Alahacam, inExchange for every
one of us 50 Ducats ; bur out of this was paid back
again one third, anda tenth as acuftomary Tribute 4)
and AZedune, the Admiral, for not fighting Delgarde-
noor, had the very extraordinary Favour beftowed
upon him of lofing his Head.
AND now are we ordered to be feparated as fol-
lows, wiz. myfelf, Richard Ferris, Fames Waller,
* A Renegado is one who has renounced the Chrifiiax
Haith, and turned Mahometan:
Thomas
4
fe
Thomas Newgent, and three other Boys taken ina
French Ship, fent to the Kubbabhiatin, or Place |
where the Taylors work, and the Armoury is kept, |
and where we were directly employed in cleaning the
Arms: All the Fore-Maft-Men, fave two, Eee
were wounded, were put to hard Labour; and the
Captains, with the two wounded Men, to the Spanifo
Convent; whence, after fome fhort Exemption,
they were put to hard Labour alfo ; and, after fome.
dttle Time, again exempted, and fent to the Houfe
ofone Mr. Ben Hattar, a Jew, ina Place called ’
the Fudaiary, he having procured this of the Empe-
ror; and, as every Thing relating to our Affairs
pafled through the Hands of him and_ his Agents, it
was, no Doubt, very much to his Advantage.
Arter fome Time, I was taken out of the Ar-_
moury, and given by the Emperor to Muley Spha,
one of his favourite Sons, (a fad Villain ) born of his
Wife Alloabenabiz, by whom he had in all ten Chil-
dren, viz. feven Sons and three Daughters. My Bu-—
finefs now, forfome Time, was torunfrom Morning
to Night after his Horfe’s Heels; during which he.
‘often prompted me to turn A4eor, and told me, /f -
J would, I fhould havea wery fine Horfe to ride on,
and I foould live like one of his beft efteemed Friends ;
To which I ufedto reply, That as that was the only
Command wherein 1 could not readily gratify him, 1
humbly hoped that he would be pleafed, of bis great
Goodnefs, to fufpend all future Thoughts that Way,
for that I was thoroughly refolved not to renounce
} my Cbrifiian Faith, be the Confequence what it
would: Then faid ea in a moft furious and haugh-
ty Manner, Prepare yourfelf for [uch Torture. as
Seal be inflicted om you, and the Nature of your
‘Obfiinacy
L eS
Obftinacy deferves : When I humbly entreating him
on my Knees, Not to det loofe bis Rage on a poor heip-
de/s innocent Creature; he, without making any fur-
ther Reply, committed me Prifoner to one of his
own Rooms, keeping me there feveral Months in
Trons, and every Day moft feverely baftinading me
with a Bull’s Pizzle, and furioufly fereaming, in the
Mosrifp Language, Shehed, Shehed ! Cunmoora, Cun»
moora! in £nglifh, turn Moor, turn Moor, by
holding up your Finger : Of which Cruelty my Un-
cle hearing, he came one Day, and with him one
Fobn Phillips, to {ce if it might be in their Power
to give me any Relief ; and which indeed was not,
although they very heartily endeavoured it, gaining
nothing by their fo very kind and Chriftian-like In-
tention, but many. fevere Blows by the Pizzle on
themfelves, and on me a more frequent Repetition of
them than before.
AND now is my accurfed Mafter {till more and
more enraged, and my ‘Tortures daily encreafing ;
infomuch, that had not my Uncle, and fome other
- good Chriftians through his Means, notwithftanding
his fo late il] Ufage and Repulfe, (even to the ex-.
tream Hazard of their Lives) privately conveyed me
fone few Ritrefhments | mut have inevitably pe-
sithed, my Prifon Allowance being nothing but
Bread and Water; fo that I was, through my fevere
fcourging, and fuch hard Fare, every Day in Expec-
tation of its being my laft and happy, no Doubt,
had I been, had it fo happened: I fhould certainly
then have dy’d a Martyr, and probably thereby
gained a glorious Crown in the Kingdom of Hra-
ven ; but the ALMiGHTy did not then fee it ft:
My ‘Lortures were now exceedingly encreafed, burn-
ia det ing
| . |
“me my Fleth off my Bones by Fire ; which the Ty- |
rant did, by frequent Repetitions, after a moft cruel _
Manner ; infomuch, that through my fo very acute
Pains, I was at Jaft conftrained to fubmit, calling
upon God te forgive me, who knows that I never
gave the Confent of the Heart, though I feemingly
yielded, by holding up my Finger ; and that I always
abominated them, and their accurfed Principle of
Mahometifm, my only Truft and Confidence being
firmly fixed on Him, and in the All-fufficient Merits
of his.only Son Jesus CuristT, my Saviour.
T was kept forty Days longer in Prifon, on my re-
fufing to put onthe Moorz/> Habit; but I at length
reflected, That to refufe this any longer, was a very
foolifh Obfinacy, fince it was a Thing indifferent in
éts own Nature, Jeeing I had already been compelled to
give my Affent to Mahometifm ; therefore, rather
than undergo frefh Torments, I alfo complied with it,
appearing like a Mahometan ; and I make no Doubt
but fome itl-natured People think me fo even to this —
Day I pray God to forgive them, and that it may
never be their Mifhap to undergo the like Trials ;
and which, if it fhould, that they may maintain their
Chriftian Faith no worfe than I did mine.
- I was now delivered once more from my Prifon
and Chains ; and, at the Command ofthe Emperor,
put to School, to learn the ALcorifh Language,
and to write Arabick ; and in the latter I fhould
have certainly been a tolerable Proficient, had not
my Mafter’s Infolence, and violent Death by ‘the
_ Emperor’s Orders, prevented it; for after being
with him about three Menths, during which he had
often called me Chriffian Dog, and moft feverely —
beat me, it coming to the Emperor’s Ears, he
Was
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was by his Order inftantly difpatched, by toffing. hint
up, and fo breaking his Neck.*
AFTER this, I was put no more to School to’
| fearn the Language, but immediately into the Hinds
of Embhamenet Sageer, whofe Bufinefs was to train up
and inftruct Youth how they fhould {peak and be~
have before the Emperor, and in the War 3; he ha-
ving for fuch Purpofes under his Care about fix-hun-
dred Boys; and with whom I had not been above a.
Fortnight, before I had the Charge of eighty of
them committed to me, I being ede Bnei: Alcaydey,
or Captain, to fee they kept clean the Walks (during
all Intervals from Exercife} in the Emperor’s Gar-
den, where he and his Favourite Queen i ‘lem
Hazxexis (in Englifp the Beloved) were ufed. 3
walk ;..and in which Station [ had not been but a.
very little Time, when the Queen coming one Day
into the Walks, before I had the Power to hide my-
felf in a little Houfe fet there for that Purpofe, (and
which, at her Approach, we were commanded al-
ways todo) happened to fee me, andthe next Day. ~
bege” d me ofthe Emperor, which he readily erant=
ing, ordered us immediately out one by one, tillihe
fhould fee the fame Perfon ; and after the firft, fe-
fond and third were prefented, and turned back a»
fain, he ordered their Captain to appear, w when [
dnitantly appeared, and the Queen faying | was the
fame fhe would have, I was forthwith given her,
and by her again to her Favourite Son Muly Zidin,
zx Youth of Aboist. eight Years of Age, and then’ re-
fident with his Mother in the Palace of Sherrers
where fhe, with thirty-eight of the Emperor’s Con=
B
cubines,:
_ * This isa Punithment ufed by the Mbors, and different
from any made Ufe of in Europe: The Method of doing
it will be defcribed in another Place..
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eubines, and feveral Eunuchs, were clofely fhut up;
and to which I was made chief Porter of the inner-
moft Door, that is to fay, of the Door next without |
that of the Entrance into the Galleries leading to the
feveral Apartments, and where none could gain Ad-
mittance, but through me ; as indeed mone were to
be admitted, the Emperor only excepted, nor him |
neither, in cafe he fhould offer to come, without gi~
ving Notice, at an unfeafonable Hour ; as once indeed
he did, and though he had gained Admittance in at
the feveral outer Doors, yet was he by me denied ;
for how could [ cell it was him, when he was on the
one Side, and I on the other, of a thick Door clofe
fhut ; and allowing, as by his being let in at the fe-
veral outer Doors, and his ufual Way of knocking,
I might have very little Reafon to doubt it, and
which might hkewile have induced me to open it,
yet, what did that fignify to me, when [ had. pofi-
tive Orders before (as no Doubt had all the reft) to
admit none after fuch an Hour, without being before
advifed of it, and of fome certain Signs to be given’
accordingly on the Out-fide of the Door; and fur-
ther, my Orders were, that in cafe any one fhould
attempt to enter at fuch an unfeafonable Hour, and
not immediately depart after his firft and fecond
knocking, and Denials of Entrance, but fhould pre-’
fume to knock a third Time, without giving the
Signs as aforefaid, — fhould then fire through the
Door ; as indeed [ had now an Occafion to do.
‘Fue Emperor being admitted as aforemention’d in
at the feveral outer Doors, and knocking at mine, I
demanded aloud, 7/50 was there 2 To which I was
anfwered, Afuly Smine and which indeed by his
Voice, and ufual Way of knocking, I was pretty
well aflured it was: However, I told him, sat I
very
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wery much doubted it 3 for that I hed never known his
Excellency to come at fuch an unfeafonable Hour, with=
out my being preadvifed thereof 5 and which, as I then
was not, he foould at his Peril be gone, or I
would prefent him-wiih half a Dozen Bullets through
the Deer; which he pray’d me.not to do, for that
it was actually himfelf, and thatif IT would not Jet
him in, he would certainly chop off my Head the ,
next Day, knocking again louder than before 5 but,
on the. contrary, 1f | would admit him, he would:
give me fucha fine Horfe, (calling him by his Name).
with all the rich Furniture belonging to him, and:
‘would make meagreat Man. Itold him, J wau/d'
not do it, if he weuld give me allthe Horfes and Fur-
niture in the Empire; for that as I was entrufted and »
gommanded by the renowned *Muly Smine or Ifmael,.
the moft glorious Emperor in the World, to keep that
Poft inviolable againff all Impoftors and Intruders
wwhomfoever, andas I bad but too much Reafon to be-
lieve him fuch, F would not on any Terms open the
Door, be the Confequence what it would, being tho-
roughly refalved not to betray my Truft ; therefore it
was in vain for him any longer to perfift: When he:
“ebanging his» Note from Rewards to Threats, and’
knocking again, I fired all the Bullets which I had
ready by me in a Blunderbufs, quite through the
Door ; which indeed (he keeping himfelf clofe on
ene Side, as I before imagined) could inno wife
hurt him ;. and on his feeing my fo refolute Refif-
tance, and no Likelihood of his Admittance, he re-
turned as he came, highly threatening me for keep-
ing him out, and as much commending thofe at the
feveral outer Doors for their fo readily letting him
in, affuring us, that we fhould on neither Side lofe our
Reward; and indeed we did not, being very early
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in the Morning all ordered out, and all thofe whe
gave hun Admittance had fome their Heads cut off, |
others cruelly ufed 5 and myfelf, after being highly |
commended for my Fidelity, rewarded with a much |
finer Horfe than that he offered to give me in cafe £
would betray my Truft,
* ‘Turs Palace of Sherrers is a very large {paci- |
ous Building, (as indeed are all the Emperors’s
Houfes) and certainly prodigious trong, the Walls
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* This Palace is very fully defcribed by a Gentleman
who attended the Embaffy of Commodore Stewart ; whe
was, by the Empercr’s Command, conduéted through all
the Parts of it, as follows:
This Palace is about feur Miles in Circumference and
ftands upon even Ground, ia Form almoift f{quare, and ne
Hill near to overlook it.. It is butl of a rich Mortar,
without either Brick or Stone, except for Pillars and
Arches, andthe Mortar fo well wrought, that the Walls
are like one entire Piece of Terrafs. The whole Build:
ing is exceeding mafly, and the Walls in every Part very
thick, the outward: one is about a Mile long, and twenty
five Feet thick. ;
The Infide of the beft Part of the Palace confifls of
divers Oblong Squares, a great deal bigger than Linco:n’s
Tan Fidlds, having Piazzas allround ; fome of the Squares
are chequered throughout the whole Space, others have
Gardens in the Middle, that are funk very deep and
planted round with tall.Cyprefs Trees, the Fops of which.
appearing above the Rails, make a: beautiful Proipett of
Palace and Gardens intermix’d.
There are likewife difperfed throughout the Palace, fe-
veral Buildings which they call Cosahs ;. they are built
fquare, with plain Wallis on the Out-fide, except the
Front, which. confifs of Piazzas of five or fix Arches ¢
abe lnfide is one: very large and lefty Room or Hall che-
quered
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twelve Feet thick, and five Stories high, built only
of fine Farth and hot Lime mixed and well incor=
porated by a vaft Number of Slaves kept for that
Purpofe ; for it is thrown, as I may fay, into a
Mould, being frft boarded up toa ‘Truth on each
Side, fo that being very well ramm/’d together, it be-
COMES
qjuered at Bottom, and the Sides, almoft the Height of a
Man, the Tep or Dome curioufly painted, and richly gilt.
The Roof is covered with green Tiles, and rifes likea Py~
ramid. : |
It is reported that 30,000 Men,.and 40,000 Mules, were
employed every Day in the building of this Palace, which
is not at all improbable, feeing that it is built of hardly
any Thing elle but Lime, and every Wall worked with
exceflive Labour..
The Nature of the Building is convenient for the hot
Climate, being moftiy Ground Rooms ; by Reafon of
which, and the great Thicknefs of the Walls, the Lodg-
ings are very cooland refrefhing, when the Weather ig
excefive hot..
We were firft led into a large Oblong Square Building, ©
with Piazzas all round, being the Queen of the X:riph’s
Apartment. The Arches were wrought with Plaifter Fret-_
work in: Flowers, after the drabian Manner, and fupported:
by neat Stone Pillars ; the Square exceeding large and
fpacious ; the Bottom and Sides, for about five Feet high,.
chequered with fmall Tiles of divers Colours, about two:
Inches fquare : Of which {mall Chequer work there is a
prodigious Quantity in the Palace. All the Apartments,.
Walks, Magazines, Paflages, and-underneath the Arches,.
being chequered, making the Profpe& of the Buildings;
which are all of a great Length, extreamly magnificent,
beautiful and neat. From thence we were led into a Ma-
gazine near a Quarter of a Mile long, and not above
thirty Feet broad; in it there hung up great Quantities of
Arms in Cafes, andthree Rows of Rails, which were co-
--yered with Saddles, almoft from one End to:the other :
bxzE And
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€omes, ina very little Time, harder and more du- |
fable than Stone : It is covered on the Top with
blue Tiles, cieled in the Infide, and finely painted,
and hath in it feveral hundred feparate Apartments |
for his Concubines and Eunuchs, befides thofe fet
apart for his Favourite Queen and her Retinue: All
his
Aind ir fach another Magazine they thew’d us the Gates
cf Larach, which the Emperor took from the Spandards,
agreat dealof fron. work, fome Efpadas, and other Chrif-
tian Swords, drought from thence. |
Then we were carried into another large and {pacious
Building, with Piaazas all round like the former. In this
live two of the Emperor’s Wives, who are dittinguithed:
By being called the Queens of the Gobah’lhetrah, (which
is the Nameof that Part of the Palace they live im) and:
are in great Eftleem. with him.
From thence, pafling through fome neat long Walks;
and Pafiages of Chequer-work, we came to another
Building, with a large Garden in the Middle. planted.
round with tall Cyprefs Trees ; the Garden is funk about
fixty or feventy Feet lower than the Foundation of the
Building ; over which, from one Side to the other, goes a
Terrafs walk, called by the Moors the Strangee, which is
about half a Mile long, and fifteen or fixteen Feet broad ;
the Fop of it all the Way thick fhaded with Vines and
other Greens, fupported with {trong and wel] made wooden
Works. In this Walk there was a Chariot that goes wiih
Springs, and a fmall Calath,.in which they told us the Em-
peror is fometimes drawn by Women and. Eunuchs.
The jth we were fent for again to fee the Palace, where
arriving about Nine of the Clock, we were firft led to
fome large Rooms, full of Men and Boys at Work; they
were making Saddles, Stocks for Guns, Scabbards for
Scimiters, and other Things; upon Sight of us, they
all fell a working together, which made an agreeable
Sound, and fhewd that Induftry was in great Perfection
- inthe Emperor’s Palace. From thence we went through
divers
a a
his other Wives (in Number no lefs than Four
Thoufand) * being clofely fhut up in feveral other
fumptuous Houfes allotted for them ; though all, as I
may fay, adjacent and all withim the fame Inclo-
fure.
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divers large and neat Buildings, now and then pafling
Gates guarded by Eunuchs, who beat away all but thofe.
who were to conduct us. We pafled by a Garden funk.
very deep, having a great deal of Clover in: it, forthe
Horfes of the Palace’; the Building on the Side, and ae
one End, was fupported with neat Piazzas ;. the Rails to
look over into the Garden were finely wrought, with Steps _
to go up to them which were chequered, as were the
_ Walks between them andthe Arches, and underneath the:
Arches. .
Having paffed this Building, we came ta the moft in-
ward and beautiful Part of the Palace, which alfo has a
Garden in the Middle, planted round with Cyprefs and
other Trees: All the Pillars of this Building (which is of
a vait Length) are of Marbie, and the Arches and Doors-
of the Apartments were finely work’d. Thefe, they fay,
were ancient Komam Pillars, tranfposved thither from Sadlee.
* Tris related that this Emperor had in all‘no lefs thaw
Eight Thoufand Wives, by whom he had Nine Hundred.
Sons, and about Three Hundred Daughters. This prodi-
gious Number of Children might pafs for a Fable, was
there not acertain Proof of it, wz. the Regifter of a par-
ticular Tax which this Prince laid upon the Feaws, to be paid
by way of Prefent on the Birth of every one of his Chil-
dren, viz. A Pair of Gold Pendants, or Ear Bobs, a Pearl,
and two thin Plates of Gold, on which were engraved fome
Withes or Prayers in Favour of the Child and its Mother.
The Value of this Prefent amounied to about Fifteen
Pounds, for a Son : That which they were obligedto make
onthe Birth of a Daughter, was not fo confiderable, the
Ear Bob, being only of Silver, and the two Plates of the
fame Metal, and ne Pearl.
Np NO res
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My’ Lodging was between the inner Door before
Mentioned and that of the Entrance into the Galle-.
ries, leading to the feveral Apartments:; my Com-
panions fix Boys, and two young Lions about half’
grown, being reared up there from Whelps; but. be-
coming unruly, their Removal was defired, and com-
plied with..
Now am [, after my hard ACecnitigy again be-
eome in pretty good Plight, being allowed very good:
Eatables, as Becf,. Mutton; and Cu fkaffooe, (of the
Nature of which I fhall fpeak by and by,) 1 having
in a Manner now nothing clfe to do than to eat my
‘Meat, and be careful of my young. Matter’s and. the
Quieen’s Motions, ant efpecially thofe’of the latter,
who I found was about to cut me out fome new
Work ; fo that I was oblig’d to walk like one
walking on the Brink of a dangerous Precipice ;
whence, fhould he happen to make but the leaft
wry Step, he is fure to tumble down. and break his
Neck. The Queen in fhort being extreamly amo-
yous, and the Emperor no lefs jealous of her, which
really made my Condition very dangerous, and’
might, through fome unforefeen Accident, (let my
Behaviour be never fo innocent,) happen to prove
ef very bad Confequence to me, therefore I thought
it highly prudent to keep a very {tri Guard. upon
all my Actions,
I now was ftri@ly charged by the Emperor, on
Pain of lofing my Life, to vifitmy Uncle every
Day, he faying to me, in a loud and vehement
Tone, Caffam biila illamattim Shea Culfoab Ccculaf-
hea bus ede Ameck Woolaftan cuttaroffick, that is, If
soit don’t go every Day Morning and Evening, to kifs
your
eee ey aE Seat an «I
a . ¥e
your Unele’s Hand, by G--d [ll cut your Head off 3
for if he were a Brute, fays he, you are by Nature e-
bliged fo ta de. : |
Tus, any one may fuppofe, as being the only
Command my prefent Inclinations could be beit
gratified with, did not at all terrify me, and there~
fore I forthwith moft chearfully put it in Practice 5
but alas! that Pleafure was of a very fhort Duration,
he being, poor Man, ina few Weeks after taken off
by a violent Flux, as were a little before him Briant
Clark, Thomas Crimes, and Fobu Dunnal, three of
our unhappy Men ; and I fhall never forget my Un-
cle’s tender Behaviour at the Interment of the latter,
where I-and a great many other Englifomen happen’d
to be. The Corpfe being brought to the Grave,
and no particular Perfon appointed to read the Chrif-
tian Ceremony of Burial, my Uncle took it upon
him, but indeed he was not able (through the Abun-
dance of Tears flowing) to go through it, his Speech
being thereby to that Degree obftructed, that he
could only now and then utter a Word imperfectly ;
infomuch, that he was obliged to deliver over the
Book to another ; and never did I fee fuch a mourn= .
ful Meeting, every one catching the Contagion, and.
all ftanding for a confiderable Time in a dead Silence, _
quite overwhelmed with Grief,
Me
I am now to expect no further Comfort by way of
my poor Uncle; and though indeed I might not.
probably ftand in fo much Need of him as formerly
‘Thad done, yet was it the foref Affliction I ever
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‘met with, and I could never put the serene 4
“of him out-of my T eee
| Now ‘itis my chief Bufinefs and greateft Concern
‘to ftudy how to oblize the Emperor, his dear Hel.
lena, and my young Matter ; ; but the latter I confefg
TI did not oie mind, though -he was by Nature
cruel enough, and I iad feen him, even in the fe-
venth year of his Age, “kill his pivounne Black with
his own Hand, by ftabbing him into the Belly with a
Knife, and only for coming very-accidentally where
he was feeding a Pair of Pide. cons, and their flyine:
away fora few Minutes ; yet, Tfay, I did not much
mind him, as having much higher Obje@s to ob-
ferve, the Queen being in a parti icular Maniiter kind,
and often réconimending me to the Emperor’s good
Liking as a careful and ditigent Servant, and as in
deed I really was, fo far as i thought might be con-
‘fiftent with my Advantage and Safety : But I think-
ing this Service very precarious, and that T was every
“Moment expolfed, and in Danger of her Poifon, or
his Sword, I porbly intreated her to defire the Em-
peror to find out for me fome other Employment,
wherein I might be lefs fufpeéted, and not altogether
out of the Way of obliging her; which fhe readily
complied with, [being directly ordered by the Em-
peror to quit this dangerous Office, and to wait on
him at his Palace for f.ch pe Commands as
“fhould be by him enjoined me: A fudden and plea-
fing Alteration in deed ; and though my new ‘Bufinefs
mis ht be attended wile more Mafculine Exercifes,
yet was 7 well fatisfied that it could not be with more
Danger and Uneafinefs ; of which I was very foan
coniil med, I being ftrictiy charged to be obfervant
on
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of the Emperor’s Commands only, and to wait o#
him on all Occafions ; and when he pleafed to -ride
out, I was generally mounted on the fine Horfe he
gave me for my Fidelity in maintaining my Poft-at
the Door, always carrying at my Girdle a Club of
about three Feet long, of Brazile Wood, with
which he ufed, on any fight Occafion, to ee
People on the Head, as I had feveral Times the Plea-
fure of beholding ; for in fhort (although I did not
know how foon it might have been my own Fate) I
did not care how foon they were all dead ; and indeed
“he was of fo fickle, cruel, and fanguine a Nature,
that none-could be even for one Hour fecure of Life :
He had many difpatched, by having their Heads cut
of, or by being ftrangled, others by Toffing, for
as he had feveral very dexterous Executioners
always ready at Hand; but fcarce would he, on
Bite Occafions, afford a-verbal Command, he think-
ing that too mean, and his Words of more Value than
' the Life of the belt of them, generally giving it by
Signs or Motions of his Head and Hand ; as for In-
flance, when he would have any Perfon’s Headcut off
_ by diawihe or fhrinking his own as clofe as he could
to his Sh oulders, and then’with avery quick or fud-
den Motion extending it; and when he would have
any ftrangled, by the “quick Turn of his Arm-wrilt,
his Eye being fixed on the Victims.
The Punifhment of Tolling is a very particular one,
and peiheay to the Meors. |
Tue Perfon whom the Emperor orders to be
_ thus punithed, is feized upon by three or four ftrong
Negroes who taking hold of his Hams, throw his
3 aie Bi up
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up with all their Strength, pre at the fame “ieee |
turning him round, pitch Les down Head foremoft ; ||
at which they are fo dexterous by long Ufe, that |
they can either break his Neck the firft Tofs, diflo-
cate his Shoulder, or let him fall with lefs Hurt 2°
They continue doing this as often as the Emperor
has ordered, fo that many Times they are kill’d upon
the Spot ; fometimes they come off with only be- —
ing feverely bruifed; and the Perfon that is tofs’d _
_ muft not ftir a Limb, if he is able, while the Em-
peror is in Sight, under Penalty of being toffed again,
but is forced to lie as if he was dead ; which, if he |
fhould really be, no Body dares bury the Body tilt
the Emperor has given Orders for it.
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Tue Emperor's Wrath is terrible, which the
Chriftians have often felt: One Day pafiing.by a high
Wall, on which they were at Work, and being af-
fronted that they did not keep Time in their Strokes, -
as he expects: they fhould, he made his Guards go_
up and throw them all off the Wal, breaking.
their Legs and Arms, and knocking them on the |
Head ina miferable Manner: Another Time he or-_
dered them to bury a Man alive, and beat him down
along with the Mortar inthe Wall. —
Nor is the Emperor lefs cruel to. the Moors,
.whom he’ll frequently command to be burnt, cruci-
fied, faw’d in two, or dragerd at a Mule’s Tail
through the Streets, til they are torn all to ie *
he
* Thefe moft fhocking Accounts of Cruelty appear ine
credible, as feeming too barbarous and inhuman for any
Maa
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The moft peleanias Death is to-die by his Hand,
for then they only lofe their Heads, have their eae
knock’. out, or are run through the Body, for which
Purpofe he always has his Launces ready, and is very
dexterous at ufing them, feldom letting. his Hand go
puts for Want of Practice,
In the Year 1721, during the Time that Com-.
modore Stewart was in Adorocco as Ambaflador from
England, toe Emperor difpatched, in the moft cruel
Manner, Lerbe Shott, a Man of one of the beft Fa-
milies in Barbary, being defcended from the old 4n-
dalufian Moors, and deferved the Efteem both of his:
own Countrymen, and of us, with whom he had
lived till the Time of his Imprifonment ; for he had
been a confiderable Time in Gibraltar, as a Pledge
from the Bafhaw to an Exglifh Merchant, for the
Payment of Money due for Goods he had fupplied.
the Bafhaw with. Part of the Crime laid to his:
Charge, was for going out of his Country, and
living i in C Paiiicddon: a confiderable Time, without
the Emperor’ s Knowledge, and having defiled him-
felf with Chriftian Women, and often been in Liquor:
‘He was alfo accufed of being an Unbeliever, and one .
of thofe who had invited the Spaniards to invade Bar-
bary.
Tuese Things being infinuated to the Emperor,
after the ufual Manner of that Court, (where every
pty has it in their Power to do Harm, but few to
C 3 do
Man to commit: yet the Truth of them is attefled bya
|Gentleman who attended on Commedore Stewart, when ~
he went Ambaffador there, and by feveral other credible
Perions, who have given an Accountofthem. =~
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do Good) brought this poor Manto his End ; for
early one Morning he was carried before the Em-+ |
-peror, who (nor allowing him any other Trial, but-|
giving Way to his Accufers, who faid, He was an
Unbeliever, and not fit to live) comman ded hin to be
faw’d in two ; upon which he was immediately Care
He to the Place of Execution, which is at one of
the Gates of the ‘Town, and there tied between two
Boards and faw’d in two, beginning at his Head and
going downwards, till his Body fell afunder, which:
muft have remained to have been eaten by the Dogsy
if the Emperer had not pardoned him ; an extrava-
gant Cuftom, to pardon a Man after he is dead ; but
unlefs he does fo, no Body dares bury the ach
“Fr was reported the next Day after, that the Em=
peror dreamt Shott had appeared to him, and atk’d
him, What he had done to deferve fuch Ufage ? tel-
Jing him, There weuld be a Time when GUD would
judge between them bath ; which gave thé Emperor
fo much Concern, that he fent to the Place of his
Execution for fome of the Duft his Blood was fpilt
on, with which he rubb’d himfelf all over as an
- Atonement for his Crime. k
My. Lodging was now on the Infide of the En-
trance into. the Palace Yard, where were feveral
Sheds fet up againft the Walls like Penthoufes,
though clofer, and well tiled over Head, very long,
and only juft wide enough for one Man to lie at
Length; and here, I fay, I lodged, together with
the Emperor’s Guards, fo that I was always ready at
Hand, even ata Minute’s Warning, and whence I
" cared
f 3h}
dared not to ftir but at his Approach or Command,
we having at the appointed Times our | Meat broughs
us ; and for our Dinner we feldom failed of the
Moors Favourite Dith, Cufcaffooe, of which I jut
‘now promifed to give a further Account, I being re-
ally fo far ofthe Moors Opinion, as that I cannot
but in every Refpeé allow it truly deferving of. their
fo very high Efteem and Commendation, for it is:
actually very good, grateful,- and neue and is
prepared after “the: lea Manne Fir They.
pat fine Flour into a large wooden sca ; then they
pour thereon a_fi Bi Quantity of Water, and keep
continually fhaking the Bowl, till the Water is drank
up ; then they pour on more, and fo continue to
fhake the Bowl, till all the Flour is come into fimalt
- Pellets of about the Bignef&s of T Nutmegs 5 then they
are put out of the ae into another Utenfil like:
“a Cullender, which is made Ufe of for itraining the.
Water off Peafe, Beans, or any. Thing elfe of *
the like Nature; which being put over the Steam:
of a boiling Pot or Furnace. wherein are Eawls and
other Meat boiling, inthe Nature.of a Cover, and
another Cover on the Top of that: By. the Time the.
Meat is well boiled, fo are the Shot or. Pellétsy
(thoug h indeed they call it phe when they.
pour them’ out into a Dith, adding thereto good
Store of Butter, fome Salt, Spices, abe Saffron,
and then ferve up the Meat upon it. This, I fay, is
excellent Eating, and is no Doubt ufed by fome in
England, and other Countries, as a -Regalio ; and
was I of Ability fufficient, [fhould often regale my-
- felf with it. At their Meals, they never made. Ufe
of Knives, Forks, or Sons every one putting In
his Right Hand inftead of a Fork, and his frft two
Fingers thereof extended intend’ of a Spoon, all
C 4 feating
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feating themfelves in a Ring on the Floor, and the 4
Meat in the Middle ; and in Cafe any one, though |
unconcerned in this Mefs, pafied by whilft they
were at it, and did not put in his Fingers and eat with
them, he was accounted a very unmannerly Fellows
all the Company calling him Cault/nab, which was
as much as to fay, without Breeding or Manners,
though indeed they were not often guilty of this ib
ivMianners ; for my Part, I could readily have excufed
them if they had. : :
Tris Cufcaffee of the Emperor’s, as being to
feed about Nine Hundred Men, was brought out into:
the Court in a Cart upon Wheels ; when dividing
ourfelves into feveral Companies of about Seventy or
Eighty in a Company, we had all our Meffes ferved
out from the Cart in large Bowls, and fet in the
Middlé of us on the Floor, as before- mentioned).
- fitting as clofe round it as poffible we could ; though |
{cannot fay we had Fowls, yet we did not want, in
Lieu thereof, for good Store of Beef and Mut-.
ton; and which, inftead of decently cutting, we
with our Hands hawled to Picces,* two pulling
one againft another ; and any one firft taking hold
on
#* Tt may be imag’ned that this uncouth Way of pulling
the Meat to Pieces with their Hands, was only in Practice
seeat the Soldiery and lower Sort of People ; 3 however, —
it is really the conftant Cuftom of the better Sort too; for
a Gentleman who attended’on the Embafly of Commo- |
dore Steavart, when he went to redeem the Britif> Cap-
tives in the Year 1721, gives the following Account of
their Manner of eating in general ;
| When
| [as |
ona Piece of Meat, and another, his next Neighbour,
not taking {peedy hold alfo on the fame Piece, it was
accounted brutifh; for as they are allowed at their
Meals the Ufe only of their Right Hands, therefore
if any Man is not fo ailifted by his Neighbour,
whereby he may the eafier fepirate it, it is reckoned
the greateft Injury that can be offered them ; and
it is really a very dangerous Way of eating, efpecially
when People are very hungry 3 therefore they are
| , generally
When any of the Moors have a Mind to entertain their —
Neighbours, the Women. go to the-Top of. the Houfe,
and. continue there till the Guelts are gone : Their general
Entertainment is with Cu/caffoe, (whith we have before
defcribed: They make Ufe neither of Tables nor Chairs
but fit crofs-lega’d upon the Ground, putting their Dithes
upon a large Piece of greafy Leather, which ferves both
for Table and Table cloth; their Difhes are eithérof
Pewter or Earthen Ware, made wide at Top and- narrow
at Bottom, almolt hke a high crown'd Hat tarned Bot-
tom upwards. While they eat, a Servant ftlands by with
a great Bowl of Water in one Hand, and a narrow long
Piece of blue Linen inthe other, to wipe their Right
‘Hands, with which they pull the Vittuals to Pieces, be-
ing for the moft Part ftew’dto Rags. They never ufe
their Left Hand in eating, for that waits wholly on their
~neceflary (ccafions: They fill their Sellies without {peak-
ing to one another, and after Meals drink Water, their
Religion forbidding them Wine, and all other intoxicating
Liquors, except Cyder ; neverthelefs, moft of them will |
getdronk with frong Liquor of any Kind, if they can
“€omeat it. Their chief Deflertis Butter-milk, of which
_ they are fuch Lovers, that when they would {peak of the
extraordinary Sweethels of any Thing, they compare it»
to Butter Milk; a great black Pitcher of it is generally
brought in, with a wooden Ladle, which is prefented to:
>the mott confiderable Perfon, and from him paffes round.
the Company jeveral ‘Times.
Ber
5 ae
§ QA ed at +
uae a ae
generally attended, during that Time, by feveral
Perfons with Clubs i in their Hands, in cafe any fhould
by Chance fwallow a Piece too large for their Gul+
letsy and it fitould ftick- therein ; which, through
their Grredinefs, often happened, and en Oe:
thofe Attendants gave the Party a very hearty Blow
with his Cadgel i in the Neck, by which Means. it
was generally difeharged either up or down 3 and in
cafe it was not, then they repeated the Blow till it
was. ‘This did I often fee, and have been as often’
diverted with it,
Azour this Time came Commodore Stewart,
Ambafiador to Mequinez, with full Powers from his
Royal Mafter to treat with the Emperor for the’ fo
long defired: Redemption of the poor Engilif> Cap-
tives.
Here it will not be ami to defcribe the exceed-
ing Weight of Mifery which our Fellow Country-
men undergo, who are fo unhappy as to be made
Slaves in Moraccos
‘Tue fevereft Labour and Hardfhips infli&ed on
MalefaGtors in Eurcpe, ate Lenity and Indulgence,
compared to what many nae Perfons undergo in
this modern A gypt 5 even Slavery at Trinity or
Algiers, is a State of Repofe and Felicity, to that
in the Aorocea Dominions. At Day-break, the
Guardians of the feveral Dungeons, where the
Chriftian Slaves are fhut up at Night, rouze them
With Ciirfes and Blows to their Work,. which here —
Is
ee np
is not repairing or rigging of Ships, but more labo»
rious, as it confifts in providing Matertals for the Em-
peror’s extravagant Buildings, flamping Earth mix’d
with Lime and Water, in a wooden Box near three
Yards long, and three Feet deep, and of the intended.
Breadth of the Wall, their Inftrument for this is a
heavy wooden Stamper. Cthers prepare and mix
the Earth, or dig in Quarries for Lime Stones ; o-
thers a them. Some are employed to carry large’
Bafkets of Earth ; fome drive Waggons drawa by
fix Bulls and two Horfes ; and after the Toil of the
Day, thefe miferable Carters watch their Cattle in.
the Field at Night, and in all Weathers, as their
Life muft anfwer for any Accident. The Tafk of
many is to faw, cut, cement, and ere€&t Marble Pil-
‘Yars, and of fach who are found qualified, to make
Gunpowder and Small Arms; yet does not their
Skill-procure them any better Treatment than thofe,
~ who having only the Ufe of their Limbs without
any Ingenuity, are fet to the coarfeft Works, as
tending Horfes, fweeping Stables, carrying Burthensy
grinding with Hand Mills. Some have alfo in
Charge to manage the Water Works, and infpect
the Aquedudts. “In all thefe fo different Depart-
ments, the Ignorant and Artift are upon a Level,
very few Inftances excepted; they have all their
refpeive Guardians, Tafk- Mafters, and Drivers,
who immediately Sue the leaft Stop or Inadver-
tency, and often will not allow the poor Creatures’
Time to eat their Bread-; but like Nehbemiah’s Men,
they muft work with one Hand, whilft they put their
coarfe. Morfei of Bread into their Mouths with the’
other. After fuch a wearifome Day, it frequently
happens they are hurried away to fome filthy Work |
in the Night-Time, with this Call, Vainas a trava=
| 6ho
» Rls
ae ae
travacho cornutos, i.e. Out to Work you Cuckalds, an
Appellation of the bittereft Reproach among the’
Meers, except Thou Son of a Chriftian. But a
Circumftance more affecting than all thefe Rigours,
is, that Men created in the Image of God, have been,
harneffed in Carts with Mules and Affes. Their’
Lodgings in the Night are fubterraneous ‘Dun-
geons, round, and about five Fathom Diameter,
and three Deep, going down by a Ladder of Ropes,
which is afterwards drawn up,-and an Iron Grate
fattened over the Mouth ; and here they lay upon —
Matts. Neither has their Fare any Thing more ©
comfortable in it, confifting only of a fmall Platter
of black Barley Meal, with a Pittance of Oil per —
“Day. This Semninel has put feveral upon |
hazarding a Leap from very high Walls only to_
get a few wild Onions that grow in the Adzors
Burying-Place. The Slaves ufual Habit is a long
coarfe Woollen Coat with a Hood, which ferves for
a Cap, Shirt, Coat, and Bievchies: and four Pair of
_ Pumps fora Year and half, though Lime and Mor-
tar, and their daily hard Work, wears them off their
Feet inhalf the Time. It is moderately computed,
that many hundred Chriffian Slaves ‘have been fud-
denly killed by A/uley [/bmael, and other Emperors»
_merely out of Wantonnefs, and fometimes finding
Fault with their Difpatch, or Manner of working,
of which they could have no competent Idea. If it
be accounted an Honour to be the Sovereign’s ‘Slave,
like fome others, it is very burthenfome, for they
are not only h harder worked when in Health, than
thofe of private Perfons, but much more neglected
in Sicknefs ; though of the Care beftowed on the
Jatter, it may with great fapere'y be faid, That the
Remedy
te 4 |
Remedy * ts worfe than the Difeafe. The only Allee
viation is, that the Slaves are allowed to make
Brandy, and the ews are taxed with the Materials ;
this ts owing toa Notion infufed into the Emperors,
that the Europeans would lofe all their Ingenuity and
Vigour, without now and then a Draught ot that
infpiring Liquor ;may that Notion ever obtain there
but Experience fhews us, that the frequent Ufe of
fpirituous Liquors, beth enervates and ftupifes. The
ae are extreamly cautious, and artful in purcha--
fing Slaves ;. and befides inviegling Queftions and
Cajolings, have many Methods and Tokens to judge
what Ranfoma Slave will yield, and accordingly
will. readily give fome hundred Pounds, where all
promifing Appearances occur; But where the greater
Ranfom is expeCted, the Ufage is the wdrfe. Thefe
exafperating Sufferings have often prompted the
Slaves to make fome Efforts for Li iberty, but they
have moftly terminated in Mifcarriages : Once a
large Dungedn_was undermined, and great Numbers
in a fair W ay to efcape ; but a Dutchman breaking
his Leg by a Fall, and crying out with the Anguifh,
they were retaken, and put to a torturing Death, for
_an Example.
ComMMopDoRE Stewart was conducted to Adeguie
Nez from Tetuan by Hamet Ben Ally, one of the Em-
peror ’s Bafhaws; in which Embafly, the Com-
modore being a very able, well accomplifhed cour-
teous, and indefatigable Gentleman, notwithitanding
his often meeting with very great Infults and mani-
feft Dangers, managed his Point fo well, that in fix
-Weeks, or thereabout, he procured the Enlargement
of all the Engli/b Slaves, (thofe under my unhappy
* The only Remedy apply’d, is burning different Parts
of the Body with a red hot iron.
ee Chea Cire
-
{ 38 J |
Circumftances only excepted) in Number Three
Hundred and one, releafing them from their long
Servitude and Chains, and conduéting them to Te-.
quan, where he found Shipping ready to tranfport
them to their fo long defired Homes, there being
then more than frx Years expired fince they were
firft made-Prifoners, that is to fay, thofe taken with |
oor unhappy me, who you may imagine could not.
‘be allowed to go with them, though I moft humbly
‘intreated it by all the Means I could devife, all my
Solicitations being in vain, fo that I was obliged to
‘content myfeif, to effeét my Deliverance by private
~Efcape, when Opportunity offered 5 to which End
the Ambaflador gave me very friendly Advice, toge-
ether with many other Marks of his Favour,
I might here fll up a great deal by Way of the
4everal Occurrences relating to the Ambaflador’s En-
trance, Behaviour, Ufage, and Return to Yetuan,
and, in fhort, many other Paflages of Moment, and
which 1 very particularly remember ; but as [ am
informed there 1s a Book of it already printed, I fhall
not go about in anywife, to interfere with it, Com-
anodore Stewart being a Gentleman of fo much good
-Obfervance, that mine might only prove to be a Re-
-cital of it, or at leaft a dull Tautology of the fame
‘Things ; though I cannot again help faying, and
which, no Doubt, in that Report is omitted, that
he in ‘every Point behaved in fo polite, moft Chrif-
tian-like, and Majeftick a Manner, as not to dero-
gate from, or lefien the Truft repofed in him by his _
Royal Mafter, whofe Perfon and Dignity he was |
to reprefent ; and which | hearuly wifh had been fo
‘well performed by a certain Gentleman fent to Ave=
quinez on the fame Errand about four Years before
Ahim ; then had at in all Likelihood prevented many
aking
|
’ ;
feo 4h
aking Hearts ; and my poor Uncle, with many other
a a a ne
poor ~Chriftian Slaves, (who, during that Interval,
Aicd there) had eee been {till alive.
As Mr. Pertow fpeaks fo much in Praife.of Come ,
amodore Stewart’s Embaffy, and as the Boook he
mentions is now out of Print, and very fcarce, we
have with great Difficulty procured one of them, ta
give our Readers the Pleafure of having Extraéis of
ibe moft entertaining and curious Particulars out of it 3 3
and we have the more readily dene it, as the Book ts
- curious, and has met with the Approbation and En-
_couragement of moft of the Nobility in the Kingdom 3
dt may likewife fer ve for a Lonfirmation of Mr. Per=
LOW’S Hiftor, Yo
IS Majefty having been pleafed to appoint the
Honourable Charles Stewart, E{g,; Comman-
der in-Chief ofa pnmes igh of Ships, to.cruize againft
the Sallee Rovers, and alfo Plenipotentiary to treat
of Peace with the Emperor of A~oreces, he failed
from England the 24th of September, 1720, and
arrived at Gibraltar the 20th of Odader follow-
ing, At which Time the Spaniards having form’d
an Expedition againft the Adoors, had already made
confiderable Embarkations to Ceuta, from their
Camp near the Bay of Gibraltar, The Ambafla-
dor thinking this a proper Jun@ture to begin his
Negotiation, on the 28th of Od?ober wrote the fol-
lowing. Letter to the Bafhaw of Zetuan.
"Vo
er ney aS ee ee eT oes
i @ TF
To his Excellency Bajhaw Hamet Ben Ally Ben |
Abdallah, &c.
“W™ HE King of Great Britain, my Mafter, ha-
4 ving thought fit to recall Mr. Cavendi/fh from
being Ambaflador to the moft Noble Prince, the
Emperor of Afcrecco, and having done me the
Honour to fend me Abroad to fucceed him, I
take the Liberty to acquaint your Excellency of |
my Arrival in thefe Parts, with full Powers te
treat of a Peace with your Excellency, or any
Perfon or Perfons his Imperial Majefty fhall ap-
point. And as the Srizi/h Nation is fenfible of
your great Ejfteem for them, and the Readinefs
which you have always fhewn towards a Friend-~
fhip, and Peace between the two Nations, (tho’
I don’t know whether by Deftiny, or Mifmanage-
ment, the fo long defired Peace has been retarded)
Tam ftill in Hopes your Excellency will continue
your great Zeal for the common Good of both
Nations, fince I am come with a firm Refolution
to employ my hearty and beft. Endeavours to-
wards that good Work, and the more becaufe
your Glory and Advantage are to be the Fruit of |
it. But it is neceflary that this Negociation fhould
“begin as foon as poffible, that [may be made fenfi-
ble of the Intention of his Imperial Majefty, whether
he will make Ufe of this Opportunity of fettling
that Peace and Friendfhip, which the King my ~
Mafter has fo long defired; for fince I am em-
ployed in another Command upon the Sea, which
_at this Time might be in Conjun@tion with the |
Enemies of the King your Mafter, now that they —
have invaded your Country, yet to fhew you
the Sincerity by which I defign to at; I thould ra-
“¢ ther
s
\
/
| oe
#€6 ther choofe that his Imperial Majefty would pre
vent any Accident that may happen, by fending
*© fuch Perfons to Gvbraltar, to treat with me as
*** foon as poffible, and put a finifhing Hand to a
+ ۩ Treaty fo long depending, and which has already
‘© been adjufted on both Sides, Provided this can
© be done, and the Articles of Peace confirmed, I
;** fhall then very readily in Perfon throw mytlf at
| © his Imperial Majefty’s Feet, to’ prefent a Letter
'* which I have now by me from the King my
&¢ Mafter, and fhall think myfelf happy, to put my-
€ felf under your ProteCtion for my Safety to A4-
1 & quinez. I commit your Excellency to the Pro-
1 tection of GOD, and am
| Your Excellency’s maft humble Servant
CHARLES STEWART.
°
¢ Tus Letter was-fentin the Experiment Man
© of War ; which, upon her Return, brought over
|§, Cardenafo> (who had been twice Ambaflador in
\€ England) to compliment Mr. Stewart on his Arri-
'* val, and alfoa Letter from the Bafhaw, figrifving
'€ the great Inclination he had to forward the Freaty
© with the Engit/h Nation ; for which Purpofe, Car-
© denajb was to confer with the Ambaflador, in order’
'§ to have it finifhed as foon as poffible. But the
' Ambaflador judg’d it more convenient to treat in
© the Bay of Tetuan, becaufe the Emperor had fent
'* from his Court one Adofes Ben Hattar, a Jewi/d
‘* Merchant, who had been often employed in the
‘© former Treaties, and was a Perfon more artful
‘© and interefted, than any other in the Country, and
‘« chiefly to be confidered, in Regard he had it more
‘© in his Power to make the Negociation fuccefsful,.
: or
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or defeat it as he had done that of others, . Upon
which Confideration the Ambaflador failed with
his Squadron to Tetuan Bay, December 22d, and
there, with the faid Afs/es Ben Hattar, (who
took upon him to be jointly, empower’d with the
Bafhaw) agreed to the Articles of Peace, which
Were fioned and exchanged the 17th of Fanuaryy
1720-21. After which the Ambaflador was. very.
Ayes importuned to proceed immediately to Ae-
| quinez ; but as it wasneceflary that his Majefly:
fhould firft approve of the Conditions, and the.
Ratification come to him from England, before he
landed in Barbary, he ~found Means to delay the
Time till he had | aecolnp lifhed his nee
© On Wednefday the 3d of May we cighartea: at
| Gibraltar, Ben Hattar going on board the Ambaf=
fador’s Ship, he having, after the Signing of the
Treaty, come over with him, and contmued
there, that he might accompany him at his landing
in HeraG We arrived in the Bay of Tetuan,
Saturday the 6th, and landed about Nine of the
Clock in the Morning, which being fooner. than
the Bafhaw expected, he was not come to the Wa-
ter-fide to receive the Ambaflador, but we found
a fuficient Number of Tents pitched for our Con-
veniency, and among them a fine large one, that
the Emperor had fent from A/eguznez, which the
Ambaffador made Choice of to eat in on his four
ney : Our firft Entertainment was in this Tent,
where act brought us Plenty of Cu/cafooe, Kowls,
and a Sheep roafted whole upon a great wooden
Spit, as thick as a Man’s Leg, which they put
upon the Table, Spit and all.- Between Three and
‘ Four
which they performed. with great Activity, the
Bafhaw and his Brothers often heading Parties of. -
Hlorfe, who altogether clapping their Spurs ta
their Horfes Sides, levelled their Pieces and fired
- at one another, as if they were attacking an Ene-
‘ my: After that, they took their Spears, and fing~
€ led each othér our to tile, very dexteroufly putting
« by the Thruft of the Spear, (though it was made
€ at their Backs)-while their Horfes were runnin;
‘ full Speed. During the Time of the Cavalcade,
€ the Foot kept a continual Fire, but irregular, every
Man charging his Piece, and firing into the Ground
| as faft as he could. . Their Drams made 4 very fo
‘© lemn and. warlike Sound, which are not beaten af-
‘© ter our Manner, but with: an heavy Stick on the
'¢ Top, anda finall one underneath, keeping Time
'€ to'a Pipe, fomething like a Fife, but very loud and
© fhrill. The Cavalcade being over, and Cardenafh
* bringing Word that the Bafhaw was coming, the
* Ambaflador went to meet him: The Baihaw ver
—Courteoully welcomed the Ambaffador to Barbaryy
_and invited him to his Tent, where he told him,
that he would do all that lay in his Power to make
the Country agreeable to him, that he liked the
Engl better than any other Chriftian Nation ;
and fome- more Compliments pafiing between
them, they parted. The Bathaw lay in the Camp
that Night. . |
D2 | © Sunday |
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¢ Sunday the yth the Ambafiador went to vifit.
the Bafhaw in his Tent, who renewed his kind.
Expreffions towards the Eaghp, and his Defire that:
the Ambafiador fhould find every Thing agree-
able to him. After that, as we were walking
about to fee the Camp, we had an Inftance of
Ben Hattar’s unlimited Power over the Sews 3
for he having employed one Ben Saphat as his A-
gent or Factor in Gibraltar, found, upon going
thither himfelf, that he had wronged him confi-.
derably, reported Things falfely, and dealt un-—
faithfully in his CGoiahiltien § ; ‘wherefore as Ben
Saphat was now coming down to meet him, before
he could get within Hearing Ben Hattar ordered.
him to be ftrangled ; upon which the Fews and:
fome Blacks belonging to the. Emperor, immedi-
ately ran to him, pull’d himoff his Mule, and in
an Inftant ftripp’d off his Cloaths, and whipp’d a
Rope about his Neck, which they began to draw 3
and in that Manner bringing him nearer to us,
pale and gafping, he cry 'd out to the Ambaffador:
to intercede for him: The Surprize of the Thing
-kept every Body filent, and in Sufpence what
- would be the Event; but after Ben Hattar had.
reviled and threatened him, he ordered that he
fhould be carried to Prifon, where (as we after-
wards vat he was daily baftonaded, as well for
the Fault he had committed, as to tha him dif
cover all his Effeéts, which ‘Bin Fiattar feized on.
for his own Ufe. | ey
t
© Asourt Elevenof the Clock, the Bafhaw cau-_
finga Row of fine Horfes to be drawn up toge- _
ther, (which made a a very noble and gallant Appear-
* ance, —
FAA A BA eAAHR HR A A AH EF A A A BA OB HH
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-ranee, many of their Saddles being covered all over
with Plate) defired the ‘Atribadtadat to take which
he liked beft; then every one of us providing for
ourfelyes according to our Fancy, we fet forward,
The Moors, for the moft Part of the Way to Te-
tuan, (which is about fix Miles) continued firing
and cavalcading ; after which Manner we entered:
>the Town, great Crouds of People fhouting and
hollowing ; the Women being, drefled in white:
Alhagues, and muffled up, fo that no Part could be
feen but their Eyes, were erouded upon the Tops:
of the Houfes as thick as they eould ftand : The
Bafhaw drew up his People in a large fquare Place:
‘before his Houfe, where he and his Brothers (be-
ing exceeding well mounted) fhew’d us again how
dexterous they were with their Spears, tilting a
confiderable Time, and fometimes darting their
Launces into the Air before them, and catching
them again as their Horfes ran full Speed ; then
the Ambaflador was conduct ed to the Houfe ap=
pointed for him, which was one of the beft in Ye-
tuan, and a Stable of Horfes ordered for the Ufe
of him and his Retinue,
‘ Tue 8th the Ambafflador went to fee the Ba-
fhaw at his Houfe, who received him in an out-
ward Room, or Hall, built long and -narrow, as.
moft of the Rooms in Barbary are; the Reafon
of which (I have been told) is becaufe of the
Scarcity of lofty Timber in the Country : There
were two Chairs placed oppofite to each other, in
which the Ambaflador and Bafhaw fat down, and.
talked together for about an Hour and an half, du-
ring which ‘Time eight or ten of the principal
© Moors.
e
€
&
4 ; “yee
Moors of the Town ftood behind the Bafhaw.
The Conference being over, we were fhewn the
Bafhaw’s Gardens, and Stables, in Which were a
© great many fine Horfes.
¢ Tue ssth-we dined in a Garden of the ree
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which being green and woody, every Way give a
mofk de Jightful Profpect : There runs a little
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We dined under a Locuft Tree that afforded a”
pretty good Shots The Governor of Tetuan
came juit after Dinner, and walking with us,
was fo complaifant as to gather and give us the beft
Fruits ; there were Aisi Oranges, Lemons, and
{mall Apricocks of a very good Flavour. The
Walks are feparated with Cane-work, and there is
an Arbour of the fame very well contrived, in
which there being a Bafon fupplied with Water
from the faid Stream, the Ambaflador fill’d it with
Punch, and with much ado perfuaded the Gover-
nor to drink two or three GI afles. Great Quan-
* tities of Carnations coming in through the Canes
‘work, and at the Windows, made the Arbour very
delightful. The Governor had his Mufick with
* him, which confifted of four Perfons ; two of
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‘them play’d upon fmall Inftruments, after the
Manner of Viclins ; one had a Piece of Parch-
ment drawn tight over a little broad Hoop, with
Pieces of loofe Tin on the Sides, which he fhonk |
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with one Hand, and drumm’d on if with the other $
another beat Time to their Mufick, by itriking
the Palms of his Hands together, very loud and
well. This Part of the Country abounds with fine
Oranges, Lemons, Citrons, Olives, Grapes, Figs,
Melons, Pomegranets, and: Apricockse |
¢ THE 20th we went a hunting the Wild Boar
with the Bafhaw, . the Mountains between Te;
tuan and Ceuta ; we killed fix, and took three ©
young ones alive ; oa Bafhaw broke his Spear irt
one of epee) : The Spears which the Foot carry.
for this Sport, difer from thofe of the Horfe, not
‘being above half fo long, and- made of a very
heavy and tough Wood, the pes about half a
Yard long, and very hk hat they fhould not
break againft the Hide of the Dus ‘Phere went
a great Number of Feot thus armed along with
us, who getting upon the Hills round about, made
fuch a hideous Noife ard Shouting, that they raifed
the Boars from the Weods -and Thiekets, and
brought them in View for the Chafe. If one.of
thefe Men fhould happen to-be near a Boar alone,
he muft-not give Way, nor thew any Signs of
Fear, but putting himfelf in as firm a Pofture as
he can, receives the Boar upon his Spear, who
soars himfelf upto the End of the Blade, where
there is an Iron goes acrofs, to ftop the Spear fronr
running through, otherwife the Boar preffing ony
would each the Maa, and wound him with his
Tufks : If the Man is not flrong enough te ftop
the Boar, he quits him as well-as he can ; but
fometimes (as 1 have feen them) they’ll hold the
Boar thus. goared on the Spas, ‘till the reft come
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- of the River of Yetwan, we experimented the Ef
» fect of the ‘Torpedo, or Num-fifh, fome of them
“lying inthe Mud; they were about the Bignefs
of al arge Plaife, and fhaped fomething like them, —
but thicker, and very round, fo that the Hea
could hardly be diftinguifhed fio the Body-; we
touched them with Con es or Sticks on Horfeback,
+ during which Time a Numnefs was perceived to:
go up our Arms, that continued a Minute or t WO»,
“after we had taken our Canes of the fith.
© THE Houfts of Tetuan (and their other Towns):
arevery good, but theStreetsexceeding narrow, and
hardly any Windows to be feen, but little Holes to:
look out at, the Light coming in at the infide of
the Houfes, where there’s a: {quare Court-yard,:
open at Top, with: Pillars fupporting Galleries, and
painted wooden Baluftrades round the infide of the
Hovfe, almoft like fome of our Inns. In_ the
‘Middlé of the Court-yard ‘there’s a Fountain, if
the Houfe belongs to a Perfon of any Contfidera-
tion: The Rooms are built long and-narrow, and.
are generally four on.a Floor, anfwering tothe.
Galleries, 4rom. whence opens into each Room a
large fold ding ‘Door, by which all the Light that
they have is let mm). The Houfes are buttwo Sto-
‘ries high, except ie Bathaw’ s, and fome few -
others belonging to particulas Men: They are flat —
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-great Way upon them ; but thofe belonging to
Chriftian Merchants fidve Battlements, to keep
them within the Bounds of their own Heufes ; for
the Adoori/> Women live in the upper Apartmentss
and often vifit oneanother from the Tops of their
Houfes Ph bey, are white-wafh’d on the outfide,
as well as within, which cafts the RefleCtion of the
Sun fo bright, that it hurt our Eyes to continue —
upon them in the Day-time. They raife not their
W alls as moft Nations do, by laying Brick or Stone
even upon one anotiver, but their Way is firft to
make a ftrong’ wooden Cale, into which they calt
the Mortar,‘ and beating it down hard, take the
Cate away when it is. dry.
‘ THe Town of Tetuaz is populous and healthy,
enjoying a very good Air, but the People poor, and
neXxt- kin to Slaves, ‘no Man poflefiing any Thing
bil at the Pléafure of the Bathaw, wh is” ‘Abfo-
Jute in his Province, as any Monarch whatfoever,
commanding over the Lives and Fortunes of his
People, giving or taking away Houfes, Land,
Horfes, or any Thing juft as he pleafes ; for mes
Reafon, when a poor Man has acquired Wealth
by Trade or Induftry, he endeavours to conceal it,
and feem poor; for if itfhould come to the Know-
ledge of the Bathaw, he would throw him into
Prifon, and caufe him to be baftonaded ard tor-
tured, to make him Pyke all that he has’ in the
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‘ ‘Tut Inhabitants are of a fwarthy Complexion,
intermixed with a Race of well-looking Men,
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_fomewhat fairer than the reft ; they generally are
lufty, ftrong-limb’d, and, I think, a little out-fize
‘the Lurepeans. ies are very sood Horfemen 3
active, hardy, laborious, and needy, fo that a
eateries will go on Foot from Tetuan to Megui-
2. (wl uch is 150 Miles) for a Barbary Ducat, and
perform his. Journey with great Expedition ; for
they are wonderfully patient of Labour, enduring
the Heat. of Summer and cold Rains of Winter
to Admiration ; And when the Ground is all co+
‘ vered with Rain, anda Storm over Head befides, -
they Il only look fora Bufh, or a great Stone, and.
undrefiing themfelves, fit down on_ their Cloaths,
with their Back towards it, and remain in that
Potture the whole Night 5 by which Means their
Cloaths are dry when the Rain is over ; other-
wife they wrap themfe.ves up in their Albornooce,
and pafs the Night upon the Grafs. Some of oF
moft famous Footmen of the Country (it is faid) will
co ixty Leagues in three Days. They fwim the
Rivers in the depth of Winter, if the Rapidity of
the Current doth not deter them, contriving to put
their Cloaths upon their Heads in fuch a Manner,
as to keep them free from the Water. Thefe Men.
are generally thin, eat but very little, and for feven
or cight Days Journey carry only a little Meal, and
a few Raifins or Figs in a fimall Goat’s Skin 3 bur
they often do no more than carry in a little Bag
fixed. about their Neck, as much Meal as they
think they fhall have Occaton for: When they
have a Mind to eat, they ftop near a Spring, or
River, dilute and temper a little of the Meal in he
Hollow of their Hand, and fo {wallow it down, at
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any Sort of Carriage upon Wheels; their light
Goods are removed from Place to Place upon
Horfes, if it be not very far; but when they have
oreat Quantities, either of Corn, Wax, Hides,
Tallow, @&e. and go far, they ufe Camels, of
which: there’s great Plenty. If an Alcayde has
Bufinefs with the Emperor, he fends a Gentleman
on Horfeback ; but the ordinary Way of fending
Letters, is by the aforefaid Footmen, who are very
near as expeditious as the Horfe. .
¢ Tse Moors Manner of drefling is not ungrace-
ful, which is as follows: The Men wear fhort Shirts,
with vety broad Sleeves, that fometimes hang
down, but are more frequently tucked up to their
Shoulders, to keep them cool , they have Linen
Drawers, which are ty’d abotit their Waftes next
the Skin, and reach to their Knees: They go bare
lege’d, and upon their Feet wear Shoes, or rather
Slippers, of red or yellow Leather, made very
light, without Heels: Over their Shirt they wear
a Cloth Vet, or. Waittcoat, of any Colour they
pleate ; ; this Vek i is fhort, aid made to fit clofe to
their Bodies ; it is faftened with fmall Buttons and
Loops fet very clofe together, which are oftem
wrought with Gold or Silver Thread : Round their
Watte they wear a Scarf of Silk or Stuff, as they
can afford, in which they ftick Jarge Knives,
whofe Handles they covet to be of fome coltly
Metal, or Ivory in-laid, and their Sheaths tipt with
Silver: Their outward Garment is either an Al-
hague, or an Albornooce ; the Alhague is a Piece
of very fine white woollen Stuff, five or fix Yards
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wrap round them) above and below their Arms,
and ae a Fioure not unlike what is feen in the
Drapery of Antique Figures. ‘The Albornooce is
either made of Ch th, or Woollen Stuff, a great
deal thicker wrought than the Alhague, and napt
it is made fomething hike a fhort Cloak, but joyn rd
a little Way befare from,the Neck downwards,:
having two or three Rows.of fhort Stripes work’d
in the. Stuff, and fringed at the Ends for Ornament;
the Bottom ‘and Sides : are edged with a deep Fringe:
Behind, at the Neck, there hangs a peaked Cawle,
with a Toflel at the End, which they can cover
their. Heads. with, to beep. off the Weather. Upon
their Heads (which are always kept fhaved) shivy
wear a little red ald rolling Muflin. abo ea to
make a Turbant : When they go into the Coun-
try, they wear a handfome Cane Hat to keep off
the Sun.
© Aut the Afocors sare drefied after this Manner,
there being no Diierence but in’ the Richnefs of:
their Vefts, or Finenefs of their Albagues ; only the:
‘pooreft Sort of all have. another Garment called
a Gelebia ; it is made of a coarfe and thick wrought:
Woollen Stuff, without Sleeves, but Holes to put.
the sir Arms through ; it. reaches to their ayaa
and hangs. loofe aber their Bodies like a Sack
‘The Alcaydes have a bread Leathern Belt sibeole
dered with Gold, to hang their Cymetersin, which
they wear over their Souidee
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almott like the Men, their outward Garment be-
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being an Albague, with which — they cover their
Heads, bringing i it down over their foreheads clofe
to their Eyes, ee underneath tye a Picce of white
Cloth,. to hide the lower Part ef their Paces the
thagues cover all Parts but their Legs,’ which ge=
nerally are naked, when they are at Home, or vi-
fit from the Tops of their Houfes ; only fome of
the better Sort have their Drawers fo long, that
they reach to their Feet, hanging in great loofe
Folds about their Legs ; their Shoes are the fame
as the Men’s; within Doors they appear in tlteir
Hair, having only a fingle Binder about their Fore+
heads ; their Hair is pleated in two large Pleates
that hang down behind at full Length : They wear
a Veit which is open from*the Bofom to the Watte,
to fhew their Smocks that are embroidered 3 they
ans large Pieces of Muflin to the Sleeves of their
Velts, which hang down very low in the Nature of
Ruffels ; their Drawers are longer than the Men’s,
o caaeeels Saeed to the Calf of their Legs ; over
their Drawers they wear a fhort. Petticoat ; they
put B clens upon their Legs and Arms, and large
Ear-rings in their Ears, no,
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THEY have very fine Eyes, and fome of them
beautiful Skins, which we fometimes had an Op-
portunity of feeing ; for though a Man may live
a Year in Tetuan, and not tie the Face of a
Moorifo Woman in the Str de yet when we met
them in the Fields, or faw them on the Houfe-tops,
if none of the Afsors were in Sight, they would
unveil, laugh, .and give themfelves a little loofe,
ti!l the Appearance of one obliged thena to hide
their Faces again,
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4 Tuefday the 13th of ‘fune we began our Journey
to Mequinez, leaving Tetuan about Five of the
-Cleck in the Afternoon, and a little after Six en+
camped in a pleafant dips by the Side of a fmall
River called Bo/pherah, fix Miles from Tetuan.
Here Ben Hattar lay encamped, having left the
Town before, to fettle his Things in order for tra-
velling. :
¢ THe rth at Three in the Afternoons we left
Darxerbeb, travelling thro’ a mountainous Country,
the Road leading us over the Tops of fuch
rocky Hills, that it was difficult to geta alon ng. We
came to our Tents between Six and Seven, which
_were pitched eighteen Miles from our forimer
Camp.
¢ Tre 16th we fet out at Six in the Morning, the
Trumpet founding to Horfe, which for the future
was to be the Signal for rifing, after which it was
expected every Body fhould be ready in: halfan
Hour ; we now began to have very het travelling,
as may be imagined from the Climate, and Seafon
of the Year, which daily encreafed, as well by
Reafon of arriving more In-land, as the approach-
ing Midfummer : "We came to our Camp at Nine,
about- Twelve Miles off, clofe toa little Rivulet
called d/charod.
© Tue r7th we fet out again at Six in the Morn-
ing, and about Ten encamped at the River Ham-
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‘Tneampment. In the Way came to us one Sidz
Hamet, and old» Man; related to one of the Em-
peror’s Women ; he is Governor of ‘the’ Dwaries
in thefe Parts, 7. e. the flying Villages of the drabs,
of which we hadt this Day pats’ d by feveral : The
Inhabitants of them feem to live miferably, havinz
but very indifferent Lodgings, their Heutes ont
ing of nothing but Sticks, with a Rufh or Cloth
Covering i in [mitation of a Tent, moving from
Place to Place for the Conveniency of Pafture and
Water. - Thefe Towns are’ generally built in the
Shape of-a Ring, by placing one Row of Houfes
clofe together, and going round with them till they
meet, leaving a large vacant Space in the Infide ;
In the Middle of which tere ttands a Houfe by tt-
‘felf, which we fuppofe belonged to their Sheiek or
Chief, whom they have the Liberty of chufing out
of their own Tribes ; the Emperor g eathering the
Tribute from them. by ’a Perfon whom he Bical
from Court, and makes an Alc cayde for that Pur-
pofe. Thefe Arabs are for. the mo Part very
tawny, live naftily with their Cattle and Poultry,
-and their young Children run about naked ; they
have Abundance of fine black: Catile, which Dtike
to be the chief of their Subitance,
*‘ NorwiTHSTANDING the unfettled Way of
Life, and feeming Poverty of thefe People, a goo!
Revenue is drawn from them, there being reckon’d
to dwell, only i in the Plains of Fez, 300,000° of
them paying Garam, that is, the tenth Part of f all
they have, to which they are liable as foon as they
come to be fifteen Years of Age: This is the
ax commanded by their Law ; but the Alcaydes
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are fo far from being fatisfed with it, that they “o-
* mit.no Manner of ina bie and Rapine, to fideoe
the People of all they ca
‘ In Morcceo they are not. above «100,000. of
them, but in Swz they are very numerous, and
formerly refufed to pay Trivute, which coft the
Emperor a great deal of Time inurely to. fubdue
them. When they have a Mind toremove to
-another Place, they load their Camels, Bulls’ and
Cows, on which they put Packfaddles, fetting their
Wives and Children on them, in lenge Wicker
Bafkets, covered with Cloth to keep off the Suns;
after which Manner they roam about til they have
founda Place to their. Mind.
* At Night we had great sinc of. Cufeaf 208 5
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and ethee Provifions, brought in by the People,
‘and the Mountaineers... In all Parts of the Ba-
thaw’s Dominions. where he travels, the People
bring in Plenty of what shiey haves which colts him
nothing. | e
¢ Tue 18th we decamped between Five and Six
in the Morning, and pafled the River ,£/aabaffen,
famous for the Battle fought between Don vial
© tian, King of Portugaland the Adsense
© WHEN we came within two Miles of A/caffar,
we were met by Alcayde fuze, Governor of
Yangier; he came towards us witha Spear car-
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‘¢ before, the. Dao of their Tents. “We pitched our
Tents clofe to. the. .Walls of Alcaffar, about. fix-
<teen Miles from our laft Incampment.
¢ ALCASSAR was once a City of good Note,. and
the: Seat of the Governor of. this ane of the King-
dom ; It .was buile. by faced Almanzor Hing of
Fez, aboutthe Year 180.
¢ Monpay the 26th, about Four ofthe Clock
in the Afternoon, we left A dleaffar, our Wumber
being very much increafed by joining the Bafbaw
“and, his fixteen Brothers, belulce Ne phews, the
whole Family being ordered to Court. We came
“to our Camp: about Six .o’Clock, ten Miles froma
tieelles
¢ THE anth we re decamped at Six in the Morning,
and, about Eleven cameto our Tents, which were
pitched by the Side of alittle Brook called Beborah,
having travelled about iixteen Miles.
‘ THe 28th we fet out at Three in the After-
noon and, a little after Six -cameto, the River
Cebu, about, twelve: » Milcs off, where We eli
camped. .F . ) im
‘ THE agth, about half an Hour after Two in
the Morning, we left. the River Cebus travelling
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by Moon-light over t ai Plain of AZermora, abut
twenty Miles, This Plain is very remarkable for
its exceeding Smoothnefs, ftretching itfelf about
eighty Miles In-land from the Sea at AZarmora, as
even asa Rowling-green. At Eight we encamped
near Sidi Ce om, a fmall Town fituated at the Foot
of a Ridge of Mountains that inclofe this Plain to
the Southward. The Town takes its Name from a
Saint, who has a Monument in it, to which the
Moors with great Superftition refort to fay their
Prayers ; anda’ great many more Saints are buried
in the Road to Mequinez, having little Monuments
over them, which the Moors will feldom pafs
Without praying at.
© THE 3oth we tay ftillin our Camp at Sidi Caf.
Jem, the Bafhaw ftaying for fome of his Gover-
nors, to bring in their Contributions for the Prefent
to the Emperor ; ; but we were obliged to keep our
Diftance from this. holy Town, for Superftition
runs fo high in Favour of the Saint, its Godfather,
that it would be a great Prophanation for any but
Mahometan Feet to tread near it; of which being
told, we rather chofe to let our Curiofiti¢s be’ un-
tied, than run the Rifque of their fuperftitious
Infults. :
¢ Jury the rf we departed from Sidi Caffem
“about half an Hour after Five in the Morning, af-
cending a rocky Mountain, which at Top is fo
ragged, that it. was with great Difficulty we got”
over 3 andthe Defcent fo fteep and ftony, that a
ditthe wet would make it wee cht for Horfes.
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| Between Seven and Eight we had a Sight of dde-
€ guinez from the Top of aHill About Ten. we
panna miped ina Plain called. Aduley Idris, from a
Saint who had a Monument hard by ; This dduley
idris was the Founder of the City of Fez, and firft
| Aratian Prince who reigned in Barbary ; he was
made a Saint for compelling a great Number of
Jews to turn Adahometans ; his Tomb is (to this
Day) a fure San@uary for thofe who fly from the
Wrath of the Prince, or would avoid Jpftice 5 sand
is of fo great Veneration, that the Travellers.te
Mequines go confiderably ont of their Way ta
pray at it, and the Emperor himfelf ofteir pays bis
Devotion there.
* Turis Day was fo exceeding hot and doa * that
all Manner of Metal was heated to fuch a Degree
by the Air which, came into our Tents, iingtis we
could party touch it.
‘ Tue Country we had hitherto palfed, is very
" pleafant and fertile ; the Plains inmany Places
abounding in Cornand Cattle, and. the Hills and
Mountains yielding Plenty of Olives, though a
great Part lies wafte and uncultivated ; not. fo
much for want of a fufficient Number of Inhabi-
tants, as by Reafon of the Oppreflions from the
Government, which makes them choofe to live at
fome Diftance from the high Roads, and feldom
cultivate more Land than they neceflarily want for
their own Sultenance.
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© Tue ad we left Muley Idris at half an ‘Hout
after Five in the Afternoon, and-upon the Road
heard «that Ben Hettar (who went to Mequinez
two Days before) had been very well received by.
the Emperor : The Reafon why I givean Account
of Ben Hattar’s Reception by the ore is be~
caufe no Man goes before him, but with the utmoft
Fear, and in Doubt whether he fhall return alive ;
fo that when any confiderable Perfon has been in
his Prefence, it ts ufual to tell immediately Abroad,
what Kind of Reception he bas met with ; and thé
Account of Ben Hattar’s was brought to us a great
many Miles before we came to Meguinesz, as a Piece
of good News. About Nine we came to the Ba- .
fhaw’s Camp, which was pitched within two or
fe Miles of Mdequinezs |
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© Mowpay the gd we fet forward at Four cf
the Clock in the Morning, the Moon being up,
and a little before Sun-rife entered the City, to
avoid the prodigious Croud we fhould have met ~
with, had the Day been farther advanced; by
which Means we got to our Houfe with very little
Interruption. The Bafbaw: of Tetuan not having
been at Court’ for three Years, this Morning ap-
peared before the Emperor, to whom he had been —
aceufed of being carelefs of his Government, in
letting the Spartan ds drive him out of his Camp be-=
fore Gaui and he was in great Danger of his Life 5
the Emperor feverely threatening him, and telling
him he was not nt to command, but after he bad
been fufliciently frightened, he bid him go into the
Palace to fee a Sifter of his, who was one of the
Emperor’s Women 3 which he did to fend him.
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i¢ out of the etek while he vented fome _ Part of. his
rs ‘Anger, on his Followers; for fome Body. had given
6 him a Lift of thofe about the Bafhaw who were
moft in his Efteem. The firft on this Lift hap-
K pened to be one Larbe Shott, a Man worthy of a
“ better Fate than what he met. with, (which has
ie been already related i) the next was one of the
‘© Bafhaw’s Secretaries, whom the Emperor ordered
* to be toiled.
i : The sth, the Pushin fent one of his Courtiers,
* to tell the Ambaflador, that he thought the tle
¢ he was in (which belonged to the Bafhaw of Te-
© tuan) was not -good enough. for him, and that he
‘€ would have him go to a Houfe. of Ben Hatiar’s,
that he had lately built, and. was one. of the
© beft in Meguin wx 5 to which we removed: di-
4 rectly.
The firft Audience me ich his E-xceble ency the Honourable
Charles Stewart, E/g; bad thre En mberte of Mo-
TOCcCcO.
< O N Thut fday the 6th of Fuly, aiait dower of
the Clock in the Morning, the Emperor fent
© an Alcayde with a Guard to conduct the Ambaila-
“-dorta him ; We pafled through) the, Streetsin the
© following. Manner ;. firft there went two ‘Serjeants
© on Horfeback ; they, were followed by our Mufick,
6 which play’d allthe Way; then came the Ambar;
6 dey with his Livery-Men on each, Side, and after
* him the Gentlemen of his Retinue, who were fol-
£ lowed by feveral Servants -on.,Horfeback ; lat
8 all came the Engl Captive Mailers of Bins
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on Foot. ‘The Aleayde who commanded the
Guard would not futfer the Ad@gors (who were not
inthe Emperor’s Servicc) to come near us, fo that
when any of them endeavoured after it, he ufed to
point at them, to fhow the Guards where they
were, who laid on unmercifully dee ben knock-
“ing them down.
«¢ Berne arrived at the outward Gate of the Pa-
Jace, we difmounted, and paffing through three or
four large Court-yards, fat down under fome Piaz-
zas for about half an Hour. Then Word being
brought that the Emperor was come out, we were
led into a fpacious Place, where at a Diftance we
faw him, with an Umbrellow over his Head, his
Guards behind him drawn up in the Shape of an
Half moon, holding the Butt-end of their Pieces
with their Right Hands, and keeping them clofe
to their Bodies, with the Muzzles directly upwards.
His Courtiers on each Side, bare-footed, and in the
Habit of Slaves, who never ftand exaét before
him, but making a Lane, watch the Motion of his
Horfe, that they may immediately fall into the fame
Pofture.
€ We marched towards the Emperor, o our Mufick
playing, till we came within fourfcore Yards of
him, when it was furprizing to fee the old Mo-
narch alight from his Horfe, and proftrate himfelf
upon the Earth to pray 3 im which Pofture he
continued fome Minutes with out Motion, with his
’ Face fo clofe to the Ground, that the Duft re~
mained upon his Nefe when we came up to him ;
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* then mounting his Horfe again, he took a Launce
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in his Hand ; ‘and Ben Aaitar leading the Ambaf>
fador up, we fell in to one Rank, and bowing as
~we approached the Emperor, he nodded his Head,
and faid Bona, feveral Times, and bid the hmabaks
fader be covered, which he did, and-at the —)
Time delivered his } Majeity’ S Letice ty’d up a
. Sik Handkerchief, into the Emperor’s Ha in “(ior
itis a Rule never to deliver-with bare Handsas Let.
ter to the Emperor) telling him that he was come
from the King of Great Britain his Matter, to fet-
tle Peace, F riendfhip, and a good Underitanding
between the twe Crowns, and that he had brought
© him a Prefent, which he hoped he would accept.
The Emperor replied, he fhould have every Thing
he came for, becaufe he loved the Engli/h 3 and
that fuch of the Afoors whom the Ambaflador had
brought over with him as were able, fhould pay
their Ranfom, and thofe who were not, the Ba-
ibaw> of -Letyan fhould pay for; but recolleéting :
himfelf,, he faid the Fugii made no Slaves, nor
fold any; upon which the Ambaflador told him, he
hoped he would have the fame Regard forthe King
‘6 his Maiter’s Subje&ts, and admit them to return
Home into their own Country, a Charity becomes
ing fo potent a Monarch, and a convincing Proof
of the great Regard he had for the Exgli/b Nation ;
not that the Nation ftood in Need of the Men, for
¢ the Hugli/h employ’d 100,000 0n the Seas; but that
the King his Matter was,defirous, out of his Good-
nefs to his People, that fo many of his Subjecis
might return again, to fee their. Wives and-Fami-
ies. It was very difficult.to get the Emperor to
have Patience to.hear what the Ambafiader-had to
fay, cing fond of {peaking much himfelf, and. in-
f terrupting
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‘interrupting the Linguit fo’ often,' that Te is hard
‘ for! amy Body to hat a fair baie | the etation made to
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¢ Tele Antlediador now idliviesinta the Articles of
Peace to the Emperor, told him they were figned
“by the: King’ his Mafter; and defired «he would be
-Ipleafed: to fign a Counterpart to be carried to Eng-
land; to which the Emperor faid, that his Word
was as effeual as his We iting , but ho wera he
would-do that to fatisfy him.; and giving the Ar-
ticles‘ toshis: Admiral, Al Fadge Abdeleader Peres,
vei neha Ambatiidot to England) told the
Apbafiador, that he'made him a'Prefent of Nine
meChathany fora: Breakfait, and he might’ cheole
which he pleated.”
¢ Ten the Emperor peaking to tive Bafhaw of
Ferman, the” latter’ “proftrated' himfelf upon ‘the
Earth, and kiffed the Ground at his Horfe’s Feet,
and adifint went up to the Emperor, and kiffed his
Foot; which they all do very often, when he
talks. to themy and go backwards into their Places
again. =
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* Dae Kingeror: was about | Bichty- foes Year
old, and’ very adtive for fuch an “Age. He wasa
| dite fiz’d Man, and had the Remains of'a cood
Face, ‘with nothing ofa Megro’s Features, tho’? his
Mother was a Piaaks he had a high Nofe, which
is pretty lone from thé ‘Eye-brows: dé wiwards,and
thin. He had’ loft! all his’ Teeth, and. slaps d
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fhort, as.if his Lungs were bad, congh’d and {pit
pretty often, which never fell to the Ground, Men
being always s ready with Handkerchicts to receive
it. His Beard was thin and very white ; his. Eyes
feem’d to have been fparkling, but their Vigour de-
cay’d through Age,-and his Cheeks were very much
funk in. He was mounted upon a black Horfe,
not.fo remarkable f se his Bea wty, as being yaught to
pleafe him. Ris Negroes continually fan’ ‘and beat
the Flies fram his Hort: with Cloths, and the Um-
brellow is conftan itly kept twirling over his Head
the M an that Carriles it nie ne great Care to move
4s his Horfe ddes, that no Sun m ay Come -upon tye
Emperor. is Drefs was not much diferent from
what his Bafhaws wear, whe out of his Prefence,
‘confifting of a fine Alhague ; his Durbant was
made with fine Rolls of Muflin, that came very low
upon his Forehead ; the End of his Cymiter hung
out ; it was chubted with. Gold, and - -handfomely
fet with large Emeralds ; his Saddle was covered
with Scarlet Cloth, embroidered with Gold, witd
one Piftol in a Cloth Cafe, on the Left Side. Part-
ing from the - Empe ror, which we did by going
bec bwarde 4 good Way, Ben Hattar (by his Order)
conducted us to fee the Palace.
The Ainbaffador’ s fecond Auilience of the Emperor.
ULY the 23d, the Ambaflador having broke
through forre Meafures that had been taken to
difappoint him, by writing a Letter to the Queen,
the Emperor ordered-all the Englifh Captives to
be drawn up together in_ his Palaces and at the
fame Time fent for the Ambaflador. We went
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Emperor fitting under fome Piazzas ; but upon our
Approach he mounted his Horfe, and faluted the
Ambaffador with Bono, Bone, and told him, that at
firft he did not apprehend that he had full Power to
conclude a Peace, but thought he only came to
make Preparation for another Ambafiador ; but now
finding he had fufficient Authority, faid he fhould
have all his Countrymen; and at the fame Time
waving his Hand to the Captives, he bad them go
Home along with the Ambaflador into their own
Country ; upon which they all fell proftrate, crying
out, God blefs thy Power, and were going out of
his Prefence, when the Emperor caufing them te
ftay, further faid, that he lov’d the Ambaffador
and all the Englifb, becaufe he knew they loved
him and his Houfe, and that there fhould not be
an Englifh Mana Slave in his Empire, for he |
would fer them all at Liberty in what Part foever
they were ; then waving his Hand again to the
Captives, they went away ; and the Ambaflador
returning the Emperor Thanks for the Honour he
had done him, told him, that he fhould always
regard his Intereft, when he was gone out of his
Dominions ; to which the Emperor faid, that he
fhould then fee how well he deferved the Prefent
he had made him that Morning ; that he would not
have him ftay an Hour in AZequinez, and withing
him fafe into his own Country, the Ambaifador
took his Leave, the Emperor faying (feveral Times)
God blefs ysu, and turning his Horfe, galloped away
with his Launce in his Hand, his Guards running
cloie behing him.
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¢ Our Captives, who were in the Palace before:
we came, told us, thatthe Emperor had been in a:
great Paffion with fome of the Alcaydes, wounding
one of them with his Launce, drawing his Cymeter
to ftrike another, and had caufed one of them to be
tofied. 7
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© Tre 24th our Captives fet out for Tetuan, joye
fully leaving the Place of their Captivity, to par-
take of the Bleffings of Freedom. At Tetuan the
- Bafhaw was very dilatory in appointing a Day for
our Captives to go aboard ; till receiving. a Letter’
from one of the Queers, Wherein. fhe highly’
threatened him for detaining them, and the Powder
for Part of their Ranfom being arrived from G7d-
raltar, the Ambafladorhad the good Succefs to em=
* bark 296 Enghj/h, being (with a few who died on:
~ the Road) all that were left alive, and had not
turned A4gors, of thofe who had been taken in a=
© bout feven Years War.”
Ce ee eee ee ee
Tuvs Mecelsrully ended Commodore Stewart’s
Embafly for the. Redemption of Briti/d Captives ;.
which Mr. Perrow had fome Skare in, as being a
eres Attendant, during the Time, on the Empe-
ror; but he pafled it by in che Journal, becaufe (con-
tinues he) I have Matter enough concerning my
own Adventures (over and above the fimall Share [.
had in that) and fuch I hope (being the plain and
natural Truth, without the leaft Mixture of Ro-
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Romance or AffeGiation) as will in) no wile be un-
acceptable to my Readers. i ‘
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I being now become, as I have already faid, one it
the Emperor’ s Attendants, and always read y in Obes
dience to his Commande, 1 In receiving him bare-
headed and bare-footed at his Entrance in, or-at his
going out of the Palace, I having my Head thaved |
every eighth Day for that Purpofe ; and notonly
his Guard treat him with this febenifiive Refpect,
but his whole Court, confifting of his great Officers
and Alcaydes, aflemble every Morning .about. Eight
er Nine o’Clock, -all -bare-feoted, to know if the
Emperor hes been Abroad, (for if he +keeps within
Doors, there’s no feeing him, anlefs fent for) or if
he’s returned in a. good Fl atbuk, which is well
known by his very Looks and. Motions, and fome=_
times by the Colour ef the Habit he wearsy yellow
being obferved to be his killing Colour’; from. all
which they calculate whether they may hope to live
twenty-four Hours longer.
IF the een comes out, oe Necksiare all held
out, their Eyes fixed on the Ground 3. and after this
Miaier the crouching Creatures Bay their: aati
and when they approach him, fall down and, kifs th
Ground at his Horfe’s Feet. If he fpeaks; fn
fwear by their Ged, what he fays ts true 5 others, at
every Paufe he makes, cry out, Ged lengiben thy
Days, my Lordy Ged blefs thy Life; which onceoc-
eafioned an accidental Jeft, for he was faying, Mey
I be called the greateft of Lyars, if I have not always
conceived a great Effeem for the Englifh; and
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making.a little, Stop at.the Wor rd Zyans, his officious
Court cry’d out, ig by G--d it’s true my Lord.
Ir he comes not outy he fometimes fends for fome
of them 5 at other Times he has the Door opened,
and orders them all to pafs mutter, and they go,one
by one cringing by, the Door. If he only goes a lit
tle Way out of the Gate of his Palace, they follow
him cn: Foot through the Dirt, ; and i hes 1S a great
Man, and efteemed a great Favourite, who advances
as far as his pa Re ; and if he has Occafion tofend
a Meflage, though never fo trivial, the beft of them
are ready to run, without Refpect to Age, Ranks or
Favour, (even bis Favourite Hameda ctiy to make
his Court this Way) and. return befpattered up to
their Eyes, at leaft ail over their white Drawers, and
other Garments which are white ; nay, I have heard
that Hamet Ben, Hadduw Attar (who was Ambaflador
in England in King Gharles the Second’s Lime). was
once furpriz ed wit thout his Shoes, walking bare- foot
in a great deal of Dirt ey bis Horfe ; and without
Pera to his. Age, or the Pretence he had _ to his
eu, was fent to the furtheft Part of the Town
in that Condition... ;
eye tunitrels all Intervals cose fuch my Attendance,
] was, together with the reft of the Guards, gene-
aes exercifed in fhooting with a fingle Ball ata
Mark, which was generally a red Cap fet on the
Top of a high Picce of Ground, diflant about. twa
hundred Paces.,3.,at.whichrwe.adly to the Number
of nine hundred,, and. fometimes mere, fired toge-
ther at. the W ond of Commiand,.. the .Emperor “fo
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ordering tt, thereby to make us the more expert,
ready and: dexterous, in cafe of any warlike Action,
whereto we might happen to be fuddenly called ;
though for my Part, I could never fee who that
Perfon was that hit the Mark, if hit at all; and
aw was, I think, impofiible for any to determine,
though I muft acknowledge it to be a very good
Way in -training up Soldiers, to their making of
clofe Vollies ; yet, indeed, I faw at other Places thefe
Firings fingle, and where the Party was fo lucky to.
hit it, he did not fail of a fuitable Reward.
You may now perhaps imagine, that as I was al-
together at the Emperor’s Command, I was quite
excluded the Sight and Favour of the Queen’; which
I was not, often receiving very valuable Acknow-
ledements thereof, even from her own Hands,. and
certainly through her Means I hitherto fared the bet-
ter with the Emperor ; ; for, in fhort, fhe thought fhe
could not oblige me enough, and therefore was over
folicitous in an Affair which I had much rather fhould
have been let alone, and fuch as [ thought fhe would
never have urged or confented wirh herfelf to have
put upon me, it being quite the Reverfe of my In-
clinations ; yet did fhe urge it, and obtain it, and
was, no Doubt, fome Time in bringing it about with:
the Emperor.
One Day, the Emperor being on the merry Pin,
ordered to be brought before him eight hundred
young Men, and foon after as many ‘young Women,
who alfo inftantly appearing, (as being, no Doubt,
| aret ordered to be ready at Hand) he: told the
Men,
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Men, That as he had on feveral Occafions obferved
their Readinefs and Dextertty in obeying him, be would
therefore, as in fome Part of Recompence, give every
une of them a Wife; and which, indeed, he foon did,
by giving fome by his own Hand, (a very great Con-
defcenfion) and +o others by the Beckoning of his
Head, and the Caft of his Eye, where they fhould
fix; and after they were all coupled and departed, I
was alfo called forth, and bid to look at eight black
‘Women ftanding there, and to take one of them for
a Wife ; at which fudden Command, I (being not a
little confounded, as not at all liking their Co-
Jour) immediately bowing twice, falling te the
(Ground, and kiffing it, and after that the Emperor’s
Foot, (which is the Cuftom of thofe who defire to be
heard, as well as a very great Favour and Condef-
cenfion to be permitted to do) humbly intreated
him, if incafe I muft have a Wife, that he would be
gracioufly pleafed. to give me one of my own Co-
Jour; when forwith fending them off, he ordered
to be brought forth feven others, who all proved to
be A/ulatioes 3 at which again bowed to the Ground,
flill entreating him to give me one of my own Co-
Jour ; and then he ordered them alfo to depart, and
fent for a fingle Woman, full drefled, and who ina
very Httt: Time appeared, with two young Blacks
attending her, fhe being, no Doubt, the fame he and
the Quzen had before particularly defigned for me :
being forthwith ordered to take her by the Hand,
and lead her off, which fhe holding out to me, I per-
ceived it to be black alfo, as foon after I did her
Feet; at which I farted. back, like one in a very
great Surprize, and being afked what was the Mat-
ter, I anfwered him as before ; when he {miling, or-
dered me to lift up her Vail, (it being the Cuftom of
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the Country for Women to. go. vail’d) and look at
her Face ; which Treadily cbeying, found her to be
of a very agreeable Jomplexic on, «the old Lecher
ctying out, in avery pleafing Way, in the Spanifb
anguage, Bono ! ‘Bono? whieh ‘fienifies, Good I
Good | ori lering me, a fecond Time,to take her by
the Hand, lead her off, and keep her fafe.
Ts artificial Blacknefs of her Hands and Feet
was laid on by a certain Grafs, firft made into Pow-
der, and mixed: with Water, Allom, and the Juice
of Lemons, and is called Ldhe prea, sins brought
from the River Draugh, about: tea. Day s Journey
from Afeguinez, and {till further , from Ta ffolet, and. |
feveral other Places.
AT our coming out of the Pals lace, we found her —
Father, Mother, Sifter, and Sifter’s Hufband, ready:
to receive us, (the latter being a Man of. very confi-
derable Authority, eas having under his Command
one thoufand five hundred young Men, who go un-
der the Name of Kiadroffams, being all the Empe-
ror’ s Brothers-in-Law, and are generally at his Call
in the Palace) and received us very courteoully i in-
deed, at the fame Time defiring me,.as it was the
Emperor’ s.Pleafure to give me his Sifter, that I
would always behave to her as a loving Hufband, fo
far as fhe deferved, and at the fame Time exhorting
her no Tefs in her Duty to me; which we both rea-
dily promifed to each other, and which was indeed by
both of us as faithfully performed: Their next Re-
quell being our. Acceptance of an Apartment (as has
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Houfe, till fuch Time as we were pfovided with one
of our own which we as readily came into, and tage-
ther with the old Gentry, went with them, tho’
we were for the firft Night lodged in feparate Lodg-
ings, the Cnftom of the Afoors not admitting us to
lie together; nor, as I fuppofe, did any of the refi,
being all firft obliged to appear again the next Day at
the Palace, there to receive a Certificate from the
Secretary asa Ratification or finifhing Stroke, and
each Couple fifteen Ducats, each Ducat 6s. 8 d.
making in all juft 5 1. in Egli/b Money, two thirds
for the Man, and one for the Woman, as the Empe-
ror’s Bounty on fuch-like Occafions, before our
Marriage could be confummated: Which being
said, and our Certificates delivered, each Man pay~
‘ng for them (as the Secretary’s Fee) fixteen Blan-
xeels, (Pieces of Money of about T'wo-pence in Va-
“ae each) we were all difmifled, to make merry with
sur Friends, and celebrate our Nuptials ; and.as
and my Spoufe were well accounted of amongft the
setter Sort, we did net want for Plenty of Wedding
“zuefts, nor they for Plenty of good Eatables, I ha~
ving provided, at my own Charge, (over and above
hat of my Brother-in-Law’s) a fat Bullock, four
sheep, two Dozen of large Fowls, twelve Dozen of
voung Pidgeons, 150 1b. Weight of fine Flour, and
50 lb. of Butter, witha fufficient Store of Honcy,
spices, &%¢.. All which, our Wedding holding three
Jays, was clearly difpatched with a great deal of
Mirth, and friendly Satisfaction; yet was it the
obereft Wedding you ever faw, for we had not,
zmong all this great Company, one intoxicated
erfon, though they had all as much Liquor as.
hey would drink; but fuch, indeed, as might
ooner break their Bellies, than operate in. their
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Noddles, being enly Water ; Wine being by their
grand Impoftor, and great Prophet, Adah eet, alto-
‘gether forbidden ; and theugh it is Death by his
Law. for any Perfon difcovered in drinking it, yet it
is by fome privately drank, even to Excefs, there be-
ing great Storey and very good in Barbary, belides
what they catch from other Countries.
‘Tuis fhort Way of marrying his Guards, the
Emperor frequently put in Practice, by often order-
ing great Numbers of People before him, whom he
marries without any more Ceremony, than pointing
to the Man and Woman, and faying, Had: yi boud
Hadi, that is fo fay, That take That; upon which
the loving Pair join together, and march off as firmly
noos’d, asif they had been marricd by a Pope. He
always yoaks his beft complexioned Subjects to a.
Black Help-mate, and the fair Lady muft take up
witha Negro. _ But the Adoors in general, who are
not matried by the Emperor’s Command, ufe a great
deal of Ceremony about it.
Wuewn a Man wants a Wife, either his Mother,
or fome of his Female Relations; muft goa courting
for him, (Cuftom not permitting the Man to vifit the —
~Woman before-hand) and when the Bargain is made,
- which isdone before the Cady, or Juftice, the Bride
is to keep within fer eight Days, her Friends coming,
to rejoice:with her every Day, anda Talb or Prictt
alfo vifiting her, and difeourfing.on that holy State 5.
apt pin the Bafket witha religious Flymn appointed —
for that Purpofe. “Che Hufband, with his. Friends,
repeats: the fame Ceremonies, fox five Days before
the
fe
the Confummation, in a Houfe which he has, or
_muft take to bring his Wife to, The laft Day
the Bride i} put into a Cage, covered with a fine Li-
nen Cloths and carried on Men’s Shoulders to the
Houf of her intended Hufband ; her Friends Rela-
tions, and Mufick going before: Her Brother (if fhe
has one) leads herinto the Houfe, where a Room is
appointed for her and the Women ; the Man remuins
alfo in his Room with his Friends. When the
Evening approaches, they are let loofe by the Come
pany, and the Bridegroom goes to his Wife’s Apart-
ment, where he Grads her alone, fitting on a Cufhion
of Silk, Velvet, or fuch fine Things as they can bor-
row, (if they have them not of their own) underneath
there’s a Silk Quilt ; before her flands a little Table,
about a Foot high, with two Wax Candles upon it 3
upon her Head fhe has a black Silk Scarf, ty’d ina
Knot, the Ends hanging on the Ground behind her ;
her Shift is made with large Slecves like the Men’s,
and long enough to hang behind her like a Train 5
her Vel i is of Silk, or Velvet, buttoned clofe to -
Hands, and Hath. to the Middle of her Leg, adorned
with Lace at the Hands, and all over the Brest: fhe
has the fame Linen Drawers defcribed in the Wo-
men’s Drefs, and Collars of Pearl or fine Stones, and:
(if the can get them) of Lyons or Eagles Claws tipt
with Silver; in her Ears fhe has great t Rings of Gold
‘or Silver, and the fame about her Wrifts and
Ankles, fometimes fet with Stones ;‘her Slippers
have thick Soles made of Cork, covered with. gilt
Teather, and edged with the fame, which: is a
Mark of Greatnefs among them, the Emperor
and fome few more wearing them 3 her Cheeks are
‘painted which Cocheneal, which éclatit’s yellow at
fifty but being subbed, pretently turns red 5 with
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this they make one great round Spot on each Cheek! |
Their Eye-brows are painted black, and continued
quite round their Temples, like a. Pair of Whifkers <
‘They alfo make fome fmall black Spots, in Imitation:
of Patches, near their Nofe and Lips, a black Snip
on the End of their Nofe, and a black Stroke, the
Breadth of a Straw from their Chin, reaching down
below the Pit of their Stomach, and. how much lower
I.can’t tell, for there they begin to beeover’d; they:
paint their Eye-lids, and the Sides of them with a
black Powder called A/chol, putting fome of the fame
into their Eyes with a little Stick ; the Palms of their
Hands are all blacked ; and from the Top of their
Thumbs round the flefhy Part, is a black Stroke,
and one from the End of each Finger to the Palm ;.
their Nails are dyed yellow ; they alfo have many
fine Scrawls of black on the T op of their Feet, ang .
their Toe-nails are likewile dyed yellow, -
Tus beautified, the Bride fits behind the Table
mentioned before, with two Wax Candles upon it,
holding her Hands up the Height of her Face, with,
the Palms turned towards her, about a Foot Diftance
from each other, and as much from her Face, upon
which fhe is to look, and not on her Hufband, whe
is to feize her when he comes intothe Room, and_
lift her upon the. ufual Bed-place, which is about four
Feet high, and there he ftrips her, fhe not lending
him the leaft Affiftance, nor is fhe to fpeak for three.
Days ; he is to make what Hafte he can, that he
may deliver her Drawers to two black Women, who:
kcep the Door, and are to carry them to. the reft of .
the good Women 5 and if fuch Si igns appear on them. |
_ agare expected, the Mufick plays ; but if he doth.
not
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| flot fend out the Drawers, the Mufic does not play; and
it behoves him to beftir himfelf about this Matter,
for befides the Hazard of his Reputation the Com-
pany will meet every Day till the Drawers come: If
the proper Marks appear, the Drawers are fent to all
their Relations iy Trismph, (as is ftill pra&tifed in
fome Parts of Spain) but if he finds her to be no: Maid,
he ftrips her of her Gayety, and turns her out of
Doors the next Moment. The Bridegroom is oblized
to flay at Home for feven Days, and the Bride awhole
Year ; who is kept ever after fo clofe from the reft
ef Mankind, that not even her Father or Brother can
have the Priviledge of a Vilit,. unlefg her Hufband is.
prefent,. .
© Axx the Women paint after the Manner before-
Mentioned , at their publick Meetings ; they are ex-
treamly handfome, and bred up with the greateit
Care imaginable in Relation to: their Modeity ; the
fatteft and biggeft are moft admired, for which Rea-
fon they cram themfelves againft Marriage with a
Food called Zummith ; it isa Compound of Flour,
Honey and Spices, made into little. Loaves for that
Purpofe..
AND now am I foor about to enter from the
Sports of Venus into the Field of Adars, though in-
deed I had: the Company of my Wife by Intervals
for fome Years after ; for our W edding. being: ended, °
I-wason-the fourth Day, or Day after, ordered to
‘prepare myfelf for my Departure toa Garrifon in the
Province of Tamnfnzh,. about fix Days Journey from
Adequines, whence (after taking Leaveof our Friends)
I 3 I and
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and my Wife fet out the fame Day accompanied by —
fix hundred of thofe who were fo lately married
with us, three hundred of them being put under my
Command, and the other three hundred under the
Command of A¢ufa or Mofes Belearge, a Spaniard,
they likewife taking with them their Wives: Thefe
fix hundred Men were of different Nations, French,
Spaniards, Portugueze, and Italians, but not an
Englifh Man amongft them, except myfelf. Bafhaw
Flammo Triffce, (begot between a Spaniard and a
éifoor) Commander in Chief of that Province, with
two thoufand Men, went alfo with us, and being o-
bliged to take with usa Prieft, the Emperor com-
mianded me to find one, if poffible, who was both
-blind and deaf, that if in cafe any of us fhould hap-
pen to take a Cup of Wine, (as being ufed thereto
in our own refpeCtive Countries, and therefore might
the fooner do fo in his) he might not be capable of
taking Noticeof it; for, added he, rho’ 7 wall by ne
édeans encourage it, yet foould I much rather be excus’d
from receiving any Complaints of that Nature, whereby
ro give them any Uneafinefs: ‘Though I made the
beft Enquiry I could, yet Icould by no Means meet —
with fuch a one; therefore I recommended to him my
Wife’s Uncle, a feeming honeft Man, and one who
was approved of by the Emperor, and by us as joy-
fully received ; and after being ftriftly charged to
refide the firft Month at the Caftle of Tamnfnoe, and
the next at Staut, fo.aseach Garrifon might have him
by Turns every other Month, he chearfully travelled
on with us; and though he could both fee and hear
very well, yet was I under no Apprehenfion of his |
giving the Emperor any Uneafinefs on our Account, ~
I having before feen him to drink Wine in a plentiful
Manner. ieee Simian
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We are now (Women included) 2206 on the
Road, all well mounted, the Men on fine Horfes 5
which, as they are fo famous for Goodnels, it will
not be improper to fay fomething of the Adoars. Me-
thod of managing them.—The A/vors take a great
deal of Pride in their Horfes, and order them after a
very:different Manner from us 3 they back them ge-
nerally at two Years old, and fheer their Manes and
Tails till they come to fix, thinking that makes them
ftrong. At Grafs they tie fometimes the two fore
Feet together, at other Times a fore Foot and a hin-
der one. In their Stables they have two Iron Pins
drove into the Ground, one before, and the other be#
hind them, at the Ditance of about three Feet from
their Legs, which are faftened together with Ropes,
like our raves, with which we teach Horfes to paces
but being fhort, they draw their Legs together un-
der their Bellies, and two Ropes come from their
hind and fore Feet, which are fo tied to thefe Pins,
that they cannot ftir above one Foot backwards or
forwards. Their Collar ts allo made faft to the Pia
before them, which has a Ring for that Purpofe ;
under them is a Hole covered with Pieces of Timber
to receive their Water ; anda Jittle on one Side, a
Bed of Sand, or Saw-duft, for them to lie upon:
They have no Mangers, but eat their Straw or Grafs
off the Ground.
Aut their Horfes- eat Grafs in April and Aday 5
and, if it be a good Year, great Part of Adarch ; at
other Times they eat Straw inftead of Hay ; their
Barley is given them ina Woollen Bag, put over
their Heads. They are never drefs’d, nor their
Manes or Tails combed, but when dirty are carried
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to. the next running Water and wafhed ; and if they 3
defign to have them look fine, they ufe a little Soap,
soine will take it amifs that you touch a Horfe with
the Palm of your Hand to ftroke him, and fay there
is a Venom in that Part, which is. hurtful to Horfes.
‘They never crop their Tails or Ears, nor geld them,
for they like no maimed Creatures but Eunuchs, for
ether Reafons.
. Tuevy have one Sert which they eall Node
Aiirfes, who bow their Heads about at the Approach
pf a Man. Their Love is fo great for Horfes, that
not only they are one of the three Things for which
the Afoors have a Proverb, as moft efteemed, viz. 4
Horfe, a Woman, and a Book, but they keep even.the
Genealogies of them for two or three hundred Yeats,
aud are nice in diftinguifhing the true from the
mix’d Generations. “They have a bafe Way of fhoe-
ing them, cutting off the fore Part of the Hoof,
and forming the shoe into a triangular Shape, with
the two Points almoft meeting at “the Heel, which
Points are made very thin, cand: after the Shoe is -
fattened with three Nails on each Side, are beaten as
flat to the Hoof as poflible: But fome Time ago the
Emperor iffued out an Order, that upon Pain of
Death all Horfes fhould be fhoed with round Shoes, a
certain Turk having perfuaded him that was the beft
Way.
Tuey are not: fubjeét to Diftempers, and the
Moors know not what you mean bya Farfey or
Glander, nor have I ever feena Spavine or Mullen-
der. As for the Bergdders in the Mountains, they
never
Eas a
‘never fhoe their Horfes; and their Feet are certainly
Armer tban our’s, for a Horfe went to Tetwan from
‘the Camp, and came back the next Day, without. a
Shoe, which is fifty Miles ; and notwithitanding he
‘was forced. to crofs a Mountain full of Rocks going
and coming, not being able. to pafs the low Way for
ia River, it was not perceived he had the leaft Crack
in his Hoof, or made any Complaint of his Feet.
Their Horfes live toa great Age, and are very frefh
at fourteen or fifteen, the Reafon of which feems to
be their going fo gently.on the Road, where they
feldom are put out of a Foot-pace.; but when they
exercife the Launce, they make them beilir them-
felves to fome Purpofe.
- Our Women rode on Mules; and we got that
Day to the River Bate, about five Leagues, the fe-
cond Day to the Caftle Cafatjibbad, the third to an
‘old ruined Caftle called Phinfeera, and the fourth to
‘the Walls of Sallee, £Zammo Triffe and his People in-
‘camping and remaining without three Days, during
which us new-married People had the Liberty to go
into the Town, were lodged there, and moft fump-
tuoufly feafted by the Emperor’s Order, as indeed
‘were the Bafhaw’s Men in their Tents, there being
great Quantities of . Provifion of all Sorts carried out
for that Purpofe. -
_ Tue next Day we again fet forward, and got to
Sharrot, all the Way being very woody, and plenti- —
folly ftored with wild Hogs, and of them we killed
fome hundreds ; which, perhaps, (as their, Fleth is
by the Adahometan Law forbidden) may be imagin’d
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was either for Paftime or Antipathy, yet had we a--
nother Reafon, viz. by way of Revenge on a very
large Boar affaulting the Bafhaw, and killing his —
Morfe under him, though the Beaft inftantly loft his _
own Life by it. Thefe Boars, and éfpecially thofe
‘of a middle Age, are very dangerous Creatures,’ ha-
ving very long Tufks as keen as Knives, and which,
with the very great Force and Fury they execute their:
Intention with, will rip up any Thing as foon; the
‘Tufksof the old ones generally turn up like a Ram’s
Horn, fo that they cannot fo well bring them to-do
Mifchief, fuitable to their Rage.*
reat Plenty of Lyons, Tygers, Wolves, &c. How- _
ever, we faw none of them that Day.
SHARROT isa River difcharging itfelf into the Sea _
about feven Leagues to the Southward of Sallee, and —
plentifully flored with many Sorts of very excellent
Fifth ; and fording it the next Morning, we got that
Day to Gaebedad, vehere are laid up for that Part of
the Country, the Emperor’s Stores of Corn, which _
the Adoors have a Way of preferving without Da- —
mage fora hundred Years together, by putting it.
into Pits, plaifter’d within and over the Mouth, when:
they are full. “The next Day, at Ten in the Fore-
noon, we got to the Caftle of Tamnfnah ; where I,
by the Bafhaw’s Order, immediately entered’ with
two hundred of my Men and our Wives, the oldGar-.
rifon marching out to make Room forus, and my o- ©
ther hundred Men were fent with their Wives to —
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Bevafs another Caftle about three Days March from
hence, to be commanded by a Deputy of my owl
Appointment. |
At my Entrance into the Caftle, I found all
Chings pretty much in Diforder, there being almott
general Want of every Thing 5 for what.the old
People had, they carry’d (or at leaft moft of it) with
bem: However, thefe Wants were, by the Ba-
haw’s Diligence, (he remaining encamped without
ixteen Days) very plentifully fupplied, by fending us
n Provifions and Stores enough for our Subliftence
or fix Months. This being done, he rofe with his
mall Army, and departed, as ] was informed, for
Stant, a Garrifon diftant from thence about twelve
“eagues ; where after ftaying alfo about fixteen Days,
ind fettling Belearge and his Men therein for the
yetter Security of the Emperor’s Stores of Grain laid
ap there, he departed for the City of Adoroccos of
which he was the Governor.
Now have Land my Comrades for fome Time
nothing to do but to contrive Ways and Means how
to divert ourfélves ; which we did after the bef
Manner we could devife, living inan amicable Man-
ner, and paffing our Timewery pleafantly, here be-
ing to be our Station for about Six Years, though I
was feveral Times (with fome Part of my Men) or-
dered thence for the Space of fix or feven Months s
and thither again, and once of almoft two Years at
a Time ; my firft Abfence was about three Months
after my firft Arrival, when] received a peremptory
Command fromthe Bathaw to attend him with two
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hundred of my Men as foon as poffible I could, and
to leave my other hundred to fecure my feveral Gar-
rifons: In Purfaance of which Order, Idrew out.
one hundred and fifty of my Men, leaving the other
fifty to take Care of the Garrifon and ene Women,
and immediately aa ‘and got'that Day to the”
Cattle. of Stant;’ where I found my old Friend Be-
learge was with a ike Number gone before me. ‘The
fecond Day I marched to Geefaar, an old ruined -
Caftle, though well fftored with Water and many
other ssi Refrefhments, both for Man and
Horfe: And the third Day, abiaiik Noon, to my o-
ther Caftle of Broa/p, where I dire€tly entered, and
found my other hundred Men and_ their Wives very -
well, who received us very courteoufly ; and I forth-
with drawing out fifty of them, which made my
Number compleat, proceeded, and:got that Evening |
‘to Cedeboazze ‘m the Province of Talaror, and the
next to the River Tens/ft 3 whence very early tiie _
next Morning, the Bafhaw’ meeting us with good —
Store of Provifion on the Road, we were by him _
conduéted with fine Mufic playing before us, in great, [
Pomp to the Walls of Aforecco, where I (ind my
-old Friend Belearge with the reft of the Bafhaw’s Ar-
my, encamped without the Walls of the City ; the’
as we had before, by the Emperor’s Orders, Liberty
to go into the Town of Sallze, fo were we now or- :
dered to march together into Adgrocco, and there
treated after like Manner, with this Difference only, —
the former being at the Charge of the Emperor. and |
this at that of the Inhabitants, as indeed was alfo that
of the whole Camp. :
Pus City of Morocco is very well fituated,. afin
weckoned to be twelve Miles in Compafs:. It is faid
to.
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p haverhad formerly a hundred thoufand Houfes in
; but fince the Kings of Adorecco have removed
aeir Court from thence to AZequinex, it is greatly.
eereafed, but its Palace or Caltle is the ftatelieft of
iy in Africa, it being ofa prodigious Extent fome
“the Rooms of which have large Fifh Ponds in
vem, and the Fifhes may be feen fwimming in the
jooking-Glaffes, with which theCielings are covered:
“here are likewife in this City very fine Gardens,
ad many ancient and well-built Mofques, The fa-
sous Aqueducts, which bring Water to it from a-.
ove forty Miles, are a ftupendous Work,
We refted feven Days at Aforoceo, being ordered
n the eighth early to march out and jointhe Army ;
‘hen we all rofe, and marched that Day to the Ri-
zr of Wadden Enfeech, Diftance feven Leagues,
“here we refted that Night ; and the next Day te
Te/meath, at the Foot ofa very high Mountain, and
here (on Account of the Inhabitants there, and
uereabout, not having for fome Time back per-
armed the Payments of their wonted Tribute) we
ttled our Camp, and refted fifteen Days during
hich, notwithftanding they had before our coming.
‘fufed to pay it, yet did many of them, at our Ap-
‘oach, and efpecially Tolbtrammet Mefmeafoy, the
ead and Chief of that Province, come to meet us;
id declaring to the Bafhaw, after the moft folemn
Tanner, that he had no Hand in the Rebellion, as.
2 underitood, had been bafely and malicioufly.ru-
soured of him, the Rebels having made Ufe of his
lame for the better carrying on their wicked De-
ons, he .entreated that he would believe him inno-
sht, asin Keality he faid he was, having never
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made the leaft Advance that Way ; but, on the con-
trary, had done all in his Power to ‘prevent it, evem ©
to the extream Hazard of his Life ; therefore defired
he would not look upon him as an Enemy to his —
Country, but accept of the few Prefents he had’
brought him, with as good a Grace as they were of-
fered by him with good Will, and in all due Obe-
dience, being in Truth thofe of one of the moft loyal,
moft dutiful and obedient of his Majefty’s SubjeGs.
Thefe Prefents being fomewhat confiderable, as four
very fine Horfes and Furnitures, feveral Zurbees, or
Turbants, with a handfome Purfe of Gold .to ufher
them in, the Bafhaw had not the Heart to refufe : He
likewife entreated the Bafhaw to fuffer him to fend in
Provifion for the Army, which was alfo complied —
with, and plentifully performed during our Stay —
there, with every Thing elfe in Conformity to our ©
Demands. After a few Days we rofe and marched ©
thence feven Leagues further, along the Foot of the
Mountain, and pitched our Tents in the Evening at
Emfseda, keeping ourfelves under Arms for the firtt
Part of the Night in great Silence, and about Mid-
night (drawing out fix thoufand Men, our whole ~
* Number being eight thoufand, leaving the other two
thoufand to feed and keep fafeour Horfes) wemarched
on Foot up the Mountain where we had an Account _
many of the Malecontents had fheltered themfelves 5 : a
which being very woody, fteep and craggy, our —
Horfes could have been of no Service to us, but rather
a Hindérance, and would have been a Means of ex-
pofing us to be taken off feparate from each other by
the Enemy in their lurking Places, before we could —
difcover them.
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Tuts being the Month of February, wet, very
cold, and the Nights pretty long, the Bafhaw march-
ing at our Head, we got under the Walls of a Caftle
called the Caftle of Elnah Embelide, where we lay
clofe, with ftriét Silence and undifcovered, till Sun-
rifing, when we faw feveral Herdfmen and Shepherds
coming forth with their Cattle, they being always at
Night fecured within, from the frequent Incurfions
of the Mountaineer Adzors, and for Fear of Lyons,
Tygers, Wolves and Jackalls, the Sheep ftanding in
as much Danger from the latter, as they do from the
Wolves, who are, in their voracious Nature, fufi-
ciently imitated by the Jackalls, of which there are
vaft Numbers in Baréary 3 and though I had heard
by feveral People in England that they were inno-
cent, though fubtle Creatures, and ferved only for
procuring Prey for the Lyon, by hunting before him,
thereby to keep themfelves in his Favour, and from
his Paws, yet have I often feen them lay hold of an
innocent Sheep, and in a Moment tear him in Pieces,
and have very often fhot them for their Pains, and eat
of them into the Bargain,
On thefe Herdfmen’s difcovering us, they inftantly
alarmed the Caftle, and no Doubt to the great Sur-
prize of thofe within, more efpecially when they faw
us fo near their Walls, furrounding them, fo as they
might not, in any Probability, hope for Efcape ; yet
did they prepare for Defence, and fired upon us with-
Small Arms very brifkly, but Cannon they had none,
Ho more than ourfelves, killing in all but three of our
Men, we having got ourfelves fo clofe under their
Walls, that they could not bring their Shot to bear
on us, we calling to them, Zbat in cafe they any
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donger refifted, and did not direétly deliver vs the Gaps
rifon into our Hands, we would put every one of them
tothe Sword : To which we not receiving fuch fa-
tisfactory Anfwer as we expected, and having by
that Time almoft finifhed three feveral Mines +at the
Foot of the Caftle Wall, and of which thofe within
were not the leaft apprized, we fired them all about
one and the fame ‘Time, making fuch Breaches as’
were wide enough tor twenty Men to enter in a Breaft
at each, and immediately began to pour them in ;
upon which the Rebels, being in a terrible Fright,
fubmitted to Mercy, crying out for Quarter, and
humbly on their Knees imploring Pardon for them-
felves and Families, afluring us, That on receiving
Clemency, they would make their future Behavisur ap-
pear to be no lefs deferving of the Emperer’s Favour
than thofe of the moft obfervant of his Subjetts, al-
edging, that they had been led aftray by thofe higher up
in the Mountain, and whom, had they not come inte
Jfeeming Meafures with, wauld then have deftroyed them
go a Man; therefore, faid they, revenge yourfelves on
them, and you fhall foon fee that we will not be back-
ward with our Affiftance to fubdue them, Notwith-
flanding thisSubmiffion, we kill’d eighteen of them,
and among it them the Governor’s Brother, and his
Brother’s Son, whofe Heads were cut off by the
Bafhaw’s own Hand, the latter being firft oblig’d to
drag that of his Father’s round the Army by a Rope
fixed about his Neck, and to fuffer a moft cruel
Scourging from moft of them, and then both their
Heads, with the Edge of the Bafhaw’s Sword, were
fet upon the Caftle Gate: at which the Governor,
_(as having five Sons of his own) was, no Doubt, ina
moft grievous Agony, and kept ftill on his Knees, de-
: firing the Bafhaw to believe him innocent, and by
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‘horrid and repeated Imprecations of it, declaring that
Be had no Hand in that Rebellion, and that his being
there was more by Compulfion than Inclination, and
that he hoped that he could not be accounted fo ttu-
pid as not to fuppofe the Emperor would foon , make:
Reprizals on them, and that notwithftanding he had:
been fo unhappy to father the fictitious Name of Go-
‘Vernor, Ge. yet he moft humbly “hoped. that the’
Bathaw would believe him, and permit him: to ufe*
his utmoft Efforts by Way of reducing the Remain-
‘der of the Rebels, who had:compelled: him to fo un=
dutiful a Behaviour, and whereby he might-not only’
iin fome Meafure make his: Royal. Mafter Compen{a-
‘tion, but our future Proceediugs, by far lefs hazar-
-dous, for that he would dire&tly fend his Meflengers:
‘fo acquaint them with his own prefent Condition ;
and in cafe they any longer perfifted im their Rebel-
Hon, and did not direétly come in, and with then»
ibring into. him their refpe@tive Tributes, he was
eady to: {pend the laft Drop of his Blood in fubduing
them: Then the Bafhaw erder’d him off his Knees,,
and after fome fhort private Conference, their Coun-
kenances feemed to be on both Sides more calm and
ferene ; and 2 general Pardon was, to the general
Joy, proclaimed: On which many came in foon
after with their Prefents and Arrears,.as indeed did
all in thofe Parts, faving only four little Towns,
which might contain -in them- about four thoufand
Men that bore Arms, lying on or very nigh the Top
of the Mountain, then covered with Snow, and very
dificult to getup, which retarded our March fixteen.
Pays; when there falling a very great Flood of .
Rain, which wafhing the Snow down the Mountain,
‘0 that there appeared fome. Likelihood of our being
ible to get up it, though with great Difficulty, we
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departed from the Cattle of Ehiah Embelide, taking
with us the Governor, and marched (or rather indeed
climbed) up as fait as we could, and got to the firft
of the ‘Towns that Evening, very fufficiently tired 5
however, we foon entered, but found it quite de-
folate, the Inhabitants having all retired into the next
Town, at about half a Mile’s Diftance ; which, as
their Neighbours were joined with them, was no
Doubt of more Strength and Security; but the
Darknefs of the Night coming on apace, the Ba-
fhaw was determined not to attack them til the:
next Morning ; however, we carried. off all. we
could find here, fet the Village on Fires and retired:
to fome Diftance, where we fettled for the Night
in an open Camp: About Sun rifing we took one
ef their Spies, who had that Night been out upon
the Scout, and brought -him before the Bafhaw,
who, after threatening to cut off his Head, told .
him, That in cafe be would go direétly into the Tawny,
and on his Honour immediately return to him with their
Anfwer if they intended to deliver up the Town with-
out Refiffance, or nat, he would give him.bis Life x
On which, and the Jate Governor of Ehiah Emme
belide’s alfo vouching for the Bafhaw’s Performance
of his Promife, he went in and foon returned with
an Anfwer to his Mefiage, and to challenge his,
Pardon, telling them, That the Inhabitants weuld-
wot on any Terms furrender, but were refalved. to
fight it out, even to the lafi Man, which (faid be), 4
they told me they had before fignified to the Governor of —
Ehiah Embelide, by Way of Anfwer to, bis Adefage
relating to their coming in with their Arrears; that —
be was a daftardly Fellow, and if he fosuld happen to —
fall into their Hands, he fhould be the. firs? Sacrifice.
joibeir Rage. ‘The Bathaw finding what he had to
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“ truft to, ordered us dire@ly to cut down and bind up
a great Quantity of large Faggots, or Bavins 3 whichs
as I was then altogether a Novice in Affairs of that
Nature, I really thought were for no other Ufe than.
burning : However, I foon faw my Ignorance therein,
and thought them to be a toletable Safe-guard from
the Shot of the Enemy, every other Man taking one
of them, and carrying it lengthways before him and
his Comrade, who was clofe at his Back : Aidvancing:
after this Manner, till we got within half Muikee
‘Shot of their Walls ; and notwithttanding they kept-
a continual Firing from the Walls of the Town
upon us, yet did we not receive any Damage thereby,.
but intrenched ourfelves Breaft hizh in a very little
Time. About’a Dozen of our beft Miners, and an:
Engineer, advanced with their Pick-Axes and other”
neceflary Implements, even clofe under their Walls,.
_and immediately fell to Work to undermine them?
When they were to be relieved, they retired going
backward, carrying their Bavins next their Faces;
and a frefh Set, on’ the contrary, advancing, took:
their Pott: Inthe mean Time the reft of us kept a’
‘continual Fire, fo that the Enemy did not fo much as
dare to peep at thofe Places of the Walls where our:
People were carrying on their Mines at the Bottom 5
and though we were three Days before we had
finifhed them to our Engineers Minds, (there being
in all three) yet did they never attempt once to fally
forth, but fuffered us to blow them up to our Satif=
-faGtion, making fuch Breaches, as we entered all our
Men at ina very little’ Time ; and in three Hours
(during: which there was'on both Sides very bloody
Work ) we put all of them (the Women and Chile
dren under ten Years: of Age, and the Man that
carried in the Bafhaw’s Meflage,. only excepted) to
: Ge FERS the
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the Sword ; and after plundering and demolifhing the
«
Houfes and "Walls, and fetting all we could not carry
away on Fire, we fat down ike one of the other
two, which we found to be alfo joined by their Neigh-
bours, and offiring the like Refiftance but they did
not refift longer than three Hours: Notwithftanding,
we did not fpare them, but cut them off alfo to a
Man ; and after plundering, demolifhing, and burn-
ing this and their other deferted Town, which was
the laft of the four, we, with our Plunder of all
Kinds» as Money, Corn, Butter, Honey, Raifins,
Almonds, and every Thing elfe of Value, got to
our Trenches, where we foon found our Error, in fo
haftily deftroying their Houfes ;, for notwithftanding
the Weather was-extreany cold, yet we were oblig’d,
on Account of our wounded Men, to remain there
for three Days, and then marched down to the Caftle
of Ehiah Embelide, having with us all their Catie,,
and our wounded Men carried in Hand-Barrows...
We refted there three Days, looking over our Booty
and receiving feveral others of the Rebels, who,
came in there: We then fell down into our Camp,
which we found unmolefted, having ftill with us all
the Wounded, and feveral Surgeons to attend them 3;
and here we refted eighteen Days, during. which,
many others came into us with their refpective Pre-
fents and Arrears: We rofe hence with our whole
Army, and. marched along the Foot of the Moun-
tain, for about feven Leagues, to Moumalcarroe, a
very large Houfe, in Nature of a Caftle, fituate on
a River, commanded by Azadmon/or Pcie ough. who
was at our Approach ready with his Prefents and Ar-
rears, and received us in a moft friendly Manner,
declaring he had no Hand in_ the Rebellion, main-.
taining our Army three Days, and bringing us in
every
Ewe F
every Day twice as much Provifior as we could all
eat; and fuch Part of the Flefhas we could not
then difpence with, war, after cutting it into finall
long Pieces of about two Fingers Breadth, falted and
laid on our Camels, as we travelled, expofed to the
| Wind and Sum, till it was thereby fufficiently hard-
ened, which would remain good for a whole Year.
We having fome Reafons to believe him: innocent,
over and above this his fo bountiful Hofpitality, on
Promife of his future Obedience and A fiiftance,. the
Bafhaw pardoned him, and marched on to Eminftae
nud, a Caftle about two Leagues Diftance from
thence 5 where having received a like SatisfaCtion,
he went on to ALmtugoe, feven Leagues farther,
where they alfo came in to him with their Prefents
and Arrears ; and here we again pitched our Tents, |
and fettled our Camp for fix Weeks, during which
Time all that Province, fome by foul and others by
fair Means, came in alfo, and followed: the Example
of their Neighbours. From Aontugoe we marched
to Ltawaddeel, one Day’s journey ; and thence, the
hext Day, to Sefago/ilee, a very high Mountain 3 the
next to Zammanert, fubduing all as we went: Set-
itling our Camp: here, till all were likewife brought
iunder Obedience, we having firft killed vaft Num-
| bers of them, and before our Departnre thence hung
‘up at leaft fix hundred Heads, asa future Terror «
|Here turning back, we, after three Days March of
cabout feven Leacues a Day, got to Shadamah, a very.
large plentiful Province, where we continued till ai}
‘were in like Manner, through like Means, brought
runder the Emperor’s Subjection ; which was the Jatt
sand finifhing. Stroke of this onr fo long and dan-
ygerous Expedition, in which we loft at the leaft fif-
teen hundred of our Men, and amongft them fixty
& | of
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‘of my fmall Number; myfelf, I thank God, (tho’
I had my Cloaths fhot through im feveral Places)
efcaping unwounded.
Wr now began our March for Mabie, where ©
we fafely arrived at the End of four Days, having
with us all our. Baggage, the greateft Part of cur
Beoty, and three ‘of the chief Men out of eve ry
Province, to be carried with us to Mequinezy to give
an Account to the Emperor of their Behaviour in
the late Rebellion, the Bafhaw and the Remains of
his People encamping again without the Walls of |
the City, Belearge and myfelf, with the Remains of:
eur’s, beng again ordered to march’ in ; and we
were by the Citizens moft courteoufly entertained,.
felling our Shares of the Booty, viz. Bullocks and
Sheep i in vatt Numbers, for what any would give us 3:
I having myfelf, with feveral others in Partnerfhip,._
fold there and at feveral’ other Places before on the
Road, four hundred Sheep, for fo fmall'a Price asa:
Blankeel each, (which is T'wo-pence) and thought: |
ourfelves- well-off ;- for what could we have done
with them, being obliged to take that or nothing ?-
befides,. we were glad : at any Rate to get rid of. the
very great Trouble of driving them. ,
Now am again in the City of Morocco; of which,.
IT do not doubt, but it may be expected that I fhould §
give a particular Defcription, and an Account of all
its Curiofities ; which I could readily,.and would as«
willingly do, did Inot think it altogether mnconkitental
with my main Point, and would enlarge my Hiftory
to very little Purpofe, by only repeating what has ©
bechall ey
gavit
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been, without Doubt, before made publick ; theres
fore I fhali, by Way of Digreffion, mention only”
two of the moift agreeable Curiofities, which my own.
Fancy was ftruck with, the one within, and the
other without the Walls, and refer my Readers for
the reft to the, feveral Books already printed; and:
firft, of that within the Walls, which was four
golden Globes of a large Size and Value, fixed on
the Top of the Tower of the Emperor’s Palace, and:
which, according to common Fame, were fet up many’
hundred Years.ago, on the following Oceafion :
Lutta Ovpan, Daughter and Widow to:
two of their anticnt Emperors, happened one Day
to fee in a Woman’s Baiket fome very tempting
Peaches, and being at the fame Time with Child,.
ithe took one of them, and after biting off a fmall:
| Part of it, and putting the Remainder into the Bafket
; again, fhe went away, faying, She had but jup nicked
ithe Time ; of which fome ef the By-fanders taking
Notice, and pondering thereon, it foon canie into.
their Minds, that it muft be very near the Time of
the Commencement of their Remadam, which is a.
very ftritt Faft they obferve every twelfth Moon;
pand during which, if any are known. to eat or drink.
ifrom an Hour before the Breaking: of the Day, till
ithe Appearance of the Stars, it is Death by their
Law ; and they are not only obliged to abftain: from
-all Manner of Food, but likewife from finoaking,
wafhing their Mouths, taking Snuff, frnelling Per-
fumes, or converfing with Women,
_ Tose whoare obliged to travel, may drink a
little Water ; and fuch as are fick, may borrow a
) gee few
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few Days of their Prophet ; ; but they muft, and do
repay punctually, when they recover Sh eaeth; In
the ‘Towns they run about the Streets, and wake alf
thofe People they think are afleep, that they may
eat, and fo be the better able to fupport themfelves
in the Day; they rife three or four Times in the
Night, and fleep again. Such as are Libertine, and
ufed to drink Wine, abitain. from it at this “Time..
-Tr is ufual in the Towns, every Evening, whet
the Faft of that Day is ended, for a Trumpet to be
founded from the Cattle, to give Notice of it; be~
fore which Time itis pleafant to fee the Pofture of
the Moors, one holding a Pipe ready fill’d, while he:
impatiently expects the haha of the Tru impet; ano
ther with a Difh of Cufcaffooe before him, ready to _
run his Hand in ;. fome got clofe to the Fountains, to
Be the firft that thall drink. On the Eve of their
Lent, they make great Rejoicing, fhouting and re~
_ peating the Name of GOD, and wee for the Ap=
- pearance of the Moon, at which they fire their Muf-
Kets, then fall to fying their Prayers, the Emperor
himfelf fometimes at their Head ; who, ‘to perfuade’
the People of his great Regard for Religion, keeps
this Faft four Months every 7 Year; but they are Qe.
bliged to obferve it only during that one Moon.
Tue poor longing Queen was, by a’ due Enquiry
into the Moon’s Age, found to have tran{greffed in it
by three Hours, and immediate Sentence was pafied
upon her, which put her under a grievous Agony, as
not knowing (though fhe was exceeding rich) how
to get off ; ‘though at the laft (on her promifing to
} fet
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fet up thofe Balls, and to build four feveral Btidges
over two very rapid Rivers, viz, three on Adurbia,
and one on Wadlabbid, wherein abundance of Peo-
ple had been before drowned, in their attempting to
- erofs over) fhe obtained a Pardon ; and thefe Pro-
mifes were inher Life time accordingly performed,
together. with feveral large Buildings, and Donations
for Schools, Alms-Houfes, &¢. over and above her
very, extraordinary and chargeable Obligation.
TueEseE four Globes are, by Computation, feven
hundred Pounds, Barbary Weight, each Pound con-
fifting of twenty-four Ounces, which make in all
1050 Pounds Engli/b ; and frequent Attempts had
been made to take them away, but. without Suc-
'cefs ; for, as the Notion ran, any attempting i¢
were foon glad to defift from it, they being af-
frightened, and efpecially at their near Approach to
them, ina very ftrange and furprizing Manner, and
- feized with an extraordinary Faintnefs and Trembling,
hearing at the fame Time a great rumbling Noife,
like as if the whole Fabrick was tumbling down about
their Ears fo that, in great Confufion, they all re-
turned fafter than they advanced. ;
Tus did I often hear, yet had Ia very ftrong
Itching to try the Truth of it 5 and to gratify my
Curiofity, I one Night (having before communicated
my Intentions to two of my Men, and pertuaded.
them to go with me, and provided myfelf with
Candles, Flint, Steel and Tinder) entered the Foot
of the Tower, lighted my Candles, and advanced
with my Comsades clofe at my Heels, till Thad
HAS ae gained
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gained at leaft two thirds of the Height, I fill going
on; when really, to my Seeming, I both felt and —
heard fuch a difmal rumbling Norfe, and Shaking of
the Tower, (my Lights, at that very Inftant, quite
going out)as I thought far furpafled that of common
Fame 3 yet was J refolved to proceed, and called
to my Comrades to be of good Courage; but having
_ ho Anfwer from them, Ifoon found they had left
me in the Lurch ; upon which, falling into a very
great Sweat, I went back alfo, and found them at
the Bottom in a terrible Condition : And fo ended my
mad Project ; and which was, I think, a very mad
one indeed, for had I obtained the Globes, in what —
could it have bettered my deplorable Condition, be- |
ing always obliged to follow the Emperor’s Pleafure,
and with whom it was a moft fufficient }Crime to be
rich ; And fo much for my foolifh Attempt on the »
Golden Globes,
WuatT I was moft delighted with, without the
Walls of Méorocco, wasa moft curious and fpacious
Garden for the King’s Pleafure, when he came to
that -City, it being by far the fineft of all [ had ever
. feen before, being kept in the moft exquifite Manner,
as to its curious and regular Walks and Arbours,
and laid out with large Colleétions of moft Kinds of-
Fruits and Flower’, the Fruit-Trees being very
large, and dreffed ans pruned in a very elegant Mane —
ner; fo that their Wood, and efpecially that of
their Orange-Trees, was divi) in a profperous Con-
dition, almoft ever green, blooming and bearing
Fruit. In this Garden I faw the Tronk-of:an ‘old
Tree, (which I was told was that of a very large
Orange - Tree) with great fpreading, Branches 3
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eee
which, when in its Profperity, was the Death of
Muley Archid, the Emperor’s Brother, (who, about
feven Years before, killed Muley Emhamet, his elder
Brother, with his own Hand, to make Way for him-
felf to the Empire :) He being one Day in this Gar-
den on Horfeback, and his Horfe running fuddenly
eut with him, fo that he could by no Means ftop
him, carried him under this Tree, ina Moment ap-
pearing on the other Side, without his Rider ; and
notwithftanding the quick Approach. of his Atten-
-dants, they found him quite dead, hanging by his
Head in a forked Limb ; on which Account there
was, no Doubt, no little Hurry all over the Empire,
he being reckoned one of the moft famous Conque= ~
rors in thofe Parts, having made himfelf Mafter, by
the Sword, of the Kingdoms of Tafilet; Fez, Mo-
_ rocco. and Sus , and by this Means the old Tyrant
(whom I was obliged to ferve) cameto the Throne:
However, this Accident was by all reckoned a juft
Judgment. r
_ AND now being obliged to proceed immediately
for Mequinez I thall, after fo long a Digreffion,
which is chiefly indeed from Hearfay, return to my
own Story, and be upon the Spur with the Tribute
taken upon our late Expedition, together with that
for-one Year, for the City of AZorocco; and which
being fomewhat extraordinary, I think it may not be
amifs to mention the Particulars of it, whereby the
Reader may in fome Meafure guefs at the Richnefs of
the Inhabitants. !
Ir confiitted firft of 140 Quintals, or Bars
bary Hundreds of Silver Coin ; fecondly, 204 fine
iden F2 ‘ Hborles,
(2s apo. 4
Horfes, the latter four being (over and above their
wonted and required Number) a voluntarily Prefent
to the Emperor, were the fineft that could be got,
with Saddles, Bridles, &c. altogether as finely-fet off,
and efpecially that for his own riding, the Saddle be-
ing behind and before well ftrengthened with Plates of
Gold, and curioufly inlaid with many very valuable
Jewels: the Stirrups of beaten Gold, and the Bridle
and other Accoutrements. in every Point fuitable,
with a fine Scimiter and crooked Knife, the Hilts :
Scabbard and Sheath alfo very rich, hanged to the
Saddle. by Gold Chains; Thirdly, 200 Mules, with
Pads on their Backs, compleatly fitted with Stirrups,
and their Bedies covered all over with Scarlet Cloth:
Fourthly, 200 Blacks, Males and Females, a like
Number: Fifthly 800 Quintals of Gunpowder ; |
sixthly, 4000 Gun Stocks: Seventhly, 800 Tur-
rahs of fine drefled Goat Skins, each Turrah confift-
ing of fix Skins : Eightly 400 Quintals of Butter 5 _
Minthly, 400 ditto of Honey: Tenth, 400 ditto
of Oyl: Eleventh, 2000 Gun Locks: Twelfth,
2000 Sword Blades : Thirteenth, 2000 Powder
Horns : Fourteenth, 60 Quintals of Elhennah, or
Black Grafs, the fame Sort of that my Dutchefs’s
Hands and Feet were difcoloured with at the Time
of our precipitate Marriage; and Fifteenth 400
Quintals of Dates. All which being «packed up, the -
Muleteers proceeded with the Caravan, and we with
the Army.as a Convoy, and got the firft Day. to the
River Tenfieft, about five Leagues; the fecond Day
to Ceedearhal, feven Leagues ; the third to the Ri-
ver Teffent, fourth to Baahgobah, fifth to the River
Dernoe, fixth to Tedlah, feventh to Ceedelle Feellelle, —
eighth to Lendrab, a very fertile and large Plain, fur-
rounded by yaft mountainous Woods: And here
many
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fhany of the Emperor’s Cows (though no Doubt it
is a very dangerous Place for Cattle, on Account of
the very great Number of Savage Beafts lurking
hereabouts) are generally kept; the ninth to the Ri-
ver Gregrab, the Couhtry alfo very woody, and
plentifully ftored with Lyons, and I think the boldeft
1 ever faw, coming that Night even into our Camp,
making a hideous and terrible Noife, killing two. of
our Horfes, and eating them all up before Day-break;
the tenth tothe Caftle of Agoory, thort of Afeguinez
about fix Leagues, travelling at the Rate of about
feven Leagues a Day ; and the eleventh we came
into Meguinez in good Seafon, and fecured all the
Effects. of the Carravan within the Walls of the
Emperor’s: Palace; and afcer the Bafhaw had ac-
quainted the Emperor with our Procceedings, and
given him a particular Account of the Behaviour of
the feveral Prifoners, we were all (after making a
plentiful Supper) ordered for that Night to Reft.
THe next Morning, about Eight o’Clock, the
Emperor ordered the Bafhaw to bring the feveral
Prifoners into the Yard before him, when myfelf
and Belearge, by Command of the Bafhaw, imme-
diately guarded them in: The old Tyrant looking
-at them very furioufly, (after afking them a few
Queftions) told them, in an angry Tone, That they.
were infolent Traitors, and they foould foon reap the
Fruits of their late Rebellion ; then ordered three of
the moft notorious of them to ftand with their Backs
pretty nigh the Wall ; which the Victims obeying,
the Executioner was ordered, on the Emperor’s Sig-
nal, tocut off their Heads, which (the Signal being
- given) he inftantly did at two Strekes, two of them
3 being
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being cleanly fevered at one: Then the Emperor or-
dered the reft ot them to be removed to fome further
Diitance ; and though, no Doubt, they were every
Moment expecting to fhare in the fame Fate with
their Neighbours, yet did the Emperor, on their
promifing him to behave bettter for the future, (con-
trary to their own and every other Body’s Expecta- -
tion then prefent) pardon them, though with this
ReftriGion, Never more toreturn to their “old refpective
Places of Abode, but to refide at thofe which fhould be
by him allotted for them; then Belearge and myfelf
recelving twenty-five Ducats each, and our Men fix,
were ordered to depart, and carry off with us the
Prifoners ; who after be ing ftigmatized or branded
with ahot Iron in their Forebeads, were like Va-
grants put the next Day out of the City, every one.
to enquire after the Place of -his Allotment ; and
what became of them after, I never heard,
THE Execution of thefe three Captives was per-
formed by the Hands of an Exeter Man, whofe Sirs
name I have forgot, though I very well remember his
~Chriftian one was Abfalam, and -that he often told
me he-was by Trade a Butcher; and he was, no
Doubt, a very bold Man, for before the Execution ~
the Bafhaw offering him his Sword, he fmiling told
him, That he thought bis own to be ltvieeshien as goed,
which he foould foon fee ; and which, indeed, Was as
foon made appear ; he further adding, That bad it not
been of very excellent Temper, it could not have per-
formed what he had hitherto done with it.
Now are Budadnee and myfelf-again ordered into
the Palace, and by the Rerperor commanded to lay
open
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open feveral-of the Prefents to his Views and. after
taking particular Notice of them, and ordering alfo
for the fine Horfes, €&c. to be brought forth, he faid,
Thefe Dogs are certainly very rich ; but what was
this in Comparifon of what they had yet behind, and
that this was no more than their giving bim a {mall
Part of what was before bis own ; therefore, if they
did not mend their Manners, by fending him more for
the future, he would fend his Meffengers to fetch ity
with their Heads into the Bargain ————Here we
may fee the dangerous Confequence of ARBITRARY
Power, and thank GOD that we are governed by
fuch wholefome Laws, as are thofe of this happy Na-
tion ; whereby every one is allowed fair Tryal im
Matters of Life and Death, as well as like Equity
in the Recovery and keeping their own ;. whereas,
thofe unhappy People who. are fubjec to Arbitrary
Tyrants, are To-day rich, and great, To-morrow
Beggars, often lofing their Lives with their Eftatesy
all without being heard, or any daring to enquire for
why or wherefore.
Ir a poor Man in Barbary gets but a Pair of Oxen
to plow, he would not only be liable to be robbed of
them by the next little mercenary Governor, but
forced to fell his Corn, to pay an arbitrary. ‘Tribute.
For which Reafon the Land has no Proprietor above
two or three Leagues round a Town ; and if you:
chance to fpie two or three fmall Cottages, you may
be fure they belong to fome Alcayde, and the poor
People that live in them to till the Ground, are his
Servants, and, like the Cattle, receive no other Re-
compence for their Labour, but the wretched Pro-
vender they eat. |
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‘Tut Emperor and his Alcaydes sighed all
Trade in the Country, by robbing fuch as have any
Reputation for Riches : tor which Reafon the. AZors
take it for a Token that you defign them Harm, if
you fay they are rich ; and it is believed, that there
are abundance of rabians who have concealed
Eftates,. (for this Country, fifty. or fixtv Years. ago,
was extraordinary rich) and yet appear ‘fo miferable,
that they have nothing but an Alhague to cover
them, which ferves for Shirt, Drawers, Coat, Cloak, ~
Bed, and every Thing: But thofe who liv’d in
‘Towns, were prefently ruined. I have heard that.
the People of Tetuan were very confiderable Tra-
cers, and fome of them left off Bufinefs, when the
Emperor came to the Throne, thinking by that
Means to go off with what they had got, and be.
guiet ; but onthe contrary, being once taxed for
People of Subftance, the fame continued till the For-
tunes they had got were exhaufted, and nothing
coming in, they are at prefent reduced to extream |
Want, and feveral of them bayve been fhewn without .
a Bit of Bread ; for all thofe who are in any Condi-
tion,.are fuch . continued to trade, becaufe they had
at that Time no other Means of scones
In 1699, the ashe of f Fes fent to a Merchune
to give him a hundred Ducats for the Tribute:
He having before got off fora great deal lefs, went
to excufe himfelf ; upon which he fent for four
or five Negroes, and ordered them to torment
that Man, till he gave them @ thoufand ; which he
paid, after being firipped and left all Day in the Sun,
hung up by the Thumbs, and fome other artful
Cruelties ; and the bipadaaen of all: the Country is
| . fuch,
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fuch, that any Pretence whatfoever will ferve’ the
, Aleaydes to rob and plunder their People Thrice
and four Times happy the Inhabitants of the Britiih
Ifles : Here every Man enjoys what is his own wiih.
the moft undifiurbed Security, and withaut any Pear
of having it ravifbed from him by the Hand of ~
Power: Here no haughty Kine dares to lay bis,
Hand, without the Leave of the Laws, on the meane/t
of his Subjet?s; much lefs doom them to unjuft and
cruel Deaths. Thankful, daily thankful ought we to
beto Heaven, for placing us where the ineftimable
- Bleffing of Liberty fill exifis; and how jealous ought
we to be of it, and how careful that we never in the
leaft contribute to sverthraw the noble Fabrick of Bri-
tifh Liberty, dy any imprudent or mercenary Actions of
Our OWite
Anv now for our Departure for our refpective
Garrifons again; for which (after. refrefhing our-
-felves, and recruiting our Men) Belearge and myfelf
departed, leaving @Zequinez with our full Numbers,
and arrived at Tamnfnab, (by the fame Road, and
halting at the fame Places, as we did-at our firlt go-
ing thither) after the Abfence of feven Months,
without any Thing particular happening on the Road
worthy my Notice. On our Approach to the Walls
of the Caftle, all the Women, and feveral of the
Men, came forth to meet us ; which you may ima-
gine to be a Meeting both of a great deal of Joy
and Lamentation amongft the Fair Sex ; thofe who
met their Hufbands rejoicing, and thofe who did not
behaving like other Widows on fuch-like Occafions :
However, I remember that I entered very merrily
with my Girl, infomnuch that I had forgot (as know-
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ing her to be with Child before our Departure) to
afk her if-it wasa Boy or a Girl, though indeed,
being fettled within, this was my firft Queftion ; to
which fhe fmiling, anfwered me, That fhe had had,
about fix Weeks before, a Daughters. but that a cer-
tain Woman had taken it from her : At which (as not.
fo foon feeing through the Cunning of the Wench).
I was very much enraged, when the cunning Gyply
ordered the Child-to be brought ints declaring the
‘Thief te-be the Midwife ; at which I was again pa-
cified, and not alittle pleafed with the Joke, laugh-
ing and embracing the Child very heartily.
Now are fome merry, and fome feemingly fad,
for a Day or two’; after which we lived again very
comfortably together, Belearge and his People, with:
fixty of mine, being departed for their refpective
Gartifons ; where, no Doubt,. they. were. received
with the like Joy, mixed with Lamentations.
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Fed
Now are we again at Liberty to divert ourfelves,.
fpending the beft Part of our Time in fhooting and
hunting in the Woods, as indeed we fpent a great
deal of itthat Way before our fetting forth on our
late Expecition.; but I being in fuch a Hurry to
join the Bafhaw at AZorocco, | did not then ftay to
mention any Thing of it ; though here I fhall not
forget to tell you, that we ufed to fpend then, as
well as now, ufually four Days in the Week. at that
Employment, here being vaft Plenty of Game, as
Pheafants, Partridges, Hares and Jackalls : And tho’
our Sport was attended with great Danger, on. Ac-
count of the vait Pannbers of wild Beafts, even to
the:
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the extream Hazard of our Lives, (on which Ac-
count fome may think the Game we got, too dearly
bought) yet did not we fo, as ftill thinking the Profit
to fufficiently compenfate the Danger, generally, I
fay, pafling therein four Days in every Week, and
with very good Succefs, killing vaft Numbers of all
Kinds, coming Home at Nights laden, and feidom or ©
never failing to refrefh ourfelves by a good Supper of
fuch as we liked beft, and to wafh them down with
a Cup of good Wine, for which we never wanted,
the Inhabitants of the Country round bringing us
in feveral Skins a Week, together with many other
Prefents, on Account of our deftroying the wild
Beafts, (for which Purpofe we fet every Saturday —
apart) the Inhabitants joining us with their Dogs,
Arms, &ce. and amongft us all we made a notable
Slaughter ; and at our Return Home at Night, we
never failed of three or four wild Porkers roafted
‘ whole, nor of a frefh Supply of Wine 5. which, tho’
two very prefumptuous Breaches of their Law. at
Mequinez, yet did we (as being all of other Nations,
and the Emperor winking at it) continue in it, flop-
ping the Mouth of the Pricft with a flowing Bowl,
though I could never bring him to eat Pork. ~
Berne now furrounded,asit were, with wild Beafts,
and Time upon my Hands, I fhall, by a fhort Di-
greflion, acquaint you by what Means any going the
Road about their lawful Occafions, may beft efbape
them ; and firft for the Tyger, which I take to be
by far the moft dangerous Creature, though not fo
terrible as the Lyon, he generally lying near the
Road Side on his Belly, with his Legs under him in
a proper Pofture for leaping, fo that he is on his
Prey
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Prey before itcan well avoid him, and which can
not be done at all, but by a due Obfervance of
_ what Iam about to tell you ; and, in the firft Place,
T hope you will allow it highly necefiary for Tra-
vellers in fuch Countries to carry their Eyes before
their Feet, whereby they may, before too nigh Ap-
proach, the better difcover the Enemy, and which, if
they do not, they may repent it when too late ;' and
having fo difcovered him, to fake their Eyes inftantly
off him, and continue to walk on their Road, and if
he is not very hungry, they are quite fafe ; whereas,
on the contrary, fhould they happen to make the
leaft Stand, and ftare him in the Face, he leaps di-
reCtly at them, and it isa hundred to one if they.
efcape with Life : The Lyon, on theo contraryy
fhews himfelf boldly, fitting on his Breech with a -
very four Look in the Road, about twenty or thirty
Paces before Travellers ;- and in this Cafe, infead
of walking on, and keeping their Eyes off him, they
muft ftand ftill, and ftare him full in the Face, hol-
lowing at siieh and abufing him all they can ; and
for fear he may not underftand Englifb, in the Lan-
guage (if they can) of the Country : Upon this
hollowing and ftaring at him, he gets him on his
Legs, and feverely Jafhing his Loins with his ‘Tail,
walks from them, roaring after a terrible Wennery.
and fits himfelf down again in the Road, about the
Diftance of a Mile or two, when both Traveller
and Lyon behave again in the fame Manner ; and
after proving them thus a third Time, the Lyon gee
nerally leaves them without Liteniuptioh: This I
know to be true, having been obliged feveral Times
in my ‘Travels through the Country to: make the
_ Experiment, and | which fhall hereafter have “itn
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fion more particularly to mention : But to return tq
my Hiftory :
AxsouT this Time, that is to fay after about four
Months enjoying ourfelves at Tamnfnah, there came
repeated. Accounts to the Emperor of the Revolt of .
a confiderable Number of his Subjects, in and about
Guzlan, a ftrong Town near the Defarts, diftant
from Adequinez about twenty-three Days March,
after the Rate of twelve Leagues a Day, they having
made very bold Incurfions into feveral Parts of that
Neighbourhood, plundering all who refufed to come
into like Meafures with them, deftroying the Carra-
van of the Laurbs, a wild Sort of People, coming
thither from the Coaft of the Defarts for Dates, kil-
ling fixteen of the Emperor’s Blacks fent there with
his Credentials to receive and bring to Meguinez their
accuftomed Tribute ; and, in fhort, having thrown
off all Obedience, ftood upon their Guard, fortifying
_ the Town with ftrong Walls, and putting into it
great Quantities of warlike Stores and Provifions,
On which fo frequent Alarms, the Emperor being
not a little enraged, immediately ordered an Army to
be in Readinefs to march againft them, and myfelf
and Belearge, with four hundred of our Men, to
haften dire&tly to Meguinez, to join them, where we
found the reft of the Army, making with us eighteen.
thoufand Horfe and eight thoufand Foot, ready to
march, fending before us four Pieces of heavy Can-
non, and two Mortars, to be forwarded over the
Mountains: at the Expence of the feveral Inhabitants,
and guarded with all the Foot ; and early on the
fifth Day after, we followed them with all the Horfe,
lodging the firft Night at Agaory, the Caltle at the
| Foot
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Foot of the Mountain, where we before finifhed our
Rout at, in our March from Morocco ; the fecond at
the River Gregrah ; the third at Zendrah ; the fourth
at Ceedcellee Feelellee; the fitth to Tedlah, where we
yefted two Days; the fixth at the River Dernor ;
feventh at Inefergoe ; eighth at Goahgobah ; ninth
at Ceedeaummorroh ; tenth to Ceedearhall ; eleventh
to Scakdegirgab, ona Mountain about fix Leagues
over ; twelfth at Tzmneough Gollowey, the Foot of
that Mountain, on the other. Side, and where we
were moft courteoufly entertained by Alcayde dbde/-
- tadick Elgolowey, a very good Man of the Sort, and
then Governor of that Part of the Country, he being
in very high Efteem with the Emperor, on Account
of his keeping his People under very ftriét Order,
and good Decorum ; thirteenth at) Waddelmella, a
very noted River, on Account of its winding itfelf
in a very intricate Manner between the Mountains,
we being obliged to crofs it:in one hundred and one
feveral Places, all in one and the fame Day ; the
fourteenth at Wour/zeffez, two or three {mall Vil-
lages alfo between the Mountains, commanded by
Alcayde Bauheffey Elverzeffey, who alfo behaved
very friendly to us; fifteenth at a-fmall Kiver called
Zouyet et Handore ; fixteenth at. Agadis, which is the —
Head of the River Draugh,:and. where we found ©
prodigious Quantities of Palm-Trees, with Dates in
PerfeCtion ; feventeenth at Zonyer Burnoofe ; eigh-
teenth at the Caftle of Tanzulin 3 nineteenth at the
Caftle of Yarhatter, commanded by A/uley Sherriffe,
one of the Emperor’s Sons, who was there waitin
for our coming, he being ordered by his Father to
join us with fixteen thoufand Foot ; and after refrefh-
- ing ourfelves there two Days, he accordingly. march’d
with them at our Head, our «whole Army being now
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forty-two thoufand ; the twentieth we lodged at
Taugabmadurt, in the Province of Swagtah ; the
twenty-firft at Fumuihungh ; the twenty-fecond at
Binney Zibbah, and the twenty-third, about Two of
the Clock in the Afternoon, we got to Guzlan, where
the. Malecontents bidding us welcome twice that
Night, wefoon found we had Work enough to do 5
for we had but juft Time to view the Situation of
their Garrifon, and by our Engineer’s Orders began
to work on our Trenches, before the Rebels fal-
~ Ved forth in Number about twelve thoufand, and
began dire€tly to fire upen us with Small Arms very
brifkly 3; which we as brifkly anfwering, drove them:
back, and fell to work upon our Trenches again 5
when, about Ten at Night, (they having Trenches
without, very near our’s, which we were ignorant
of) they gave us ona fudden fuch a fmart Volley, as
in a very little Time killed fix hundred of our Men,
and amongft them were eighty-feven of mine and
Belearge’s ; however, we gave them as fmart a Re-
turn, killing many of them, and driving the reft
quite Home in at their Gates, and Belearge and my-
- felf, with the Remains of our People followed them
as far as we could, fheltering ourfelves as clofe as
poffible at the Foot of their outer Wall, and keeping
ourfelves there in great Silence till Day-break ; when
our General feeing usthere, and that none of the
reft of the Troops bad followed us, he feemed to be
highly enraged with them, calling them Cowards,
and earneftly entreated our Engineers to think of
fome fafe and fpeedy Way for our Retreat, for that
fhould we attempt an open one, we muft in all Like
lihood be taken off all to a Man by the Shot of the
Rebels from their Walls ; therefore they, for the
better and. fafer facilitating our Retreat, ordered -
eau =
a. gee ea
be dirc€tly cut down a great Number of Palm and
Date Trees, with which was thrown up a Barricade
before a Body of Men, who carried on a Trench of ©
about fix Feet deep towards us, through the Sand,
ftill covering behind them with Trees, and Sand on
the Top; fo that they got clofe tous, and we all
fafely retired through this Trench by canes Clock
that Forenoon,
Tris Town of Guzlan Jay in a flat and fandy
Country, invironed with three feveral Walls, and
two Ditches, one within another, and without by
Millions of Date Trees, fpreading many Leagues ;
fo that we are now obliged to cut down many thou-
fand of them with the Fruit thereon, and to carry _
Matters on more difcreetly, and with lefs Rifque, we
having an undoubted Account, by feveral Prifoners,
of the Enemies Strength and refolute Defence, being
at the leaft eighteen thoufand ftrong, and well pro-
wided with Provifion Small Arms sib Ammunition ;
therefore the Engineers faid, lt wasan vain for our
Men to expofe theme elues to the Shot of the Rebels,
which they could Fire upon us all at once from their
three Several Walls, and therefore it would be mere
Madnefs in us to act any otherwife than upon the dew
fenfive, till we had raifed a Battery, in order for
the better bringing our Cannon to play upon them 5
which, the Sand fliding fo faft from underneath us,
was a cued while before it could be perfected to their _
Minds, we being firft obliged, to prevent the Sand
from running, to fecure it by driving ftrong Piles,
and clofe Butterefles thrown between the Piles andi it;
_ by which Means it was compleated, our Cannon
mounted, and all that Nae we kept a continual
firing
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firing from them, throwing many "Balls on theif
Walls, through all without making the leaft Breachy,
“they being built of Sand, ftrengthened with great
Limbs of Trees in fuch a Manner, that we had only
our Labour for our Pains; and the Rebels, wha
knew they could not receive any Damage from our
firing, flouted at us after a very joaking Manner ;
our Engineers perceiving their Mirth and Joaks, told
the General, That they would, in cafe hts Excellency
was fo pleafed, make them laugh on the wrong Side of
their Mouths ; which he confenting to, they threw
in a Couple of Bombs, which we foon found to take
off the Edge of their Laughter, and to terrify them
very much, they being followed by a great many
more 3 and which, no Doubt, did-them a great deal
of Damage, they being thereat fo highly provoked,
that they made feveral Sallies, though ftill driven
back again with great Lofs of Men on both Stiles 5
and though. I was generally in the thickeft of them,
yet I efcaped, thank God, hitherto unwounded,
though indeed I could not, by the next Day at Noon,
fay I was invulnerable ; at which Time a Aor be-
ing brought by fome of our Men, who had been out
a foraging, in our Camp with a Mule laden with
Bread, which the Rebels feeing from their Walls,
and knowing him to be one of their Party, were fo
highly exafperated at, that they made a fudden Sally;
and notwithitanding they were as warmly received
by us, yet did they kill of us fifteen hundred Men,
and wounded me’ by a Mufket Shot lodging in my
Right Thigh ; and which, though it was foon taken —
out by a German Surgeon, a Man of great Skill and _
Diligence, and I was moft carefully attended by him,
yet was it full forty Days before I was.again fit for
Action, and then I was again expofed to thofe hafty.
K
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Meffengers, fearce a Day pafling without fome of
them coming even fo near me as my Skin, and car-
rying my Cloaths off in- many Places, and ftill the
Danger increafing, as was every Day fufficiently ma-
nifeit, and ftill the far more bloody Part to come.
Awnp now our General, on his feeing the Male-
contents fo refolute, ordered our Engineers to confi- _
deron Ways and Means for carrying on a Mine un- ©
der their feveral Walls and Ditches, which they in-
ftantly undertook to do from the Trench already
brought Home for our Deliverance, and as quickly
fet about it ; however, it wasa long Time before it
could be performed, the Country being fo very loofe,
that we were obliged to bind it every Inch as we
went on by firm Timber and Planks on the Top, to
fupport it ; by which Means it was at laft perfected,
and carried fuecefsfully on under their feveral Walls
and Ditches, and at Jaft blown up with that Succefs
as to make fo wide a Breach as we all, ina very lit-
tle Time, entered Sword in Hand; and now there
was, between us and the Rebels, for the Space of
two Hours, bloody Work, when the Remnant of
them retired to one End of the Town; which they
had fo well fortified againtt our Fury, that we were
in a Manner elad to give out for eight Days, though
duringthis Time we often faluted them with our Can-
non and Bombs, and they us by frequent Sallies; and
which, I think, was by far more bold and noble ;:
but they being reduced toa very great Degree, and
feeing their longer Refiftance would be. in vain, their~ -
Provifions being quite fpent, and Ammunition very
fhort, they having unadvifedly left the. greateft Part
of it without, and waich was now in our Hands fo
that
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that they began, for want of it, to grow very faints-
and many of them dying of Hunger, the Remnant.
beat a Parly, humbly imploring the General, That
they might be [pared with their Lives, and promifing,.
on fuch Terms, to furrender and behave to the Em-
peror for the future with the moft dutiful Obedience 3
to which they were very reafonably anfwered, That.
Rebels reduced to fuch a Condition, after fo long and
bloody a Refiftance againft an Army of their Sovereign
Prince, and from whom they had thrown off all AHe~
glance, and ina moft infolent and contemptuous Manner
bidden him Defiance, were not in any wifeto be allowed.
to became their own Choofers; therefore they fooula
fubmit to the Will of the General, who would, no
Daubt, foon order fuch Punifhments to be inflidted upon
them as he was before ordered by his Father to da,.as=
cording to. the Merits of the Cafe.
Anp which, poor Wretches, they (beinz almoft
all ftarved, and miferably wounded) were obliged to.
fubmit to, and had all their Heads inftantly cut off
_ on the Spot; by which, I think, rather than to con-
tinue longer in fuch Mifery, (as being thereby at
ence freed from all their Calamity) they were by far
the better off. And fo ended this long and bloody
Rebellion, which took us up about feventeen Months,
and with the Lofs, on our Side, of fifteen: thoufand
of our Men, .
_AND now our General, as not having thought, in
the Heat of Blood, to preferve fome few of them
_ alive for. Triumph, orders vaft Numbers of Heads
-already cut off, to be carried in Lieu thereof to his
K 2 Father,
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Father, as a Prefent; though at laft they became
finking to that Degree, that he was obliged to be
contented with their Ears, which were all cut of
from their Heads, and put up with Salt into Barrels 3
for had we carried fo many ftinking Heads fo long a
Way, it muft certainly have very much annoyed the’
whole Army, and probably have bred an Infection
in it, | 3 | | |
Now are we obliged, on Account of our wounded
Men, to remain here fix Weeks longer; when we -
firuck our Tents, and (after burning the Town, and
demolifhing the Walls) departed with fome of them-
on Handbarrows, for AJeguinez, refting at Tarnatter
fix Days ; after which we proceeded, leaving AZuly
Sierriffe there with his People, marching back fo fait
as we could, all the Way diverting ourfelves by fhoet- |
ing and killing many Lyons, Tygers, and other very
dangerous wild Beafts, the Inhabitants all the Way
firiving to out do one another in all good Offices,
bringing us in every Day fufficient of all Kinds of
Provifions, both for ourfelves and Horfes; fo that we
fared very well, enjoying ourfelves with the Produce ~
of this plentiful Country, having every Day freth
Supplics of Bread, Butter, and Honey, with Abun-
dance of very good Beef and Mutton, Corn, Ge.
and all without Plunder or Rapine.
Tue Emperor, received.us, at our Arrival, very
courteoufly, and gave every Soldier twenty Ducats,
he being highly pleafed with the Conduct of A/uly
Sherriffe, who he faid had fent him his Reafons in -
Writing, for not fending him fo many Heads fo long
| a Way,
fo eit:
a Way, and therefore he was highly contented with
the Ears ; though not, as he faid, but that the Sight
of the Heads would have given ihn & ercat deal of
Pleafure ; yet, as they were ftinking, and might pof-
fibly prove of ill Confequence to the Army, he
thought them to be by far better left behind : He
then ordered the Barrels to be opened, and the’ Ears
to be turned out before him 3 and after looking at
them for fome Time, he with a pleafed, though
ftern Afpect, ordered them to be again put up and
laid by till another Rebellion, when he would (he
faid ) fend them to the Rebels asa Prefent ; however,
they were all at laft flrung on ope and hanged
along the Walls of the City. -
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Now are Belearge and myfelf ordered, after re-
cruiting our Men, (as having in this fo long and dan-
gerous ‘Expedition loft at leaft one half) to be again.
in Readinefs, as the next Day, to depart ‘for our re-
fpeCtive Garrifons, though this my old and very good
Friend was not deftin’d to do, he being, poor Man,
that Night poifoned by a Woman, as was generally
fuppofed, in, order to her getting his Poft for her
Hufband; though in this fhe was very much miftaken,
all his Men being put under my Command, and
all of them the next Day marched with me, getting
-fafe to my Caftle of Tam nfnah, after the Abfence of
_ twenty-one Months,
a
ihe after siti ad fettling my new Men in
Belearge’s old Garrifon of Stant, Tagain returned to
“my Wife, and ftaid with her and her Daughter in
Peace for four Months ; for as I was now fo far
inured
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inured in their bloody Civil Wars, I was feldom af-
ter. exempted from making one, and receiving many
Wounds therein ; nor hadI (during the Remainder of
the Reign of old AGaly Ismael, and the fhort Reigns
of Muly Hammet Deby, and [duly Abdemeleck, two
of their fucceeding Emperors, and until A7uly Abdal-
lah, who facotedad the Jaft of them, was a fecond.
- Time by the Black Army driven out) any Reft there- -
‘from, unlefs by thefe little Intervals.at Tama/nah,
and faine few others at our Garrifons, which I fhall.
take Notice of in their proper Place ; but being, as I
faid, now again with my Wife at Tamnfnah, I en- |
dea to make the Time as agreeable to my In-
clinations as I could poffibly, never failing to employ.
myfelf, according to our ufua! Days, in our old Sport
of fhooting and hunting, and ftill bringing in Plenty
of Game, and many Skins of good Wine; though
this, indeed, as I had now many new People: to deal
with, was under clofer Cover ; not but they might |
have been all foon brought to drink Wine, but being
feldom. or never faithful to their Promife, I was tho-
roughly refolved not to truft any of them in that
Way ;. and, indeed, I thought Wine too good for
the beft of them, and therefore: I was fully deter=
mined not to run any Hazard on that. Account. -
Now are my four Months expired, and I am
again ordered dire@tly, with two hundred of my
Men, to Adeguinez, where we were foon joined with
two hundred more, we being all Light Horfe ; and
we were immediately ordered by the Emperor to
proceed for Tafjilet, and thence, as a Convoy to the
Carravan, to the Caftle of Toa/, feventy Days Jour-
3 » ney
born, never returning to Court again,
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_ Journey inthe Deferts, to convoy and bring fafe to.
Mequinez, his wonted. Tribute from thofe. Parts.
We proceeded atcording to the following Route :
The firft Day to Bittitt 5 fecond to Suffrooe ; third
to the River Gregoe ; fourth to the Mountain Cecde- ©
_ bamfou ; fifth to the River Ad@elwea 5 fixth to Caffa<
wey, a Caftle commanded by Aluly Hajbam, a. near
Kinfman to the Emperor ; feventh to £mbst/gur-
van ; eighth to Buiny MJenteer 5 ninth to Cafjer fooky.
in the Province of Emdoughrah ; tenth to Fumul-
hungue, and the eleventh to the City of Tafflet,
where we refted four Days ; here being the Begin-
ning of the Deferts this Way, |
Tue Kingdom of Yafilet is famous’ for Dronie-.
daries, which will travel as much in twenty-four
Hours, as ordinary Horfes do in eight Days: It is
much more barren than any other Part. of Barbarys,
and has only this one City in it; in’ which- refide
many of the Emperor’s.Sons; for when. they are of
fuch an Age, that he is apprehenfive they may be too:
bufy among the Women, he no longer lets them
live in the Palace, but they. are difpafed of as the
Intereft. of their Mothers prevail, either in fome
Poft about the Court, or fent to Taffilet, where the
Emperor gives them a Plantation of Dates, on which:
they live; but thofe who have the Misfortune to'lofe
their Mothrrs, or are out of Favour, come to. Want,
and are as much neglected, as if they had not bee
oe Taffilet vakt Quantities of moft Sorts of Chiggas ,
moditics, coming out cf the Deferts and Country
round,
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round, are laid up in Store-Houfes, till they are by
the Emperor s Orders aires difpofed of.
Wr now entered with our Pilot and the Caravan
Into the Deferts 3 who, after feventy Days Travel
over this fandy Ocean, he ftill dire@ing us by the
Compafs, brought us in Safety to the Caftle of Teal,
a Garrifon kept by A/oors, always refiding there, and
where the Laurbs or Arabs, People inhabiting thofe
Parts of the Deferts, bring’in once a Year their
wonted Tributes, as Gold, Ivory, Indigo, &¢. which
they traffick for on the Coaft of Guinea.
“Tuese Laurbs areanawkard Sort of People of
an Olive Colour, and wearing the Hair of their
Heads and Beards without ever cutting or topping,
it runs naturally up into Rings or Curls, fo that their
Heads look all one at a Diftance, as if they had grow-
ing on them large Bufles of Furze: ‘Their only
Cloathing is a blue Linen Shirt, and a Pair of Draw-
ers reaching a little below their Knees, with which
they are furnifhed by the AZors: Their Habita-
tions, or Tents, are made of the Skins of tame
-and wild Beafts: Their Food chiefly the Flefh and
Milk of Camels, as being, of all others, moft in
Efteem with them, though fometimes they eat Mut-
ton, having many Sheep of a large Size, bearing a
long Spiry Hair, inftead of Wooll; Antilopes, and,
in fhort, any other Sort of Flefh they can catch, as
Lyons, ‘Tygers, Oftritches, Sc. and Dates isifhoad of
Bread: Their «Language, called Laurbea, is much
the fame with that of the Moors, as only differing
fome
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- fome fmal! Matter in the Pronunciation, fo that they
underftand each other perfectly well.
Tue Cattle here (that is to fay, Camels and
Sheep) are tolerably well fleth’d ; which I think to
be pretty ftrange, there being but here and there
fearce any Thing of Pafture to be feen, and that
chiefly in and about thofe Places where the Springs
of Water rife, and where you may fee vaft Herds
of thofe Creatures almoft continually browzing ona
long {piry Weed, bearing a Seed much in Colour
and ‘Tafte like that we call Worm-feed.
WueEwn the Natives kill a Camel, they make
him firft kneel down on his Knees, with his Nofe
clofe to the Sand, and then they cut his Throat iz
that Pofture, always beginning to take off his Skin
from the Bunch on his Back, (which is all Fat) and
fo downwards ; then they cut him into {mall long
Pieces, drying all but what they referve for prefent
Ufe by the Wind and Sun, and then it is hung up
in their Tents; and though it is not at all falted,
yet will it (if kept dry) remain good for a long
‘Time: In fhort, (their Stomachs being pretty muclz
upon the Canibal) they are not very fqueamith, ge~«
nevally (to fave themfelves the Trouble of drefling)
eating it raw. “ae 6 3
We had with usin this Expedition feveral Blacks,
and amongft them one (a very ftout, active, cunning ~
Fellow }) named Bufbmough, a Native of the Braziis,
to whom one of the chief Men amongit thofe
| d, Lauros
[. we.
Laurbs had a very great Fancy, and was feveral
Times very defirous of buying him ; which the
Negro perceiving, and feeing the Laurb one Day co-
ming again with fome of his People to our Cattle,
he afk’d me, why I did not fell him: Se¥ you, re-
plied I, why fo? No, no, Bufimough, by no Means.
Foh, faid he, fell me for good Gold and Mutton, and
you foall fee I will be foon with you again: O but
(faid 1) when once they have got you into their Clutches,
they will not again fo foon let you go, as you may per-
haps imagine ; therefore, good Bulhmough, be content
to remain as you are, rather than to run any fuch Ha-
zard. Ono, no, {aid he, you need not, as to that, be
under the leaft Concern ; for you may depend on Buth-
-mough’s focw finding bis Way back again. Upon
which, and on my feeing that I could not be at Quiet
from the Laurb’s fo prefling and frequent Importu-
nities, and I having before received Orders from the
Emperor to fell any of the Blacks, by Way of fur-
nifhing the Army with Provifionsy i fold him for
twenty Gold Ducats, (which is juft nine Pounds
Englifh) and fixty Sheep ; and after I had taken the |
Emperor’s Cloaths off him, and had in Lieu thereof
given him an old Blanket, and the Money and Sheep
were delivered to me, he was, by his new Mafter, -
mounted on one of his@wn Horfes, which I had the
Day before (by the Emperor’s Permiffion alfo) fold
him, together with feyeral others, paft our Service,
Anpv now. is honeft Bufhmough about.to depart
with his new Mafter, calling to me in Portugueze,
That I flould not be under any the leaf? Doubt of his
Honour 5 for that. if he could not, according to his In-
clinations, get off fo foon as he intended, and I might
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expect, yet Tmight depend on bis coming back fo foon
as he poffibly could: And then the Laurd turn’d abcut
_ his own Horfe to be going, looking very chairy at
Bufbmugh, ordering him to ride on before him, and
‘was, no Doubt, not a little pleafed with his Bargain,
bidding us all-farewell ; and Buj/hmough play’d a
‘thoufand antick Tricks,.as long as he thought him-
felf in our Sight, )
AND now is honeft Bufhmough gone with his new
Mafter, with whom we muft leave him feven Days
on hard Drudgery, he coming back to us again the
- eighth, about Day-break, mounted on one of his
Maiter’s beft Horfes, and a long Launce on his
Shoulder, drefs’d only ina blue Shirt and Drawers,
according te the Laurbifh Mode, calling tome to be
det in 5 of which I being acquainted, hafted as quick
as I could to receive him, accofting one another very
friendly, and laughing very heartily ; and after we
had Jaugh’d our Fill, I afk’d him, what he thought
of the Gold Ducats, and if he was not afraid I would
keep them for myfelf ? No, no, faid he, that is the
teat of my Fear, I being (if you pleafe) determined
with myfelf, that they foall be laid out for the Good of
fo many of us, as you fhall think fit; adding, That
unle/s it was my own Fault, I foould fell him again
and again: In which, indeed, he was foon after as
good as his Word, for I fold him again to two other
feveral Mafters, as will be related prefently. I en-
‘quired of him the Particulars of this comical Adven-
ture ; firft afking him, what Reception he had met
with there: What Reception, {aid he, O very gaod,
very good; I was ufed very courteoufly indeed, and
wanted for nothing they had : Then (reply’d I) don’t
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you think yourfelf very much to blame to cheat him thus
of his Money and Goods ? No, no, faid he, [ have
cheated him of neither, I having made him very. fuffi-
cient Satisfaciion, though it were a great deal more.
You make bim Satisfaction, faid 1, but pray how, or in
what could you pretend to make him Satisfaction,
when you fo bafely forfook him, bringing off his beft
Fisrfe, and Launce into the Bargain ?.O, O, no Mate
ter for that; I tell you that I richly deferved them,
bad they been worth a great deal more; and which,
when Ihave told you the Bufinefs, you. will as-well as
myfelf alloav. Pray, Bufhmough, in what AZanner ?
for I cannot for my Life imagine in what Way you
could do this... Why then, faid he, fince you mu/? have
it, know. that all the Time I was there, I was kept
amongfi his young [Vomen, asa Breeder, andif I have
not left behind me fo many young Bufimoughs as te
make him ample Satisfaction, over and above ihe Plea-
fure bis new Wife and Daughter took in it, 1 mult ale
low it to be wery.bard indeed ; merrily adding, Now,
Sir, is not Bufhmough a pretty Fellow? Very well,
faid 1, dut are you not afraid your old Mafter will be
foon here again, to enguire after you, as you may de~
pend he will? and how will you manage then? To
which he (walking on Tip-toes laughing) told me,
That he would leave that to. me, and that if I should
let him go, it might not.be in his Pewer to get his
Friends any more.Gold Ducats or Mutton + Then in
an angry FoneI told him, that he was a very pretty
Fellow, in ‘intending to carry on the Droll further ;
but. I could not forbear laughing, no more than him-
felf, I being really furprized to fee the Subtilty of
the Creature: However, I teld him in good Earneft,
that he fhould take efpecial. Care not to Jet any of
thein fee his Face, for that I was very certain thet his
J late Matter
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Mafter would be again with us very foon ; as indeed
he was the next Morning very early at our (Sates,
enquiring if | his Fugitive was come back : Of
which Bu/bmough himfelf brought me the News,
running haftily, and faying to mein a foft, though
pleafant Manner, Ady old Majler Laurb 7s come, my
ald Mafter Laurb is come ! Your ald Mafter come,
faid I, pray what old Mafter ? Why, faid he, £ tedl
you my cold Mafter Laurb: No! faid TP: Yes, indeedy
fail he, he is, for I faw him myfelf with the great
Bujb upon bis Hatns' Very well, faid 1, and don’t
you intend to go with him ? O a no, fatd'he ; bué
you foall fee (if you will fuffer me ta put on a rich
Drefs, and to mount a good Hs: wf } that I will ride
out, and foon make bie glad to depart again without
me; but you muff be Mule to tell him, that Fam avery
near Relation to the Emperor 5 which (faid he) will be
very pretty, and then I will ride out, and make fome
very good Paflime. ‘Vherefore, to try his Dexterity,
he was foon rigged. in a very rich DreS, a Furbane
on his Head, a Scymeter by his Sidé, a Launce in
his Right Hand, and mounted on an exceeding fine
Horfe, richly accoutered ; and then I, with fome
others of our People, salbe out, and Binge in
the Mid{t of us, appearing very grand, bold, and as
unconcerned: as you pleafe ; and after my afking the
Laurb what he would have, he told me, that he was
come to enquire after the Black we had fold him
about eight Days ago 3 who was, he faid, gone off in
a bafe Manner with his beft Horfe and Launce, and
.that he was feen riding that Way. Indeed! (faid |
in a feeming Surprize) but how came you to let him
go 2? Certainly you muft bave usd him very ill. Noy
faid he, he had all the Encouragement imaginable. O
the Rogue, faid I, a a ungrateful bafe Rogue! he
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Anew better than to come here 3 I wifh T could light ow
him, that I might make an Example of the bafe Vil-
bain, to the Terror of all. bis Countrymen. Bufb=
mough was all this while clofe by the Laurb, whiftling
and behaving after the moft unconcerned Manner,
though hearing and underftanding our Difcourfe on:
both Sides perfetly well; when cafting my Eyes.
round, I foon found the Laurb had fixed his on Bujfb-
mough, muttering tohimfelf, That he thought him er
treamly like him: At which I afk’d him, what was.
the Matter ; when he fpoke aloud, That the Black
xiding the fine Elorfe was very much itke bis, and.
that had it not been for his rich Apparel,.and Gran
deur of his fine Horfe and Furnsiure, (by which be
appeared to be a Man of much higher Rank) he
foould aGiually have concluded him to bg the fame s
When I telling him in Portugueze what the Laurd-
faid, be anfwered me, Pknow it alreacy, fill keeping.
his Coumtenance, without the leaft Alteration of
Temper or Behaviour, and riding up and down by
the Leurb as clofe as he could, till he feemingly
agreed that it was not the fame Black. ; afking, if he
was to be fold: Sold/ faid I, O fie, what are you.
talking of ? Why, faid: he, what Harm is in that ?
Indeed, {aid 1, the Harm is not much between us 3 yet,
as he is avery near Relation ta one of the Emperor's
Wives, foould he. know what you faid of him, be-
would, no Doubt, be very angry with you , andy.
as he is a Man extreamly paffionate in his Nature,
(making no more of killing a Adan, than locking him in
the Face) it might not only prove of very ill Confequence-
to you, but it is even a hundred to one if he did not
cut off your Head : At which he feemed, and was,
no Doubt, ina very great Hurry to be gone, and
glad if he might depart in a whole Skin, defiring
me;
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me, not to tell the Emperor’s Coufin of his fo fcan-
dalous Opinion of him, bowing to him with the moft
profound Reverence, and Bujbmough behaving - like
the Emperor’s Coufin indeed, not fo much as giving
hin one Nod in Return, but in a feornful Manner
turned upon him his Back, foon after laughing very
heartily to fee, as he faid, how difconfolate he went
off, and how much like a Fool he departed, throw-
ing himfelf, even in an Extafie, on the Ground, and
erying out, fo well as his exceflive Laughter would
permit him Utterance, Laurbs ! Laurbs Laurbs f
O poor filly cuckoldly Laurbs !
Busumoucn’s firt Adventure proving fo lucky
and diverting, and being finifhed fo well, he had now
in a Manner nothing elfe to do, than to look out’
fharp: for another Chap, and which indeed he on the
fecond Day after had the Luck to meet with: He
running haftily in, and telling me that be had jutt
then fpoke with fome Gentlemen Laurbs without,
who had a very great Mind to buy him, and that
they lived in a quite different Part of the Defart from
that of his old Mafter, I went out immeciately to
them, and afk’d what they: wanted ;: they told me,
to buy the Black by my Side ; and finding them to
be very eager fora Purchafe, [ feemed altogether as
indifferent and unwilling about it 3; by which I -
fcrew’d them at laft to forty Gold Ducats: ‘There was :
now a Difpute between the Laurbs, for fome Time,
which of them fhould have him ; however, it was at
laft agreed by them, that as they lived all, as it were,
together, they would. buy him in Partnerfhip 5 which
indeed they did, and honeftly paid me down the
forty Ducats for him ; and after he had: given me fuf-
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“fufficient Satisfation as to his Intentions of coming
‘back, (which he hoped would be in three or four
‘Days at the furtheft) he merrily departed with his
“new Matters, and was indeed better than his Word,
he coming to us again the next Day in good Seafon,
anJ when I again afked him concerning his Reception
with them : He faid it was not in anywife fo agree-
“able with his Inclinations, as was that of his frrhér
Mafter’s, there not being (he faid) fo proper Objeéts
of his Obfervance ; therefore he was obliz’d to remain
their Debtor, till they were otherwife provided better
to his Mind. (Vell, but (faid 1) you don’t, [ hope, intend
to go back to them, nor again to braze it out with the fe
as you did with the former ,; if you do, 1 think st is
high Time for youto be dreffing, for if Iam not very
“pinch miftaken, I fee them coming, pointing with my
‘Finger at fome People I had difcovered at a Di-
ftance ; ; whom Bu/bmough alfo difcovering, he feem’d
to be highly deliglited at it, and turn’d hinfelf about
to be going off ; “and then I afk’d him, where .he was
isis to > “Gaing to, faid he, why going to drefs,
for they will be foon here, intending te play again his
ald Gambol: Ttoldhim, No 3 for that I thought he
bad on that Subject? carried on the Droll far enough
before 5 therefore he foould, at his Peril, keep himfelf. ~~
slofe within, till they had an Anfwer to their Errand,
and were again departed : However, | kept him in
Difcourfe, till the Laurbs came fo near us, that we
‘plainly made them out to be the fame ; ‘and’ then
-bufhmough ery’d out, O yes, yes, they Le my fecond
-Mafters indeed, humbly defiring’ me to give him
Leave to make them fome Paftime, for that: “(he faid)
was all they were like to have, for their Money, there-
Sore it would be very unconfcisnable in me to deny hb,
However, I {till perfifledaa my former Refolutioa,
and.
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and told him, with feeming Warmth, that in cafe h¢
fhould offer'to play any further Pranks of that Natures
I was thoroughly refolv’d to deliver him up to theny
~ for that I was very certain. all bis Art would not be
fufficient to conceal from them the Knowledge of his
noble Phiz, nor had thefe Mafters Horns (fo far as he
could tell of) to ftand in their Light, as the former
Mofter’s flood in his: So he was at laft conftrained
to fubmit and tarry within, till I had heard the Re-
fult of their Meflage, and given them an Anf{wer 3
though this, Iam fure, was very much. againft his
Inclination, and he would, no Doubt, have attempted
fome Prank, had not I, by feveral repeated Com-
mands, ordered him to the contrary 3 and then I
‘rode out with a few of our People, and afked them
what they wanted : To which they anfwered me,
‘that they wanted the Black whom IJ had fold them the
‘Day before, and who (they faid) ran away from them
in a fhort Time after they had him at Home. Kun
away ! (faid 1 in a feeming Surprize) I can fearce
believe you : Pray which Way did he run ? Nay, that
(faid they) we cannot tell ; however, we.thought be
“might have been come hither. Hither # (aid I, that you
know he dared not, therefore you only jeff with me: On
which they confirmed it in the moft folemn Man-
ner, afluring me, that he was actually run away,
wringing their Hands, and lifting up their Eyes ta-
gether, as though they had at once loft all they had.s
and thus they continued to do for two Days; ftill ex-
pecting his Return ; whea I telling them what
Countryman he was, and that probably he was beat-
ing his Way Home, and their Provifion quite fpent,
-and having no Encouragement of getting any more
from us, they returned in a very heavy and difcon-
tented Mood without him; which Ba/bmough per-
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perceiving, he called after them from the Caflle
Wall, in Portwguexe, Here he isy bere be is; though
this indeed he knew they did not underftand: And;
fo an End was’ put to his fecond Adventure, they
giving him quite over ; and he was now at Liberty
again to look out for a third, in which he managed
fo well, that on the fixth Day following he gota
new Chap to purchafe him, and I again fold him for
the like Sum, viz. ferty Gold Ducats, but charged
him, on his Life, to make Hafte back again 5 which,
if he did not, (as‘we thould be foon moving with the
Carravan) we fhould be oblig:d to leave him be-
hindus: No, no, faid he, never fear that 3-do you but
take Gare to fet up at Night a lighted Torch on the
Fop of the Caftle Wall, and never fear of my being
back again before the next Day-light ; and which, in-
deed, he. was, coming to us foon 'after Midnight
with two of the Laurds Mufkets, and all their Ame
munition in two Leather Pouches, ftealing with them
(he faid )-out of their Tent, whilft they were fleep-
mg; however, they were foon after Daybreak
back again to our Caftle, to enquire after him, fadly
lamenting their Lofs, and efpecially that of their
Ammunition and Arms ;-to all which we only gave
them the Hearing, they being at laft no better off
than the others of their Brethren had been before
then...
4
AND now, after having had fuficient Profit and
Pattime, through Means of honeft Bu/hmough, (tho’
having a very great Mind to fell himfelf once more,
he did not think fo) and all other Matters finifhed to.
our Satisfa@tiom, we pack’d up our Treafure, and in
feventy Days got. fafe back to Tafilet, making of
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{ta very pleafant Journey ; which I muft, in a very”
great Meafure, attribute to the jocular Behaviour of
honeft Bufbmeugh, feldom a Day pailing without our
mecting fome of his old Friends, and his fuddenly
crying out thereon, The Laurbs! the Laurbsf ran-
ning and {kipping in the moft comical Manner, tho”
he had not the Pleafure of meeting with any of his
old Matters, which I dare fay he of all: Things de+
fired. Here we refted feven Days, to refrefh our}
felves and Cattle, and then we proceeded, and got_
fafe in eleven Days more to AZeguinez, where we
were well received by the Emperor, fumptuoully
feafted by his Order, and had every Man twenty Du-
eats ; and then he direQly ordered us for our old
Garrifons, with his Service to our Wives, where we
fafely arrived, after the Abfence of tix Months.
‘Now am T again at my old Sport, and bufy in
killing Plenty of Game, which was but for. a very
fhort Duration, I being all on the fudden foon after
harried away to try my Fortune in another Part of
the Country, after a more hoftile Manner; for at the
End of the fixth Week I was exprefsly ordered by.
the Emperor again to haften to Mequines. with two
undred of my Men; where I found ready to
march, on fome fecret Expedition, an Army confift-
ing of fixty thoufand Men, Horfe and Foot, com-
manded by Bathaw Goffey, with whom we were
joined, and the next Day marched with them,- our
Route being; as I then underftood, for Binnifuefs,
on the River Mudzeetoon, or River of Olives, near
the Borders of the JZsrecco Dominions, and. the
Country of the Argireens, on Account of their De-
nial of paying the Emperor’s Agents their refpec-
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tive Tributes, which they had refufed to do for a
long Time back, after a moft infolent Manner. ~
Tue firtt Day we marched to Fez; the fecond
to Keeffan ; third to Te//ah ; fourth to a Skirt of the
Defarts ; and after three other Days March thereon,
to Wifbaddah, a ftrong Garrifon, to keep the Argi-
reens in Awe; and wherein the Malecontents had as
ftrongly fortified themfelves : We lying at a conve-
nient Diftance for the Night, our Bafhaw fent in a
Mefienger the next Morning, requiring them to fur-
render ‘the Fort to the Emperor’s Pleafure, and to
fend him out immediately fuffcient Pledges of their
Performance: To whieh he was anfwered, That
they were thoroughly refolurd ta the contrary, and that.
he foould find he had not Children to deal with. With
which Anfwer the Meflenger in a very fhort Time
returned, and then we were all ordered to intrehch
ourfelves ;. but before we could finilh our Work, the
Malecontents fallied forth, in Number about ten
thoufand, who difeharged thetr Mufkets on us, and
Were returning again towards the Caftle, when fix
thoufand more of them within alfo fallying forth, and
jotning them, they all of them turn’d upon us again,
and there enfued between us a cruel Slaughter for the
Space of three Hours, thoufands falling on both
Sides ;.and thus they continued, by frequent Relieves
from the Caftle, to fkirmifh with us in and out for
three Days: At the End of which, they (the greateft
Part of them being already, by the Foree of our fu-
perior Numbers, cut off). furrendered to the Difcre-
tion of the Bafhaw ; Jorogoigh their Chief, with many
others of their Principals, coming out to him with
their Excufes, Prefents, and Arrears ; and among
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the former feveral very fine Horfes, and a large Sum:
of Money for the Bafhaw’s own particular Ufe 5
and which, no Doubt, was fufficiently made good to
them, by faving fome of their Lives, (though fome
indeed only to live a little longer. )
_ Anp now amI again at Leifure to look about
me, as indeed it was high ‘Time, being grievoufly
wounded in our laft bloody Skirmifh, by a Mufket
Shot lodging in my left Thigh, the Bafhaw receiving
another in his Arm, much about the fame Time:
Mine proved extreamly painfulto me, it being evento
the End of thethird Day before my Surgeon could
conveniently.take it out, notwithftanding. he wasa
very ingenious Man 3 and tho’ the Remains of our
Army refted there two Months, yet could I not ride
till juft before our Departure ; however, I thought
miyfelf to be far better off than a great many of our
Army, we having loft therein fuli fourteen thoufand
Men. ;
AnD nowam [travelling back, in a great deal of
Pain, with the Remainder of our Army for AZegui-
nez, and with us forty of the principal Rebels in this
Rebellion, to give an Account of their Behaviour to
the Emperor ; who being brought before him, he
forthwith ordered them for Execution, the Victims
ftanding allina Row, andthe Headfman ready with
kis Sword drawn in bis Hand, only waiting the Word
of Command, or Signal; which being given, he
ftruck off feventeen Heads at fo..many Strokes,
when he was ordered to ftay his Hand, and the other
twenty-three were pardoned, and fent back to be-
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‘behave with more Prudence for the: future ; and I,
after I had recruited the Men I. had loft, (in all
¢wenty-fix) fo faft as I could ride for Tamujnah, and
amy other Garrifons, getting thither again after about
three Months Abfence, finding my Family in good
‘Health, and encreafed-by a brave Boy.
Now am I, after my late. Skirmifhes and fad
‘Wound, again with.my Wife and Family at Zamn/-
mab, aid where I happened to remain with thenr for
fome confiderable Time in Peace and Plenty, fpend-
dng moft of my Timein my old Sport in the Woods,
though I went -pretty often to Selle, and where I
amet with feveral of my Countrymen, with whom I
foon got well acquainted ; yet-could not I (although
Ivery heartily endeavour’d it) meet with any Oppor-
tunity to my Mind, wherein I might in any Proba-
bility make my Efcape; and for me to make any |
foolifh Attempts that Way, I thought was by far bet-
ter to let alone; therefore, after making mierty with
my Countrymen fometimes for three, four, or five
Days, I returned to my Family and my old Sport: :
"Though as Pleafure never comes fincere, a Dath of
Water isnow thrown into our Wine, our Son, at
the Age of ten Months, dying; though after this we
lived withoutany Uneafinefs almoft to the End of two
Years, when a fudden Rumour ran, That the old
Emperor was dead, as indeed he had been at Jeait two
Months before, though kept private for-certain Rea-
fons of State, no Doubt to ftrengthen the Intereft of
fome. of the Competitags for the Empire.
Anp here, before we ee on to relate what bakin
pened on-the Death of the old Tyrant, Aduley I/-
mel,
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T/omael, it will not be amifs to add fome further Par
ticulars of his Character, and Method of governing.
Tue Emperor cameto the Throne in the Year
1672, upon.the Death of his Brother, Muley Archid,
by oppofing his Nephews, the Sons of AMfuley Archidy
being then only Alcayde of A¢equinez ; but afpiring
to the Crown, he raifed what Forces he could, and
by his Courage and: Vivacity, with the Help he met
with from the Feus, particularly A¢emarran, their
-Governor, who fupplied him with Money to carry
on the War, he overcame both his Nephews 3 one
of whom, Aduley Hamet, being Bathaw of Adoroccay
at his Father’s Death, had caufed himfelf to be pro-
claimed King tiches and the other, Aduley Aran,
fet up in the Kingdom of Laffrlet.
An exceffive Cruelty, a great Capacity, and @ ©
perfect Knowledge of the Genius and Temper of
his People, preferved to this Emperor the Throne for
fo long a Space of Time as fiity-five Years, and
Death alone took it fromhim. By ftriély obferving,
even to the niceft Particulars, all the Ceremonies of
the Mahometan Religion, he made himfelf refpected
by his Subjeéts for his Virtues, at the fame Time he
vwas feared for his Cruelty and Vices. He. always
brought his Projects to bear; and if he faw. there
was Danger in ufing Violence, he knew how to em-
ploy Cunning, Voluptuous, covetous, paffionate,
treacherous, more than a Tyrant, he tamed the na-
tural Savagenefs of his Subjects, by faewing himfelf
aul more favage than they.
AFTER.
L wey
’ Arter the Death of his Nephew, Muley Hamet,
his Cruelty began to appear: The firft- Scene of
which was acted by the Side of a River, to which
he came with his Army, but could not pafs, where
he ordered all the Prifoners to be kill’d, and woven
into a Bridge with Rufhes, for his Army to pafs over
upon. :
In 1678, he made hirfelf Mafter of Taffilet, and
three Years after that took Marmara from the spa-
niards, where he found 88 Pieces of Brafs Cannon,
fifteen of Iron, Ammunition of all Sorts, more than
he had in his whole Dominions before ; and a great
Prize of Pearls and Jewels (belonging to Merchants
who then were in the Town) fell into his Hands,
He alfo took Larach from the Spaniards in 1689,
clearing all the Sea Coaft of his Territory, but Ada/-
| fagan, Pennon de Velez, and Ceuta; the jatter of
which (though always blockaded with 10,000 Men,
and fo ftrictly prefled, that the Bafhaw cannot ftir
from before it, without Leave from the Emperor).
has defy’d all Attempts for thirty-four Years together,
In 1701, he fought a Battle with the Dey of Algiers,
but corhing off with the worft, a Peace was cone
¢luded, which has continued ever fince.
At the Beginning of his Reign, the Roads were
fo infefted with Robbers, that it was dangerous to
ftir out of the Towns, without being well guarded :
but he fo well cleared them, that now it is no where
fafer travelling, eth te
He
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He maintains his large Empire (which confifts of”
feveral Kingdoms j. ined together) in Peace and Qui-
etnefs, although of fo late an Acquifition to the Fa-
mily. In his ‘Empire is contained all that Country
called by the Romans, Mauritania Tingitana,. wiih
other Provinces to the Southward, as far as Cape
Blanco, where it is bounded by the Negro Country 5 :
as itis Northerly by the Mediterranean Sea: It has
on the Eaft the Kingdom of /giers, and Part of the
Country of Bildulgerid ; and on the Welt the main.
Ocean ; including. the Kingdoms of Fez, Maroccoy
Taffilet, Darha; Suz, Tremezen, and = Segelr 1e/5 5
over which he rules ah fo feverea Hand, and has
ftruck fuch a Dread into all Men, by fe terrible
Executions, that none of the Remnants-of the Royal
Blood of the before-mentioned Kingdoms, orany of
his Baithaws, have dared to take up Arms again
him. All the Difturbance he ever met with at
Home, (fince his: Eftablifhment after the Conquer of
his Nephew) was the Rebeilion of his Son AZuley
Adahomet, who caufing himfelf to be proclaimed
King of Morrocco, plagued him for fome Time ; but
fending his Son Afuley Zidan againtt him, Muley Ada-
homet was overthrown; and. the Emperor having -
got him into his Clutches, ordered his Right tina
and Left Foot to be cut off; after which, the Prince
foon died, not fuffering the Blood to be itopped, but
tearing off the Plaitters..
His Manner of seeernine is by Alcaydes, who
have no Commiffion, but receive their Authority
only hy: his faying, Go govern fuch a Country, be my
Generalor Admiral, At Court, he has five ftahding
Officers ; “they qs. the Grand. Mufti, for Affairs of
M
Religion ;
Me dee ee
Religion 3 the chief Eunuch, to take Care:of the
Seraglio; a Yreafurer for his. Revenue ; the Super-
intendant of his Buildings; and the Bafhaw of J/e-
qu‘nez, who is the firft Minifter, or fupreme Alcayde,,
of which there are three Sorts ; the firft and chief
are thofe who, in the Nature of Vice-Roys, are
fent to govern the Provinces; to whom,-for their
greater Honour, is fometimes giver the Title of Ba-
fhaws.. “They have an unlimited Power, and it mat-
ters not how much they tyrannize, if,.upon their
Return to Court, they bring Riches enough to fa-
tisfy the. Emperor.. Another Sort are the Generals.
of his Armies, and Commanders over {mall Parties
of Horfe or Foot. ‘The third Sort are Governors of
Cities,. or‘Towns,, and are either made by the Em-.
peror himfelf, as are the. Alcaydes of Morocco, Fez,.
Sallee and other great Cities ; or by the Governors of
the Provinces, over fmall Towns and Cities 5 a.
fourth Sort may be added, which are: titular only,.
and therefore called Alcaydes of ther Heads..
Tur Governors of the Provinces are ordered to:
Court every two or three Years, to render an Ac-
count of their Government; that is, to bring the.
Emperor all that they have by an arbitrary. and ty-
rannical Power, plundered:the People of, by which
Means he gets-little lefs than-their whole Wealth,.
which never circulates more but. is: thrown. tnto his.
Treafury, and remains there an: unprofitable and:
ufclefs Hoard, he never parting. with it again,
upon any Account whatfoever ; for neither his.
Armies, Fleet, or Buildings. coft him any thing..
When he has Occafion to raife Forces, the Al-
seydes of the Provinces are obliged to find and main-
/ tain
‘E ogo |
tain them). each providing fora number in propor=-
tion to the extent of his Government. The Ships
alfo that are in his Service, are fitted out and main-
tained by the Alcayde of the Port to which they be-
long ; neverthelefs he has half the Prizes, and takes’
all the Slaves, remitting part of his Motety of the
Prize-goods, in Confideration for the Slaves, who:
did not belong to-his Share.
Wren the Alcaydes return from their Govern
ments, it is with the greateft Fear imaginable, as E
have before hinted ; for if the Emperor thinks they
do not bring him. the whole Profits thereof, but keep:
fomething for themfelves, they are in danger of being:
put to fome cruel Death. Before they go into his:
Prefence, they pull off their Shoes, put on a par-
ticular Habit they have to denote a Slave, and
when: they approach him: faJl down and kifs the
Ground,. at his Horfe’s Feet; ifhe fpeaks to them,
they bend forward and hold their Heads a little on
one: fide, in Token of Offering their Life : whiclr
great degree of Subjection, proceeds partly from
Fear, and-partly from Superttition, for they believe
him to be the true Branch of the Xeriphian Family,
who draw their Defcent from the Prophet Adehamet,
and therefore think. he was particularly favoured -by
~ Heaven, and coulddo nothing amifs, but imagined
all who died by his Hand, went to Paradife ;in which
Opinions he confirmed them, by a fong continuance
ef Tyrannical Power, by Artifice and by Hypociify,
never doing any thing of Confequence without.
firft falling down upon the Ground, with his Face
clofe to the Earth, for a confiderable Time, ma-
king believe that he then received Infpiratioa and
M 2 Directions
‘[ ‘140 ]
Direétions from: God, or Mahomet, (for which pur-
_'pofe he had a great number of praying Places con-
trived in different Parts, net unlike Niches, laid ho-
rizontally in the Ground) and that he performed the
Will of God, in every thing he did. :
He likewife explained the Law to them himfelf,
which they follow according to the Opinion of their
Doégtor Me/ifh, who taught that there is but one
God, and. MA. homet was his chief Prophet ; that Je-
fus Chrift was. a great Prophet, born of a Virgin,
whofe Name was. Adary; that he was very holy» and
wrought Miracles, but did not die as we believe, for
when ‘fadas betrayed him, God caufed one of his
Difcipies to appear in his likenefs, who. was crucified
tn his ftead: That there is a Heaven and a Hell,
and the eternal Bleffing will confift in a fight of the
Sovereign Being, of his: Angels, and Mahomet, in
the enjoyment of beautiful Virgins, whofe Virginity
will daily be renewed, indulging their Appetites with
- all forts of delicious Food, which they fhall.have at a
With, bathing in Rivers of Milk and: Rofe-water ;
and that their Lodgings will be in glorious Palaces,
built with Diamonds, Pearls and precious Stones,
“That Hell will confitt in the extremities of Heat and
‘Cold, and. the damned: will be created and deftroyed
every Day. :
Trt Emperor certainly punifhed all Breakers of
their Law with great Severity; and carried his Hy-
pocsify fo far, that it was the moft religious Age
‘that ever wasim Rarbary, by the King’s Example, —
whofe Commands were efteemed facred, for the Jeaft
Breach
[ oper 7]
Breach of which, he had often infliG@ed the fevereft
Death 3 fo that what from the dread of Punifhment,
~and the. Opinion the People are brought up in, ‘no
» Prince was better obey’d..
He wasanearly Rifer, whether from: his natura!
»Difpofition, or the Horror of the many Murders,
Exactions, and Cruelties he had committed on’ his
poor Subjects and Slaves, J cannot determine 3 but
thofe who have been near him when abroad in Camps,
(for in his Palace, he was waited on by Women,
‘young Wenches and Eunuchs, who dare not tell
‘Tales, ) report that his Sleep was very much difturbed
and full of Horror ; when, ftarting on a fudden, he
has been heard to call upon thofe he had murdered 3.
and fometimes awake, he us’d to afk for them whom
*he had killed but the Day before, and if any of the
/Standers-by anfwered, He is dead, he prefently re-
~phed, Who killed hin 2° To which they anfwered,
They did not know, but fuppofed God. killed. a unlels
-—, had a mind to follow.
Me
Fhave heard he ufed once to call often on Hameda,
-a@ great Favourite of his, when he’ was walking
alone, and no body could be fuppofed to hear him ;
this Hameda was the greateft Favourite he ever
had ; he wasthe Son of the Guardian of the Slaves,
and came a Boy into the Emperor’s Army, when he
was befieging his Coufin AZuley Hamet in Terudant,
and doing fome Action before him, he took No-
stice of him and gave him a Horie; the Man fill
continued to do good things. and being a merry
-bufloon _— the Emperor grew into great Pa-
millarity
[ 142 ]
miliarity with him, infomuch that he could take the
Liberty to go into his Gardens, when he was with
his Women, which no Man ever did before or fince:
He had the Title of Bafhaw by way of pre-eminence
above all other Bafhaws : The Emperor ufed paffion-
ately to tell him, that he could never beheartily angry
with him, and that it was impoffible he fhould be
provoked to kill him: And it was thought he did
not defign to do it when he gave him fo many
Blows with the butt- end-of his Launce, that he died
ef them the next Day. “Fhe Emperor afterwards
fhewed a great.deal of Sorrow at it, confeffled he re-
pented of what he had done, fent. him’ and > his
Phyficians- a Bag of Money, and. defired him jto
lives.
As foon-as his firft Prayer was over, which was.
before the Morning Star difappear’d, he ufed to goto
his Works, which were of a vaft extent within. the
Walls-of his Palace ;. there the poor People (whether
Chriftians,, Negro Slaves, Boys who attended him,
Alceaydes, or Overfeers of the Works,) all tafted of
his Anger in their turns, beating, killing, or giving
good Words, according to the. Humour. ihe was in.
‘This was one of his top:Pleafures, in fome of thefe
Places and never within his Palace, he gave Audience
to Ambaffadors, converfed fometimes fitting on
the Corner of a Wall, walk’d often, and fometimes
work’d,. |
In the Year. 16g0, before he was Mafter of Sabra
there came a Womzen from that People to him, who,
hearing of her.coming, went to.meet her on: Horfe-
3 back,
i ae gl
back, atthe Head of twenty thoufand Men. She
told him the People of Sabra, were defirous to put
themfelves under his Protection, but that he muft
fight her at Launce-play, if he had a mind to have
her, at once the Pledge of their Fidelity, and the
Prize of his Victory. She fet him hard at firft, but
afterwards fuffcred -herfelf to be overpowered, was.
put among the reft ofhis Women, and Troops were
fent to protect the Frontiers of Sabra.
Weuen he was abroad, there us’d to be carried’
after him a Stool, a Kettle of Water, and a Skin).
¢€which was his Table-cloth) this belong’d to his eat-- -
ing; and if he was out at Dinner time, his Dinner-
was carried after him upon the Head of.a Negro, ina:
great wooden or copper Vefiel, which he did not take
from his Head till the Emperor afk’d for it: The:
mabner of his.eating did not differ from the ordinary
Zoors.. His other travelling Utenfils were two or
three Guns, a Sword or two, and two Launces, be-
caufe one broke once as he was murdering ; both:
the Swords and Launces were carried) with their
Points upwards ;.thefe were all carried by lufty Fel-
lows ; his Boys catry’d fhort Brazil Sticks, knotted:
Cords for whipping, a change of Cloaths to fhift when:
bloody, and a Hatchet,. two of which he took ina:
Portugueze Ship, and the firit timethey were brought
to him, killeda ? Neto without any Provocation, to
try if they were goods |
-AttTuoucH the Natives of his Dominions are:
Whites, yet they are not fo much efteemed by hin:
as the Blacks, and the Copper-coloured, to whon1.
he
f a4¢ J
he commits the Guard of his Perfon, and was fo
fond of their Breed, that he took care to mix thera
himfelf, by matching them to the beft, complexion’d
of his Female Subjects.
Tus he took care to lay the Foundation of bis
tawney Nurferies, to fupply his Palace as*he want-
ed, into which they were admitted very young, are
taught to worthip and obey that Succeflor of their
Prophet, and being nurfed in Blood from their In-
fancy, become the tesco and Minitters of their
‘Wrath, whofe terrible Commands they put in exe-
cution with as much Zeal and Fury, as if they had
received them immediately from Heaven. Their
smanner was (as foon as the Word came out of his
Mouth) to feize on the Wretch ordered for Execu-
tion like fo many Lions, whom (if he was not to be
executed on the Spat) they almoft tore to Pieces be~
fore he got to the Place of Execution ; and by the
Fury ot. their Looks, and their viclent and favage
manner of ufing him, made aScene very much re-
fembling the P tore of fo many Devils tormenting
the damned... ‘The ey were fo ready to. murder and:
deftrey, even while young, that the Alcaydes trem-
bled at the very fight of them, and the Empcror
feemed to take a great deal of Pleafure, and placed
much of his Safet ty in them, for they furrounded
him almoft where-ever he was, they are of all Ranks
and Degrees, fome were the Sons of his chief. Al-
caydes, others picked up by chance, or taken from
a large Negro Town joining to Afeguinez, which
the Emperor had filled with Families ,of Blacks and
‘Tawnies for his Ufe. If they were well looked-and
ftrong, they needed no. other Quality ; fome who
had Relations that were able, were fed, cloathed,
and
[C 145 J
and lodged by them others who had not were
lodged in the @itSkintsiof thé Palace, in great
Rooms, where they pig’d an hundred or two toge-
ther. ‘They wore only a fhort and fmall Coat with-
out Sleeves, which did not reach to their Knees ;
their Heads were fhaved and always expofed to the
Sun, for he affected to breed them hard. Moft, and
fometimes all of them, were employed in his Buil-
dings, where they took off their Cloaths, and laying
them all in a Heap, every one took a Bafket and re-
moved Earth, Stones or Wood; when they had
done, he ordered them to go to his ‘few and receive
fo much Soup; the next Day they appear’d gay and
under Arms.
He beat them in the crueleft Manner imaginable,
to try if they were hard; fometimes you fhould
fee forty or fifty of them all fprawling in their Blood,
none of them daring to rife till he left the Place;
where they were lying, andif they were pile
tenanced and out of Heart at this Ufage, they we
of a’ Baftard-breed, and muft turn out of his Sie
vice: I never hea-d that he killed but three of then,
one for Sodomy, and two for hiding a Piece of
Bread in the Hole of a Wall, which it was fuppofed
they could not eat, for they are great Reverencers:
of Bread, and take up (as all AdZahometans do) the.
deaft Crumb wherever they find it, and kifs it, When
they wanted Cloaths, the Emperor thought of fome-
body that had too much Money, either Adcor or,
‘Jew, and bad them go to him, and receive each a
Coat ¢ or Shirt. :
N THEY
i. 446, J
THEY were generally about eight hundred in all,
who liv’d- with him in a fort of Subordinaiion to one
another ; feveral had the Names of Alcaydes, as
the chief of them who waited on the Emperor’s Per-
fon ; others were made Overfeers of fome Tafk or
Work the: Emperor had ordered them to finith ;
forne he made perpetual Alcaydes over a certain
Number of his Companions, and fuch a one was to
anfwer for the reft, as to their Diligence, cleanly
‘and good Deportment in all particulars; and it was
wonzertful to fee the Infolence, State and Gravity of
thefe young Rogues, and how they aped the old Em-
peror in their Way of Government ; for tho’ they
could only inflict Blows, yet they ufed the haughty
Phrafes of Command, and talk’d of cutting Throats,
ftrangling, dragging, Ge,
Tue firft Mark of their Preferment, after they
were grown too big to ferye the Emperor in this na-
ture, Was viving them a Horfe (a Horfeman being in
the higheft Efteem imaginable among them, and the
Foot the contrary, infomuch that thofe who com-
manded thoufands of them, were not efteemed e-
qual to the Commanders of fifty Horfe,) then the
Emperor either recommended them to fome of his
Bathaws or great Alcaydes employ’d againft the Cari/-
tians, or the Berebbers that inhabit the. Mountains,
or kept them near him, and then they were ready to
be intrufted with ail important Meflages, as to carry
the Emperor’s Letter of Thanks to any Officer who
ferved him well, cr to call him Cuckcld fpit in his
‘Face, give hima Box on the Ear, ftrangle, or cut
off his Head. |
WHEN
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When, they had waited a confiderable Time, if
no Commands or Government became vacant, he
fent them to gather the Tribute of fome Country,
with the Title of an Alcayde ; and if any remained
by him without any Employment (after performing
this Service (he was called Alcayde of his Head,’
which was a fort of an Alcayde titular or Reforme, as
I have noted above ; but perhaps the Emperor fuf-
pected that he had put fomething more in his Pocket
than ordinary, then he bid him build fome Houfes
of fuch or fuch Dimenfions ; and that he might
feem fomething more reafonable than the A gyptrax
‘Tafk-mafters, us’d to bid him take his Lime and
Stone: The poor Man begins with a good Heart,
and when he has fpent all, Defpair forces him to
go to the Emperor, and tell him he is not worth one
Farthing more, left he fhould find his Work ftand-
ing ftill, and bury him alive in one of the Walls. The
Emperor then us’d to pick a Quarrel with him, cut
him with his Sword, wound him with his Launce, or
take off his Cloaths, all but his Drawers, give him
five hundred Blows on the Buttocks, put him in
Prifon, or load him with two great Chains, and
fend him to labour at the Houfe he was building, and
ordered fomebody elfe to finifhit. Now you mutt
know the Emperor never beata Man foundly, but.
the Man was in the high way of Preferment, and.
it was ten to one but His Majefty paffing by him in
Chains a few Days after, and finding him ina fad
pickle, he called him his dear Friend, Uncle or Bro-
ther, and enquir’d how he came into that Condition,
as if he knew nothing of the Matter, fent for a fuit
of his own Cloaths (which was a great Compliment)
made him as fine as a Prince, and fent him to govern
fome of his great Towns ; for by this Means he was
N 2 fure
[i tat: J
fure he had- not left him worth a Groat, and made
a careful Computation of what he might eet in his:
Government, *till it was his Turn to be {queez’d a-
gain.
THEY. tell a Story of a Spaniard, who was e-
Leemed a good Marks-man, and. brib’d to fhoot the
Emperor ; hie fo.meifled his ‘Aim, that the two Balls
he bad charged his Gun with, flew into the Pum-
‘mel of the Emperor’s Saddle. The Man was im-
mediately feized, and when it was expected he
would be put to a cruel Death, the Emperor firft re-
proached him with his bale Defign, afking him what
he had cone to deferve being. ufed fo, whether
he was-no, more beloved, ‘and'People were tired with
him 3 then’ ¢almly fant him to the Works among
the reft of the Chriftians... The Spaniard fearing he
fhould not come off fo, and thinking it a means
(if there was any) toget.his Liberty again, turned
/Méosrsy. but,-continued. in his Chriftian Habit. Some
Years after, the Emperor! going among the Work-
men, where he was, afked him why he did not pull
off his Hat 2° he anfwered, he was a AZoor; and the
Emperor being informed who he was, ordered him to
be freed immediately, afk’d him a thoufand Pardons,
for keeping him at work fo long, drefled him from
Head to Foot, and made him a Governor of fome
Country.
A little more or lefs this was the I Treatmertof his
Grandees, to-day hugged, kiffed and preferred, to-
morrow flript, robbed and beaten. Many of the
People about him bore the Marks of his Sword,
Launce
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Launce or fhort Sticks : andthe Face and Arms of
the Negro, who carried his Umbrella: when Cap-
tain Norbury was there, was fcarred all over with
Cuts that the Emperor had given him, it was fup-
pofed, for letting: the Sun come upon: him ; for he
was exceeding nice in his Tyranny, and when he
had done. with his Launce, he darted it fuddenly into
the Air, and it muft be caught before it comes to the
Ground, or he would kill the Man appointed for
that purpofe.
Tr he chane’d to kill any body when he had not
determined their Death (as it frequently happen’d)
he civilly begg’d their Pardon, and faid he did nog
defign to: kill that poor Mian, and laid the Fault on
God, faying, his Time was coine, the Powers a-.
bove would have it fo.
Ir he defign’d the Death of a Chriftian, whom
he car’d not to pardon, he fhut the Gates of his Pa-
lace, that A@ae/fre Fitter fhould not come 5 for it
was very fingular that this Adge/tre “fuan (a Chrif-
tian Slave of Catal lonta) by his. good Works, Tem-
per and Sincerity wrought fo much upon the Em-
peror, that he once fwore he would never fee him
but he would give him fomething, and that he fhould
never afk him any thing, but he would grant it ;
-and that being defirous to keep his Word, made
him fear that “Fuan fhould come to beg fuch a.Man’s
Life ; nay fometimes having feen him firft, he cried
out He muft give him Jomething, for be had feen him.
N 3 THE
x
[ @ngo 9] 3
- "Tue Emperor was wonderfully addi€ted to Buil-
ding ; yet it is a queftion whether he was more ad-
dicted to that, or pulling down ; for they faid if all
his Buildings were now ftanding by a moderate Com-
putation, they would reach to Fez, twelve Leagues
off: And thofe who had been near him fince the
beginning of his Reign, have obferved him eternally
building and pulling down, fhutting up Doors and
kreaking out new ones in the Walls. But he told
them this was done to occupy his People; for faid
he, if [havea Bag full of Ratts, unlefs I keep that
Bag ftirring they would eat their way through. He
alfo dug many ftrange Caverns in the Earth of all
fizes, fome for Corn, others for Powder, Arms,
Srimfione, and Money, of which latter it is fufpeéted
he left no Witnefies, when finifhed,
Te Emperor never parted with any Money,
to defray the Expences of War, or Building, and
caufed his large and magnificent Palace to be erected,
without expending a Blankill towards it ; but inftead
of Money he gave the Alcayde of his Buildings
a Government ; which then was all that Coun-
try, lying between Adequinez and Tremezen, a large
tra& of Ground, and a very fruitful Soil ; but
confidering the continual Employment, and unli-
mited Expences which his Office oblig’d him to, it
was thought he could not get any thing for him-
felf, more than what fuffic’d for his Mainte-
nance,
rod
ALTHOUGH this Emperor had eight thoufand
Wives, nine hundred Sons, aad about three hundred
Daughters,
[ ee 4
Daughters, yet he was always attentive to the Af-
fairs of the State, and never committed the Govern-
ment of it out of his own Hands. Being feized with
a violent Difeafe, he emploved (without Succefs, to
prolong his Days) all the Help of Medicines, as well
as that of his Women, froni whom he exacted to
promote his Cure fuch difgufting Compliances, as to
relate would be indecent.
Murey Hamer Desy, one of his Sons, whom
he had defigned for his Succeffor, hearing of his Fa-
ther’s Illnefs, came with all Difpatch from Ted/a
(where he refided) to A¢equinez, to fee-him : It was
not but with much Difficulty that he got the Liber-
ty of fpeaking to him, and he was at laft but badly
received. “Lhé Father, perfuaded that Intereft (ra-
ther than Affeftion) was the Motive of this Vifit of
his Son’s, told him to moderate his Eagernefs for the
Crown ; but the Son protefted to his Father, that
the Pleafure of feeing him was the only Motive of his
coming.
Hamer Desy found, by the Condition in which
he faw his Father, and from the Opinions of: the
Phyficians, that he could not live long, he therefore
t ok all p Mible Methods to prevent Difturbances,
and to aflure himfelf of the Crown ; for he had many
Rivals for it, and amongft others two of his Bro-
thers, Aduley Abdallah, and Muley Abdemeleck, who
was accounted one of the moft able Generals in
the Kingdom. Thefe had all been fecretly making
great Preparations ; but Deby had, by his Prudence
and Vigilance, difconcerted all their. Meafures: He
N 4 . had
Le 3
had brought with him only a thoufand Men, but as
foon as he knew of the different Parties which were
forming in the Kingdom, hedrew from the Provinces
of his JurifdiGiion, five hundred Foot more, and fix
hundred Horfe, whom caufing to enter privately in _
the Night into A@eguinez, he feized upon ail the ad-
vantageous Pofts therein, and obliged the Governor’
to render to him an Oath of Fidelity. During this,
the Diforder of the Emperor Aduley [/bmael, toge~
ther with his great Age, put an End to his Life the
24d of March, 1727, in the Sift Year of his Age.
‘
Tre Moment his Death was known, all the In-
habitants of A~Zeguinez retired every- one to their
~ Houfes, abandoning all the publick Works on which
Aduley [fomael had unprofttably kept them inceffantly
employed. The fame Day the Bafhaw Adefael pre-
fented the Keys of the City..to Aduley Hamet Deby,
who, without lofing any Time, went to take Poffef-
fion of the Palace, and the Apartment of his deceas’d
Father. He ordered him to be buried in the Night,
in a Place he himfelf had fixed on, and gave Orders
for erecting a Monument over him, according to the
‘Fathion of that Country, viz. a large Tower, on the
Summit of which were placed five Balls of gilt
Copper.
Tue Meafures which Deby had taken, were not
ufelefs: The very Day that the Death of his Father
was made publick, he was acknowledged by the In-
habitants of Adequinezas King of AZoroceo, notwith-
dtanding the Attempts made to defeat it by his Bro-
ther Aduley Abdallab; who being informed of 8
that
Eee 3
that paffed by his Mother, waited in vain for a fa-
vourable Opportunity of having himfelf proclaimed
King ; and with this Deign he drew together fome
Troops in the Neighbourhood of Adequinez, expect-
ing that feven thoufand Men inthe City, who had
promifed to efpoufe his Part, would come and join
him: But the Vigilance of Dedy, and the Zeal of the
Bafhaw Mefael, hindered thefe from putting their
Defign in Execution; fo that the Troops which were
with Abdallah feeing this Reinforcement did not join
them, abandoned that Piince, leaving only fixtren
Horfe with him. This Defertion entirely ruined
his Affairs; fo that to fave his Life, he fled to a Sanc-
tuary : Deby cauled him to be fought for, and learn-
ing that he had taken Refuge at Fez, in the Mofque
of Muley Idris, which is held in great Veneration by
all the A~ehometans, he caufed it to be told that
Prince, That he might with all Safety repair to Court,
giving him his folemn Oath, That be would neither
burt him, nor any that foould accompany him. Abdallat
trufting to the King’s Promife, went to pay his Re-
fpects tohim : Hamet received him with Kindnefs,
and having pardoned him and embraced him, gave
him (as a Token of his Friendfhip) a very fine Horfe,
moft richly caparifon’d. It was by this Act of Gene-
rofity, that Dedy fignalized the Day of his Coronation,
the Ceremony of which was performed in the Mofque
of the great Seraglio..
THE principal Officers of the Army of the Blacks
affembled together, crying out, Long live the King f
and threatening Death and Deftruction to every one
who would not acknowledge him. Hamet Deby
went out from the Palace, to hear what they ig to:
; fay >
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fay : They told him, They were deputed by the Army
vf the Blacks to affure him they were ready to execute
bis Orders, and tf neceffary to foed their Blood in his
Service. “The King was fo pleafed with this Depu-
tation, that he gave thefe Officers two hundred and
twenty thoufand Ducats to diftribute among the
Black Army, and ordered that they fhould march
immediately againft the Alarbes of the Province of
Duquela, who had not acknowledged him.
Tue Deputies immediately returned to their
Camp, pitch’d about fix Leagues from AZahmora,
and diftributed among the Soldiers their Shares in the
King’s Liberality ; fo that the whole Army were
eager to march on the Expedition they were ordered
upon. .
THE Alarbes did not let themfelves be furprized :
Hearing of the March of the Blacks, they prepared
themfelves for an Engagement: The two Armies
foon came within Sight of each other: The Bilacks
refolved to attack the Alarbes in their Camp, which
was entrenched by Camels and other Animals, lying
down : However odd fuch a Fortification might ap-
pear, it was not without a great deal of Trouble that
the Blacks could force it: Both Sides fought with
great Fury; at length the Blacks, equal in Courage
to the Alarbes, and fuperior in Numbers and Difci-
pline, gained a fignal Vitory : Sixteen Thoufand of
the A/arbes were cut in Pieces, with the Lofs only to
the Victors of fourteen Hundred Men kill’d, and fix-
teen Hundred wounded. The Lofs of this Battle
prevented the Provinces, who had taken Part _
: the
(venss i).
the Alarbes, from continuing ‘in their Revolt: The
Black Army over-ran them in fifteen Days, without
meeting with any confiderable Refiftance. At length
the Alarbes, having defired a Sufpenfion of Arms,
fubmitted to the Clemency of the King ; who, tho’
he gave them a Pardon, did, notwithftanding, give
fecret Orders to his Generals to drain the Riches of
thefe rebellious Provinces, without, however, depo-
pulating them : And thefe Orders were indeed punc-
tually executed, being highly agreeable, to their na-
tural Avidity.
Tue firft certain Intelligence I had of the Ad-
. vancement of AZuley Hamet Deby to the ‘Throne,
= was by Alcayde Larbeet Benabbo Waldernjottlee, then
~ head Governor of that Province ; who, with 1800
Horfe, came one Morning within Mufket Shot of
my Caftle; to whom I fent one of my People, to
know his Pleafure, and to tell him, That in cafe he
had any Thing to fay to me, he foould advance with a
few only to the Foot of the. Wall, and let me know its
but if he, on the contrary, prefumed to draw his Main
Body on any farther, I foould be obliged to fire upon
them ; and which he well knowing to be my pofitive
Orders, and that I would actually have performed it,
he came with a very few, and told me, that the old
Emperor was actually dead, aud that Aduley Hamet
Deby was, by the general Confent of the Black Ar-
my, proclaimed at AZeguinez in his room.
-Tuis JMJuley Hamet was a Man of a molt ge-
nerous, though very fottifh Nature, being almoft
ever drunk, giving the Blacks a great deal of Gold,
and
[ wey
and many other valuable Prefents, infommuch tha¢
their Hearts were for the prefent entirely his: The
Governor advifing me to go dire€tly to him, and fub-
mit myfelf to his Will, telling me, Thar he thought
tt in-all’ Likelihood ta be by far the better and fafer
Courfe ; and which I alfo thinking to be fo, I (after
‘giving my People very ftrit Charge concerning the
Garrifon) accordingly did, the Governor going alfo
with me; and we were both of us very kindly re-
ceived by him, and I dire€ily ordered back, and again
to return with all my Men. :
Anp nowamTI foon about to leave my old, fo
very much beloved Habitation, for fuch as my future
Chanee might happen to allot for me ; and after
bidding adieu to all my rural Diverfions, and Merry-
makings thereabout, and fettling my Garrifons’ un-
der the Care of the Country People, who had been
before trained up to Arms, much in like Nature of
our ‘T’rain’d-Bands, we departed together aftera very
difconfolate Manner, though we got all well to A#e-
quinez, and were by the new Emperor all moft kindly
received, and each Man immediately prefented. with
new Cloaths, Fire Arms and Swords. .
Here we ftaid about four Days ; then we were
fent to Hartan, a Caftle about fix Miles out of the
City, where the Ambafladors of Foreign Princes ge-
nerally lodge at Night, before they make their pub-
lick Entrance into. A/equinez 3 where we ftaid fix
Days, and then: were fent to the Caftle of Agoary,
and from thence, after having been there twoMonths,
to the Siege of old Fez, the Inhabitants there and
. thereabout,.
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thereabout, om the Death of the old Emperor,
throwing off all future Allegiance to any of his Suc-
ceflors, as thinking themfelves thereby entirely deli-
vered from their fo long and grievous Bondage, now
ageooieae og no lawful King, killing Alcayde Boel
Rofea, their old Governor, boiling his Flefh, and.
— thrangn Spite) eating thereof, and coxopune
_ what they would not eat. of it to the Dogs, killing
alfo thirty-fix, of his head Servants, whom they faid
had ulfo committed many Infolencies againft them ;
All which coming to the Emperor’s Ears, he forth-
with ordered an Army, confifting of One Hundred
and ‘Twenty, Thoufand Men, Horfe and Foot, to be
in Readinefs to march from Adeguinex againft them,
myfelf and all my Men being ef the Number ; and:
it being but twelve Leagues, we marched the firft
Rey to Lmbaddumah, and the next, .in good Seafon,
to the Walls of the City, where we entrenched our-
felves: Here. we had fhrewd fkirmifhing with the
Malecontents in and out for forty-cight. Days, and
during which were flain on both Sides many Thou-
fand Men; when Muly Adujiada, one of the Empe-
ror’s Brothers, arrived at our Camp with a Com-
miffion from him to offer the Malecontents Quarter
on the following eafy Conditions, viz. That they
fhould immediately furrender, and promife to him
future Obedience ; on which he was ready to par-
don thém for all that was paft. Thefe Terms, in-
deed, they accepted of, thaugh. 1 think I never ree
any Thing of that Nature accepted with fo much
feeming Indifference, they bringing him out only
-fuch Prefents. to be carried back to his Brother as
shen pleafed.
AND
a ae
AND now we were all ordered to march back
again to A/equinez ; and though I loft in this Expe-
dition feveral of my Men, yet did I, as to my own
Part, efcape for this Bout unwounded, as indeed I
did foon after in an Affair of a far more dangerous,
though quite different Nature; and which, I hope,
will be by all allowed to bea very extraordinary Pro-
vidence, and which I fall, after I have finifhed the
fmall Remainder of my prefent Expedition, give
you a particular Account of. During our Stay at
Old Fez, came Captain Ruffel to New Fez, who |
lodged there a Night or two, vifited our Army, then
went to Meguinez, and ina little Time redeemed the
few Englifh Captives then there.
Anp nowam I foon about to give a Relation of
my fo wonderful Prefervation ; for I had but juft re-
turned with the Remains of our Army to Meguinez,
received of the Emperor twelve Ducats, and ordered
back tomy Wife at Ageory, (where I found I was
very likely to remain exempted from any other of
their bloody Actions for fome Time) before my
Mind ran altogether upon Efcape ; and after I had
with myfelf agreed on the Means, which was to ga
firft for Sallee, and if I could not ta my Mind {peed
there, to travel on to Marcegongue, to the Portugueze
Garrifon there, if I could bring it to pafs, feveral
to my Knowledge having before made their Efcapes
that Way, as indeed fo fhould I now, had I not moft
unhappily precipitated myfelf into the Enemies
Hands; for as I could find no Ship at Sa/lee, I tra-
velled -on to A4arcegongue, which is about three
Days and half’s Journey further to the Southward,
and where the fourth following Night I got, without
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any Accident, and, to my moft unfpeakable Joy,
even clofe Home, or within a Hundred Yards at. the
utmoft, of the Caftle Walls: And here we may
foon fee the Lubricity of Mundane Affairs ; for I
was, even in the Height of this my exceffive Joys
Jaid hold on by four Afcors, who had that Night been
upon the Plunder in the Gardens, but had been di-
fturbed therein by the Portugueze Centinels ; and
the Night being exceffive dark and windy, they in a
narrow Paflage between two Garden Walls ran
_ right againft me, and laid faft hold of me; when I
telling them I was a Chri/fian, (as fuppofing them to
be fome of the Portuguene, a very unhappy Miftake)
I was carried by them ina little Time back to their
main Guard, and confined in Irons, and early the
next Morning conducted by a ftrong Party of them
to Affamoare, a Town tothe Northward of Afarce-
gongue about five Leagues ; and where, after being
feverely handled by them, I was carried before djm-
mough Hammet Beorfimine, their then commanding
Officer, (Allemenfore, their Governor, being on Ac-
count of the People’s rifing againft him, fled to the
Emperor for Affiftance) who ordered the Moors to
put me in Prifon till his Return, when he told them
I fhould be very feverely punithed : When he returns,
faid they, who can tell how long that may be, or if it
may be ever; for if he meets with his Reward, the
Emperor will there cut off his Head, and therefore
this Fellow foall be put to Death direétly, No, (faid
“Beorfmine) [tell you be foall not now, neither fhail he
be at all till the Governor’s Return, and which may be
foaner than now you imagine : Upon which they
cry'd out, IL was a Chriffian, and about to make my
Efcape to Chrifitan-Land : ‘To which the Governor
mad¢ them no Aniwer, neither had they the Power
to
{ so |
to tell him that they had it from my own Mouth, at
their firft furprizing me: However, it was at laft
agreed between the Governor and them, that I fhould
be kept till their next Market Day, when I fhould
be put to Death in the Market-Place ; and as that
would be on thenext Thurfday, and it being then
Sunday, it could not make any Difference, and du-
ring that Time the Neighbourhood might be ac-
quainted with it, and come in and fee the Execution.
AND now am J, as any may fuppofe, under a
moft grievous Agony, the next Thur/day being the
peremptory Day fixed for my Execution ; and for
their better fecuring me, I was direGly guarded
away by a Multitude of thofe Blood-thirfty Villains,
and put into a very deep and dark Dungeon, there
to be kept withont any Allowance from them befides
Bread and Water, though the Governor fent to me
in the Evening a Servant (in whom he could confide)
with fome Meat, and to tell me that I fhould not be
under any Apprchenfion of Danger from the Mob,
for that he had truly confidered my Cafe, and that he
would deliver me from their Rage, even to the Ha-
gard of his own Life: And this he, by this Servant,
repeated twice every Day, till the appointed Day
for my Execution came ; and when he early brought:
me my Breakfaitthat fame Morning, (to which I then ©
had but little Stomach) he told me that I fhould not
defpair, for that his Mafter ftill continued his friendly .
Refolutions towards me, and that he was very well
affured he would deliver me out of their Hands, for
that he had often told him fo inthe moft pofitive
Manner.
THIs
Poe:
Tus I muft own moderated my Fear in fome
Meafure ; but as it was but the Promife of an Infidel,
and at fecond Hand, which made it the more uncer-
tain, how could I otherwife choofe but be fill under
avery great Agony, as indeed I really was, and more
fo, when about Ten o’Clock thefe Blood-thirfty Vil-
lains came, hawl’d me out of my Dungeon, and led:
me through the Street to the Market- Place, being:
attended by an infolent Mob, ftill increaling as we
went, fo that by the Time we got to the Market-
Place, which was fufficiently crowded by the Barba-
rians, to feaft their Eyes with the Blood of an: inno-;
cent Chrifian, I was almoft ready. to expire. And:
now, notwithitanding I faw Simmo Hammet amongit
them, as indeed I did fromthe Moment .of my be-
ing firft. hawl’d. out of my Prifon, yet could not I
help (at Sight of a long murdering Knife inthe Hand
ef the Executioner) being ftricken with a very great.
Terror ; nay, fo great indeed, as is fcarce pofiible to: |
be here exprefied ; for though Simmao Harmet had
faithfully promifed me all the Affiftance in his Power,
yet was it at fuch a Time very much to be doubted.
if that Power would be fufficient to fave my Life,
and .efpecially as I was expofed to the Rage of an in-
folent Mob ; who, though they be in fome Cafes ac-
counted good Servants, yet are they, I think, on the
other Hand,. (like Wind, Fire, and Water,) bad
Mafters ; therefore I expected nothing lefs than
Death. The Executioner had now his Knife ready
in his Right Hand, and with his Left Hand had taken
_faft hold of my Beard, the better to nold back my
. Head to cut my Throat ; when my Guardian Ange
ftepped: forth, and took.the Knife out of his Hand ;
and which, had. not he done that very: In{tant, .he
would, no Doubt, therewith have fooa taken from
as me
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me the fmall Remainder of Life that was left in me,
without any Addition to my Pain; for, in fhort, had
he then cut my Throat, I was before fo much-
ftricken with the Thoughts of immediate Death, that
I fhould not have felt it ; and though I had feen Death
before in fo many various Shapes, yet could not [
then for my Life behave with better Courage.
~ AND now is there a very hot Difpute between the
Meb, whether I fhould die or not being the Quef-
tion ; infomucn, that had not Simmo Hammet pro-
cured a good Party from the neighbouring Parifhes,
it would in all Likelihood (notwithftanding his Of-
fice) have gone very hard with me : However, it was
at laftagreed by all of them, that I fhould be again
fent back to my Dungeon, and there to remain ull
the next Market Day, and which they plainly told
the Governor fhould actually be my laft ; therefore
T fhould not feed myfelf with vain Hopes and Fan-
cies for that it fhould not then be in the Power of
him or any Body elfe to prevent it ; buton the other
Hand,. 1 was by the Governor altogether as much
encouraged, and plainly told not to defpair, for that.
he would deliver me out of their Hands, even to the
Hazard of his own Life; and left they might offer
me any foul Play in my Prifon, he flemnty pro-
mifed me that he would order a good Lock-out about
it; which you may imagine, as I had hitherto found
him fo pun€tual to his Honour, made my Jmprifon-
ment much more fupportable, though I was again
the next Market Day hawl’d by the Mob to the
Market-Phice, and by my Guardian Angel again
brought back, as indeed T was a third Time 3 after
which he came that Night to my Dungeon, defiring
. me
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me to be of good Courage, for that I fhould no
more be hurried by the Mob to the Market-Place 5
that he expected Elemenfore’s Return in a very little
Time, which he faid (as he underftood he had been
very favourably rescue by Mul Hammet Deby)
he hoped it would be to his SatisfaGiion, as well as
that of all his Friends ; however, it was to the full
Expiration of two Months before he cat me, and then
he came with fufficient Strength indeed, and in open
Day-light delivered me i ailes my see Prifon, and
fet me again at Liberty to depart where I would, out
of the Reach of my cruel Perfecutors : And as [
had p:omifed them, upon my Honour, to return
again to Agsory, fo I did, and got thither again (even
beyond my own Expectation) after the Abfence of
about four Months ; and, what I was much furpriz’d
at, I never once heard the leaft Syllable fram the
Emperor, concerning this my Attemspt to efcape.
Now am I, inftead of entering the Walls of
Marcegongue, returned fafe to my Family at Agoory 5
and which, though quits the Reverfe of my Inten-
tions, yet muft I ever acknowledge it to be, even in
the higheft Degree, very extraordinarily providential,
and what 1 could never have expected ; but I never
t 1d my Wife the leaft YYord af this Affair. W hillt
I was in the Middle of thefe Reflections, I received
an Account from Adgeguinez, that the Black Army
had all of them-revolted from A¢uley Hammmet Deby,
in Pavour of Muley Abdemelick, and that they had
furprized Aduley Hammet in his own Haufe, keeping
him there, under avery {triCt Guard, clofe Prifoner,
and, as moft thought, very fuficiently guarded, the’
he found Means to efcape: And 4bdemeiick, though
Og he
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he was then at Terridget, and it was fix Weeks before
he came, yet he was immediately proclaimed Emperor
of Adequinez, with the general Approbation ; and af-
ter, at his coming, no lefs received. “The firft Thing
he dic, was a bloody, and I think moft unaccountable
Revenge on Afulcy Hammet’s Servants, putting fo
many of them as he could light on inftantly to
Death, fending me with four Hundred Light Horfe
to the C:ftle of Tefixt, about two Days Journey
fhort of Aorecce, there to join fome other Troops,
to cover and demand the Emperor’s Dues: And this
(though my Heart was with Muley Hammet) I was
direCtly obliged to-do ; and on our firft coming thi-
ther, we Were received by the Inhabitants in feeming
Friendfhip, but foon finding them beginning to play
Tricks with us, as allowing us no more than half a
Pint of Flour a Day for two Men, and ufing us
thus for feven Days, and {tripping our People going
out fingly to fifh in their Rivers, which not in the
- feaft pleafing us, and knowing it in ourown Power
to redrcfs our own Grievanees, we fcon made fuch
Reprizsls as our Neceffities required; and they de-
ferved, killing about eighteen of them, and they fe-
ven or eight of us; and had not Bathaw Belide
Showey fuddenly alarmed us that AZuley Haminet
Deby was within a Day or two’s Journey of us with
thirty Horfe only, again going back to try his For-
tune at Avcquinez, we Pious! d foon hive taught them
better Manners: On which we left them, and went
dire@tly to him, and marched with him to A/eguinex,
where he expected fufficient Forces ready to receive
him, and where indeed the Black Army, who were
all again: revolted from Aduley Addemelick to him,
and all encamped without the Walls of the City,
waited his corhing, Aduley Abdemelick being within
with moft
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moft of the Citizens, making what Defence they’
could to keep him out, though at the End of forty-
eight Hours, or thereabout, Aduley Hammet’s Forces
fill encreafing, got in, and (after a faint Refiftance)
put vait: Numbers of them to the Sword, and hint
again in Poffeflion of the City ; but as to Muley
Abdemelick, he was obliged to feek further after, be-
fore he could find him, he being with a few fled:
thence through a bye Gate in the Night-time, as was
rumoured, to Old Fez; and which, indeed,. proved’
to be true, though on Confirmation of this Report,
and of his being there well received, he was, by a:
Body of Aduley Hammet’s Army, coniifting of fixty
Thoufand Men, foon followed, cofting much Blood,.
‘Time and Expence, before we could get him thence.
Now am I one in the above Number before O/4
Fez, Abdemelick being within ftrongly fortified, re-
folutely refolved, and well provided, bravely defend-
ing himtlf fix Months and fourteen Days, and du-
ring which fearce a Day pafled without tkirmithing
and much Slaughter on both Sides, though I am, to
my very great Satisfaction, even ta the Middle of
this Siege, unwounded, and fent very unexpectedly
(though to my great Content) to'Swllee with a few of
my Men, there to forward, with all poflible Expedi-
tion, the making new Carriages for our Field Pieces,
the old ones being, through the fo frequent Shocks
ot fuch weighty and high-metal’d Cannon, (thirty-
fix Pounders of Brafs) to that Degree fhaken, as
they were become in a Manner unferviceable ; fo,
after taking the Dimenfions, I. was hurried away
with a ftriét Charge therewith to return as foon as
poflible: The fecend Day I got thither, and deli-
yered
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delivered my Charge to Amberk Foalan, a Black, the
then Governor ; and by him the Shipwrights were
directly ordered to work, and to be as expeditious as
poflible ; yet, fuppofing all Hands at Work, the
Carriages being in all thirty-fix, they could not finifh
fo foon, but what I might again have Time fufficient
to gratify my Curiofity in the old Affair, and from
which I was thoroughly refolved never to defilt, fo
long as I could fee any Probability rematuing ; for
notwith{tanding my fo late miraculous Efcape from
the bloody Knife at Afjameore, I fay I was then tho-
roughly refolved to purfue it, and on my Road thi-
tar. from Fez, had fo confirmed my ‘Refolutions,
that rather than go back again to the Army, I was
fully determined to make all imaginary Efforts that
Way, be the Confequence what it would ; for as the
Country was then in very great Confufion, and the
Place I was then in very likely for my Purpofe, I
thought I could not defire a more favourable Oppor-
tuility.
AND now are mine Eyes bufily employed in look-
ing fharp out after the Ships then in the Harbour,
and my Thoughts (in eale I could not in any Proba-
bility perform my Dehgn by myfelf) on what other
Help I might with Safety pratee: me; and which,
indeed, I foon found to be the moft difficult ne
dangerous Point ; though to do it alone, if I could,
I was thoroughly refolved upon: Notwithftanding I
made all the Enquiry ] could, yet could not Ito my
Miad findany proper Affiftance, though on the other.
Hand fuch a glorious Opportunity offered, as could
not but be accounted, with the Affiftance of one
or two more, a very plandibble and eafy Undertaking,
and which was as follows : Early
the
eT
Oey ee
the next Morning, after my Arrival at Saliee, I took
a Walk to the Sea-fide, where Ships Boats generally
put in at, and where I met two Mbpori/h Sailors jutt
Janded with a few empty Barrels to fill with Water ;
and, after a very courteous Salute, I afk’d them what
Veflel they belonged to, their Lading, and whither
bound 3 to which they anfwered, 7o Juch a Sloop,
(pointing at her) boxnd to Santa Crux, and laden with
Guns, Bees-Wax, and Copper: Very well, faid [, but
have you on board no good Wine nor Brandy? No,
indeed, (faid they with a Sigh) fe far aswe can tell
of, and in fhort if there was, very little of it would
fall to their Shares. Alafs ! (Said I) poor Hearts,
/ thought that Sailors could not live without it s when
they, ihrinking up their Shoulders, telling me, There
was no Edelp for it, I left them, feeming for the pre-
fent to take no further Notice of them, till they had
filed the Water, and got the Cafks again into the
Boat, and then I care to them again, telling them,
Lhat I theught the few Cafks they had with them held
buta [mall Matter of Water for their Ship’s Company.
as being, no Doubt, (as the Sloop was upwards of
Jifty Tons) five or fix : O, faid they, we are in all
eight, though no more kept on the Veffel than us ito, the
other fix being cenftantly on Shore, watting a fair
Wind 5 our main Sea Store of Water is already laid
tn, and this (without our ufing of that) only for us iwe
Jor prefent pending 3 and if it is not enough, you
‘Frow tt is not very far to fetch more. Really (faid 1)
that (as none can tell how long your Ve oyage may be) ts
very well confidered, and, as all mujfp agree, to leave
than lack is by far the better Policy, turning from them
in a feeming Manner to be going of ; but I turned
me quick round again, and told them, Uf the Wind
fiowd out of the Wey till the next Day, it foould vo
: Very
f «6s 7
very hard if I did not find for them a Dram, or.@
Gla/s of Wine, feeming again to be going off; when
they, to my very great SatisfaCtion, and as indeed I
really expected, afk’d me, If 1 would go of with
them, and fee their Veffel :, Why really (faid 1) that is
what I would do with all my Heart, but that then I
could but badly {pare fo much Time 3 bewever, as I
had not been on board any Veffel for a long Time. and in
cafe 1 was certain of my being again ina little Time
brought back, I could even find in my Heart to go
with them. Well, {aid they, as to that it frail be
even as you please ; fol flepp’d into.the Boat, went
with them, was kindly received, and treated with
»fuch as they ‘had.. And after I-had employed my
Tongue, fo far as I thought fit, in telling them my
prefent State, as how I was one of the Empercr’s:
Soldiers, that under him I. bore an Office of fome:
Diftin@tion, &c. and mine Eyes in viewing the Di-
menfions of the Sloop, Sails, (ce. fo nigh as I could
guefs, and given them my hearty ‘Thanks for my fo
kind Welcome, I humbly entreated, them to put me
again on Shore ; and which they (after telling me
they fhould be very glad to fee me there again) in-
flantly did, kindly for that. Time bidding one ano-
ther farewell.
Now is my Heart to. that Degree enflamed,.
that every Drop of the Blood in my Veins, is
upon the Ferment, how I fhould. manage in_ this
Affair: To: do it alone, I found was impofiible,
and to communicate it to others, exceeding dan-
gerous ; though which Imuit be obliged todo, or
let all drop ; not but I could of myfelf eafily ma-
nage and overcome the two doors, but to fail and
3 navigate
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navigate the Veflel was the main Point. And now
am I at a greater Debate with myfelf than ever, who
thofe Affociates fhould be ; though I very luckily
thought on one in a very little Time, named Wij-
liam Eiujfzy, a Devonfbire Man, and whom I foon
determined in myfelf to be a very trufty and honeft
Man; and as ke was then one of my Soldiers, and
in Sadie with me, I could let him gradually into the
Secret when I pleafed ; and which indeed you may
fuppofe I did the frit Opportunity, for in lefs than
an Hour after I fingled him out, and begun to dif-
courfe him after the following Manner : Nous
Will, (faid I) I defire you will anfwer me fincerely te
@ Quejtion Lam about to afk you: That (faid he) you
may depend I will, be it what it will: Then (faid I)
do not you think yourfelf to be better off here, than ts
be in the Camp before Fez, where are, no Doubt, fome
even this LMoment expiring of their Wounds, others
receiving frefo ones? Would you not frill think it fafer
and better to be in your own Gountry ? And would you
nat rather run fome {mall Hazard to make your Efcape, °
than to go back again to fuch bloody Dogs,to rus
@ greater ? Yes, faid he, to be fure 5 and could I find!
any probable Means for it, they fhould never fee my
face in their Country more 3 that it war what his Soul
had for a long Time longed after; and he was ready,
even at the Expence of the op Drop of his Blood, te
make the Experiment : Then honefe Will, (faid 1) if I
am not very much miftaken, I have at laft found one;
and which, I do not in the leaf, doubt, by our prudent
Management, will anfwer both our Expectations, even
without our Lifing any Blood about the Adatter ; telling
him every Particular wherein it confifted, and which
he alfo approved of greatly, alledging the only Dif-
ficulty to be eur procuring of a third Perfon that
. paid ie, right
ee
might be trufted, for that two were not fufficient to
work the Veflel, and fteer her well over to the Spa-
nifo Shore, or to any other Coaft, in cafe the Winds
would not permit us to go thither. (ell, Wii, (faid
I) cannot you tell where to look ont for fuch a one ?
Yes, faid he, I could foon name one, but Icannet al-
together anfwer for his Fidelity ; tho’ I never beard
any Thing to the contrary of his being an honefi Man.
Very well faid 1, name him, and then we will confult
further iiheidar he may be trufied ; and then he
told me it was William Fchnften, his Comrade,a
Kentifh Man : Very well, {aid 1, then let us not trou-
ble our Heads about any ithe. till we have at a Dif-
tance proved him ; which we inftantly went about,
and on our finding him very defirous to make his
Efcape, we (on his {wearing Secrecy) let him into
it, and which he feemed very highly to approve of,
and eagerly prefled the Execution ; fo having con-
fulted and agreed on the Means, we were the next
Night fully determined to put it into Execution, and
which we ordered after the following Manner : I, ha-
ving as aforefaid very highly ingratiated myfelf
with the two Moors, and taking with me a Bottle
of Brandy, went down to the landing Place; and
where I had not been but a very little Time, before
they had from the Veffel (which was not more than
a hundred Yards off the Shore) difcovered me, and
came with their Boat directly to me, thinking (as
they faid) Lhad a Mind to go again on board : I told -
them, No, for that I had then only borrowed fo much
Tin, as to be as goodas my Word with ihem, feem-
ing to be inan extream Hurry; then privately convey~
ing them the Bottle, I turned me about to be again
going off, as if 1 had for that Time nothing further —
to fay to them ; when they calling to me, and ex-
prefling
f mt |
preffing their Gratitude in hearty Thanks, I turned.
me round again, and faid, Poor Hearts, [ wifh with
all my Heart it had heena greater Quantity ; but that
you know would at this Time of Day have been very
dangerous to bring ; therefore, if you will come To-
morrow Night by-Ten of the Clock, [will meet you
here, and bring with me fome more Brandy, Sugar
and Lemons, and (if you pleafe) two of my Comradesy
as honeft Cocks as any in Barbary, and we will go ow
beard together, and heartily enjoy ourfelves ; which
they feemed very highly to approve of, and earneflly
defired that I would not fail in it.
Now is my Heart by far more light, feeing my
felf, as it were, already iafely landed on fome Chrif=
tian Shore, flying to my Comrades with the News,
who feemed therewith (and efpecially ‘Johnffon) no
lefs pleafed than myfelf ; and that Night and the
next Day we got all our little Matters in Readinefgs.
as two Pair of Piftols, the Brandy, &e. and the
‘Time appointed for the Boat’s coming juft at Hand 5
when Fohn/fon (to my very great Surprize) told us,
He could not by any Means go that Night : However,
Hujfey and I went, and found the Adeors juft landed,
telling them, That as we had goad Reafan ta believe.
there were then fome People on the Watch, we had
_ deferred our going on board till the next Night ; how-
ever, in Point of good Manners, we had breught theism
a Couple of Bottles of Brandy, Sugar and Lemons,
which we thought ourfelves obliged to, rather than ta,
fuffer them to wait our coming in vain ; and with
which they were, no Doubt, highly delighted, tel-.
ling us, after a moft pleafing Manner, That they
would go on baard and drink our Eealths, and that we
tits . 2 might
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eught depend on their coming again the next Night;
asindeed they did, but Fohu/fon again difappointing
us, we could not then go w.th them no more than
the Night before ; therefore, after thanking them for
their Civility, defiring them to accept of a Couple of
Bottles more of Brandy, &&c, and telling them, Yat
when we faw the Way clear, we would give them
Notice, we parted, they again on board to make
merry, and we on the contrary back to our loathed
Apartments, in a very diflatished Mood , tho’ refol-
ving, before we let loofe our Rage, to lay us down,
df we could, to compofe ourfelves : But alas! Sleep
fled us, rifing again at Day-break as we lay down,
without fo much as clofing our Eyes ; when we .
went directly to Fohnffon, taking him afide, and tel-
ling him, That in an Affair of that Nature, to do as
he had done, was ufing both us and himfelf very ill 5
and which, hed he gone abut as heartily as he promis’d,
we frould in al! Likelihood have been then fafely landed |
on fome Chriftian Shore, quite out of the Power of the
Moors, end with a rich Prize, to the Value at leaf,
of five or fix thoufand Pounds, in our Paffeffiens which
might, in fome Measure, make us a Compenfation for
our fo long and grievous Captivity 5 and as the Op-
portunity was fiill in. our Power, we hoped he would
mend all, by going heartily about it that Night : ‘To
which he, after a fhort Paufe, anfwered, That he had
again cenfidered maturely of the Affair bimfelf/, and
that he found it to be then quite different from what it
had firft appeared ta him 3 therefore we fbould urge it
to him na Hen Se that it was only a _foalifh Whim-
fey come inta our Heads, impoffible te be executed 5 and
Trem which, if we did not defif?, he would inform the
Governor, Why thou vile Villain, {aid 1, thou can’ft
not Jurely be in good Earneft, No, {aid he, but ie
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Ce 4
Tam, and confirmed it with many horrid Oaths 3.
when I (being quite overcome with Paflion) could:
no longer forbear him, but directly drew my Sword,
and gave hima very deep Cut a-crofs his Face, which.
‘I verily thought, and really hoped, had done his Bu-
finefs, at leaft fo far as that it might not be in his
‘Power to tell any Tales ° However, the Dog re-
covered ; but let him come Home when he will, [I
warrant ‘He will bring with him the Mark, which
I told his Sifter, who was with me in the Ri-
ver of London, enquiring, Jf Tbad feen him in Bare
bary ; together with, rat it was that he complained
of ta the Governor about me; how I got off a him
confined chefe Prifener ; for after my giving him this
fhrewd Cut, (which I mutt own to be intended i in
another Manner) he went dire€tly to the Governor,
holding his Wound fo clofe ee as he could,
_(tho’ bleeding prodigioufly) complaining againf me,
and telling my Reafons for ferving him G “And then
I was forthwith ordered before the Governor by
a File of Mufqueteers ; who offering to lay hold on
‘me, I put them by, telling them, Tiss they fhould
not, at their Peril, lead me like a Dog, for that J
had done nothing any wife deferving of fuch Usage :
However, if they would walk on before, i would fol-
low them 3 and which they confenting to, I was foon
before the Governor, who looking at me very fierce+
ly, and turning up the White of his Eyes fullenly,
told me, That he never thought me to be fo mucha
Villain, always having bad of me before a very high
Opinion 3 that he thought v3 would be the laft Perfor
guilty of fuch an A&ion : Pray Sir, {aid 1, of what
Aétion? Of what Action, faid he, why you know al-
ready better than myfelf and therefure I do not fee
sagt Occafion there is of my repeating ti: However,
iy
3b fic é
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Since you plead Ignorance, I defire to know what could
énduce you te cut Johnfton crofs the Face : As to my
eutting bim a-crofs the Face, faid 1, I cannot deny;
and as to the Inducement, Iwas only forry that it had
noi ended his Days. Avery pretty Inducement indeed,
Jaid he, to ill a Adan, for wot jetning with you im
your wicked Defign in running away with the Sloop and
| Cargee: I run away with the Sloep and Cargee, taid I,
the Villain could net havs the Impudence ta fay fo: No,
faid he, bat bs will fay it te your Face, and you Jfrall
be punifoed in a@ Way deferving af fe neterious @
Crime, ordering the Guards to carry me directly off,
and to put me into fafe Cuftady ; when I bumbly
entreating to be heard, and that before he let loofe
his Rage, he would be pleafed to enquire into the
Truth of this fecond Part of Fehn/fon’s Story, it being
quite reverfed and notorioufly falfe, he afk’d me,
What I could fay to juftify myfelf ? V told him, [could
fy enough ta convince him, and all other impartial
Judges, of my Innocence 5 and which, if I did not
snake very plainly to appear, hy moft undeniable Evi-
dence, he foould proceed againf? me, and Iwas willing
to undergo fuch Punifhment as the Nature of the Cafe
deferved, and his Excellency fhould think fit to infitct ;
and that in order thereunto, he would be pleafed to fuf-
fer Johnfton to be confronted, and in both our Prefence
to examine fuch Evidence as fhould be by me produced:
At which Fobnflon was directly ordered forth, and
foon appeared in a terrible Condition ; and being
alk’d, If L had not often prompted him to run away
with the Sloop and Cargo, and if I had nat, on bis
refufing to join me in fo foul an Adzion, given him
that Cut, be as well as he could anfwered in ibe Affir-
mative : At which the Governor, looking again at
me very fiercely, faid, Now are not you a very pretty
Fellow ?
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Fellow 2 Itold him, Yes, and that when he had heard
my Evidence, I did not doubt but what he would think
me fo in good Earneft; and for me to te}! him myfelf.
that he had the Word only of a perjur’d Villain, who
would not ftick tofay any Thing, even to the Prejudice
of his own Father, fo he might thereby accomplifh his
wicked Defigns, would fignify nothing : Not but he
had moft bafely reverfed the Story, himfelf being
the only Aggreflor ; for that he had of a long Time
back continually teaz’d_meto join with him in Efcapes
and very particularly during the laft three Days, con-
cerning the Sloop ; and at laft, finding that notwith-
ftanding my often Denials and Reprefentations, | could
not be at Quiet forhim, and his fo wicked Importuni-
ties, | gave him the Cut: And of all which, if his
Excellency doubted, I could make moft undeniable
Proof, by Means of another Perfon, whom he alfo
prompted to the fame Undertaking. Indved / faid the
Governor, What may the Perfon’s Name be ? 1 told
him, Vijliam Huffey : And can you produce him, faid
he ; Yes, Sir, faid 1, Ican, for heis one of the People
whacame withme from¥ez far the Carriages,and can-
not be far off, but very likely in the Yard with the Car~
penters, where my Men generally, by my Orders, gave
thetr Aitendance. Then a Meffenger was fent for him,
and foon returned, and Huffey with him, ‘Jobn/fon be-
ing all this Time, no Doubt, in a fearful Condition,
it being then too late for him to bring in Huffzy for
a Party ; through which Omiffion, Hauj/ey’s Evidence
carried with it by far the greater Weight, and he
had his Leffon, as you may fuppofe, at his Tongue’s
End, tho’ he faid never a Word, till he was by the
Governor afked, if he knew any Thing concerning
Fobnfion’s Wound, and of the Party giving it When
he anfwered, Yes, it was Pel/ow, and that if Thad
ge not
i aye 4 :
mot given it, he had fully defiened to have given it
himfelf: Bri faid the Governor, for what Reason?
For what Reafon, Sir, faid he, for: Reafon enough, I
think ; and no Doubt, when Ihave told yiu the Truth
ef the Story, you will alfa allow it - Very well, {aid he,
proceed, and let me know the very Truth of the Mat-
ter + Then the Matter, Sir, in fhort is even this s
“¢ Fobnften and myfelf are Soldiers, you muft know,
“© under Pellow’s Command, and therefore confe-
_ *€ quently generally together; and for a Jone Time
-*© back I have not been at Quiet, on Fohnfien's tre-
‘«* quent importuning me to join with bim in Efcape,.
‘«¢ and very particularly fince coming to Salles, in
‘$6 carrying off a certain Sloop ; alledging, that Pe/-
© Jow had already given his Word, and that if I
' 8¢ would ltkewife confent to it, it weit) be Strength
“ fuficient : This, Sir, I muft confefs very much
s¢ furpriz’d me, I having always found Pellow very
* eafy under his. prefent Condition ; and as not
‘© knowing what fuch Falfities might tend to, I could
<* not be quiet till I had it either confirmed or de-
€¢ nied from Pe/low’s own Mouth, and for which I
«© this Morning found an Opportunity, and told
$¢ Pellow in Fobnfion’s Hearing, what he had faid of
§ him : Indeed (faid Pe/ow in a very great Surprize)
6 Will, had not la very good Opinion of you,
“66 T fhould have no {mall Difficulty with myfelf to
«6 believe it ; and now I cannot very well tell what
«© to make of it, it. being, I think, almoit impoflible
“¢ for any one to invent fuch an abominalile Faltity,
*¢ looking fternly at Jobuffon, and afking him, if it
‘6*: was true; to which he making no Anfwer, Pel-
‘6¢ Jow afk’d him, what he meant by it, thus (the
*¢ better to colour his fo wicked Defigns) to make
s¢ Ufe of his Name; at which Fchn/fow being fo
8: confounded,
pet ee a eee
<¢ confounded, that he could make no Anfwer, Pel-
«< Jow faid, you Dog, you are going the Right Way
** to take away my Life; tell me what could induce
€¢ you to it, or if ever I had any Difcourfe with you
*¢ tending to the Affair 5 Speak, had I, or had f
£¢ not ; and being flill filent, Pedlow drew his Sword,
«¢ and gave him the Cut ; and this, Sir, is the very
e Truth of the Matter.’—Here the Governor
es was filent for fome Time, looking very fiercely
at Fohnfon, and at laf telling him, that he could not
imagine how he could invent fuch a damnable Lye!
and which, had not Providence interpofed, by Hu/-
fey’s being let into the Secret, muff in all Likeli-
hood have taken away the Life of an innocent Per-
fon, ordering the Guards to carry him off and put
him in Irons ; end, as for me, their Attendance on
me was no longer neceflary, for that I had fufi-
ciently cleared myfelf, and that I was again at Liber-
ty to depart when and where I would. |
Now having over-reached Yohnfon, and for his
Villainy procured him aclofe Prifon, and of which
I think he was in more Refpects than one highly
deferving, and which (as proper for the keeping the
Knowledge of the Affair from the Publick whereby
it might probably fpread and reach the Emperor’s
Ears) was I think the fitteft Place for him: How-
ever, to prevent all this, humbly defired the Go-
vernor to pardon him, and that he might in the Pri-
fon be taken Care of, and cured of his Wound, and
that the Matter might be all hufh’d ; for notwith-
ftanding he had fo deait by me, yet would not I on
any Account (as I was then fo far in the Emperor’s
-good Graces) that he fhould know it, thereby to give
dig him
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him any Uneafinefs, or the leaft Doubt of my Fide-
lity 5 therefore, pray Sir, faid I, forgive bim, and be
pleafed to accept of the [mail Maiters in this Purfes
asan Acknowledgment ef fo great a Favour, giving
hint forty Gold Ducats, (which I had been a long
‘Time before {craping together) and which he very
greedily accepted of, telling me, with a pleafed
Countenance, to keep my own Secrets, and all fhould
be well. |
AND here, before T proceed any further, I hall,
by Way of a fhort Disreffion, afk my Readers if
they think we ufed “fohn/jon in any wile ill, or other-
wife than they would have done, had it been their
own Cale, unlefs by my extraordinary Care of him,
after he was made a Prifoner, which I think to be no
Way fuitable to bis Deferts, notwithftanding our fo
wrongtully turning the Tables upon him; therefore,
I fay, the Nature of the Cafe being duly confidered,
and when tell them that it. prolonged my Capti-
vity eight Years, Lhopemy Treatment of him will
be. rather approved of, than cenfured. Though
FHuffey was fo lucky to get off ina fhort Time after,
and he has, I am fure, Gratitude enough to acknow-
ledge that I was therein very inftrumental, though it
was not my Fortune (I having yet a much longer and
very fevere Servitude to encounter with) to go with
him, he getting with Succefs to Adarcegongue, and
thence ina Portugueze Ship to Lifoon: But to re-
turn,
THE Carriages being all now finifhed, and all of
us ordered to be as the next Morning in Readinefs to.
depart,
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depart, T that Night waited on the Governor, to
thank him for all his paft Favours, and to intreat his
future. Remembrance of my fo late Misfortunes, and
as Fabnfon was not then able to undergo the Journey,
she would order fuch Care of him, as to fend him af-
ter us, fo foon as he was ; not that I ever defired to
fee him any more, but in cafe he might happen to be
required at our Hands, we might know where to find
him ; though indeed he never after cared to come
where I was, neither did I fee him but very feldom.
Now are we on the Road with the Carriages, ha-
ving with usa fufficient Number of the Inhabitants
from Sallee, to the next Town, and fo from Town
to Town, relieving one ancther till we got well to
the Camp, and where I was by Aduley Lamet moft
kindly received, and told by him, That he had -
en Account from Bafbaw Belide Showey, of my Rea-
dine[s in following him from Telient, in order to affift
him in bis Reftoration at Mequinez, and that he
would always bave a kind Remembrance thereof. And
now are our Cannon all mounted, and for a Menth’s
Time we kept almoft a continual Battery upon
the Town ; and though I had the good Fortune to —
efcape hitherto unwounded, yet was it my Mifhap,
foon after, the Malecontents fallying, to receive two
Mufket Shots within a Minute’s Time of each o-
ther, one paffing through my Right Thigh, and the
other through my Left Shoulder, and at fuch a
Time as I had but the Moment before received a
‘fhrewd Cut in my Left Hand, and difengaged myfelf
from a Party fighting Sword in Hand. And now am
I in a bloody Condition, I being tapp’d in three feve-
ral Places, infomuch, that from my exceflive Lofs e
3 } Blood »
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Blood from them all, I really thought that I could nof
have long furviv’d it; and thought the Wound in
my Hand might not bein any wife reckoned dange-
‘rous as the debe: yet could not the Surgeons pre-
vent its bleeding little or more for three Days, tho’
they ftaunched the others in a very little Time.
Now am I laid on a Bier, in order to be carried to
‘an Hofpital in New Fex, forthe better: Conveniency
of Cure ; and which Muly Hamet feeing. he rode
forth, and afk’d who I was, and after being told, he
faid- he was very forry for me, and that it was his
Pleafure I fhould be pardcalaely taken Care of, and
ordered three Surgeons to go along with me, and to
ufe the beft of their Skill for my Recovery, and a
Genoele Servitor to be always in my Apartment with
me, giving me out of his Jibberas or Purfe, (which
he had generally hanging at his Saddle before him)
fifty Gold Ducats, and ftrily charging that I fhould
have a Quarter of frefh Mutton brought in every
Day, or any Thing elfe the Surgeons fhould ap-
prove of for my $ Suphitances when, after-wifhing me
‘well, he turned from me, Sud my Bearers proceeded ;
and they had not carried me far, before a AZoor (jutt
arrived in the Camp from Agosry) ftepped forth, tel-
ling me, That he was forry to fee me in that Condi-
tian, that he hoped my Wounds were not mortal, and fo
forth ; thet though he never cared to be the Bearer of
all Newt yet he could not forbear telling me that my
Wife nd Daughter were bath very lately dead, dying
within three Days one of the other : One of “Fob’s
Comforters indeed ! though I muft own that it gave
me very little Uneaf inefs, as I thought. them to
be by far better off than they coul\. have vier
Ths
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this troublefome World, efpecially that Part of it 5
and I was really very glad that they were delivered
out of it, and therefore it gave me very little Unea-
finefs.
Now am I brought to my Apartment, and my
Wounds in my Thigh and Shoulder were carefully
fearched and drefled, and the Blood flaunched ; yet,
I fay, they could not with all their Skill (though they
applied all the Medicines they could think of) prevent
that of my Hand from bleeding for three Days, and
which was at lait ftaunched by applying (as I may
_fay) fome of the fame Blood ; it being firft put into
a Receiver, and by a continual Stirring overa Pan
of frefh Coals, burnt into a Powder, and a {mall
“Matter thereof laid on the Wound, put an End to
the Bleeding ; which I thought might notbe unufe-
ful to mention. Now am I in a very low, pain-
ful, and difconfolate Condition, and my Spirits funk
to that Degree, that I really expected every Day to
be my laft ; and, indeed, had I not by Way of my
Gensefe Attendant borrowed a Point of the Law, I
muit actually have been dead in a very little Time,
it being otherwife impoffible for me to get over it 5
for notwith{tanding I was fo miferably low, and my
fo often telling my Surgeons of it, yet would not
they allow me to drink any Thing ftronger than
Water ; therefore, I confidering my own Cafe, told
my Keeper (whom I knew to be a trufty Perfon)
_ Tf he did not inflantly lack out for fome comfortable
Wine for méy or fomething that was fironger by Way
of Cordial, [could bold it but very little longer 3 there=
fore, laid 1, pray baften and fee what you can da for.
me, giving him a Gold Ducat, with which he de-
| parted
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departed, and wag ina very little Time back again
with two Leather Bottles concealed under his Robe,
the one full of Brandy. and the other of excellent
old Malaga Wine, with which I that Night made
pretty free, drinking 1 believe of both Sorts, asa
_ Beginning, about a Pint, and fleep’d after it a hear-
ty Nap, [not having fhut my Eyes before from the
Time I was wounded ; and at my awaking, | found
myfelf another Man, my Spirits being to that De-
gree exhilerated, that never was there a more fud-
den and furprizing Alteration ; and then I took ano-
ther moderate Tiff, by which I was foon again
compofed, and flept till the next Morning Sun-
rifing, when my German came to look at and drefs
my Wounds, aiking me how I felt myfelf, and if I
had taken any Reft: Itold him, Yes, I had /lept
many Hours, and that I found myfelf very much re-
vived. Very well, faid he, I am glad of it with all
my Hdeart: But Sir, faid 1, I hope you will be pleafed ©
to allow me fomething by Way ef Cardial, to cheer my
Spirits, for you cannat but fuppofe them, after fo great
a Lofsof Blood, to be very hw: Well, faid he, I
will confider of it; but firj? let me feel your Arm
Wrift ; when he ftarting back as one in a very
great Surprize, Something ({fays he) te razfe your
Spirits 5; why your Spirits are now ten Times higher
than they were Yefterday, therefore I hope there will be
no Occafion fer any Spiritucus Liquors, and I very
heartily wifh there may not, it being the moft dange-
rous Thing in the World ; therefare, faid he, I would
by all Means have you ta content yourfelf without. it
till To-morrow, and if I find any further Occafion
for it then, than Ido at this Time, I gtve you my Ho-
nour to procure feme for you, and to traf? to your's
for the Event. V told him, ft was very well, and that I
fooula
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Should be thereby highly obliged to him, defiring him te
look atmy Wounds: To which he anfwered me,
That be would willingly firft fray a little longer, for
that be every Moment expeGed his Brethren + who in-
deed came ina very little Time after, and by Con-
fent fell to opening the Bandage, and after a very
fhort Time looking at that in my Shoulder, (which
as being fo near my Heart, they thought to be by far
the moft dangerous) they in a very pleafing Manner
told me, “hat they had never before feen, in fo fhort
a Time, fo great an Alteration for the better ; for
whereas it was the Day before inflamed to avery high
Degree, it was then wonderfully altered, and the In-
flamation almoft quite of ; and then they looked at
the other two, and found them the fame; fo after dref-
fing me, they (having many other Patients to goto) de-
parted together; but the German coming hattily back
again, told me, That he really thought my Wounds
to be in a very promifing Way, and fo it would be
mere Madnefs in me to drink any Spirituous Liquors,
till the Inflamation was quite over, and they had
brought them to a better Matter; and which, if I did, .
it would not only be the undoing of what they had hi-
therto done for me, but put it out of the Power of all
the Surgeons in Barbary to cureme. Weil, faid I
with a Sigh, I remember you told me fo before ; and
then he left me ; but he was not. gone cut of the
Room twa Minutes, before I and my Attendant
drank each of usa Bumper to his good Health, and
between us, before Night, finithed all the Wine,
burning moft of it with Sugar and Spices, which
threw me into a gallant Sweat and found Sleep, and
in which I continued the bef Part of that Day, and
at Night had our Wine Bottle replenifhed again,
when I took another hearty Vif, and fell again into
, a found
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a found Sleep, napping it in and out till Six of the
Clock the next Morning, when my Surgeons came
in a full Body to drefs my Wounds; which they in-
ftantly went about, and itill found them growing bet-
ter in a furprizing Manner, faying that the Inflam-
mation was quite off, and there was a very good Di-
geftion, afking me, If I did not find my Spirits to be
very much reftored? Itold them, Yes, to a very high
Degree: Well, (faid the German) keep but a good
Ficart, and never fear of a Cure in a little Time;
and after telling mein alow Voice, He would bring
me fone Wine the next Morning, he departed with his
Brethren.
Now is my Stomach again craving after Meat,
and foon began to relifh it tolerably well, eating a
good Mefs of Mutton Broth two or three Times a
Day ; and which, with the Continuance of my
Wine, and a good Bow] of Cufcafloce now and then,
J found to bring me on apace. My German coming
again the next Morning before any of the reft,
bringing with him a Bottle of Wime concealed un-
der his Robe, after fending my Attendant out of the
Room, he afk’d me, Jf I would venture to take a
Tiff? I told him, Yes, if he pleafed, with all my
Heart : Then (faid he) here take the Bottle aad drink,
giving itinto my Hand; though after it had been
but a very fhort Time at my Mouth, he cry’d out,
(Held! hold! you have drank enough, when I took it
off, telling him, That [thought it to be very excellent
Wine, and that I found it very comfortable. Well,
faid he, don't you by any Means make too free with it,
but now and then take a little by ay of Cardial ; to
~ which Thad but jul Time to tell him; That tt was
. Very.
fF gee]
very well, and hid the Botde in my Bed Cloaths, be-
fore my other Surgeons came in, and fell to opening:
my Wounds, ftill “finding them for the better, and.
foon again left me ; te I fell to Work with the
Doétor’s Bottle ; and which (as being but a Quart)
my Attendant and I drank clear out that fame Days
defizning no longer to impofe upon my Benefactor,
but to bring him in the next Morning, if I could, for
“a third Man ; and when he coming again bef fore any
= the reft, very opportunely afk’d me, how the Wine
had agreed with me,-and if [thought tt had done me
no 2 ee Harm ! faid 1, No, no; but bas, [ thing,
an the contrary done me a great deal of Giod, and which
(if I had mare of it) you would as,wellas myfeif , fon
find to be true, and to work a perfec? Cure on me in a
very little Time. Some more of it / faid he in a feem-=
ing Surprize, hy you have not, I hope, finifh’d all £
brought you Yefterday : Indeed, Sir, {aid 1, 1 bave, and
to be plain with you, a Sees deal more, or I fhould not
be now here to tell you fo: Now here, faid he, to tell
‘me fo; in foort that you are, is the greateft Miracle:
And when I told him the real Truth, how much [ had
drank, the Benefit I had received by it, and how I
“muft have been inevitably dead without it, el), faid
he, Ged is all fufficient, but of all the Ways fever
faw or heard of curing Wounds before, your's is the
moft uncommon one. hen I called to my Attendant
‘to bring forth one of our own Bottles, a drank a
hearty Tiff to my Dodtor’s good Health, delivering
him the Bottle, and he as heartily pledged me, telling
roe, that he thought it to be very excellent Wine, and,
that he was very glad it had fo well agreed with me;
however, be believ’d that no Body de had eve
been that Way cured. O Doétar, faid 1, you are ia ae
very much mistaken, I having many Times befare made,
the Experiment on myfelf Ver y well, faid he, L hope
Q all
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wll this is under the Rofe : Yes, yes, Doétor, faid I,
that you need not fear, and if you will be pleafed to
geome in with us for a third Man, we may innocently
enjoy ourfelves over a Bottle, without doing any Harm
to any Body elfe: Very well, {aid he, I underfiand
gou, and as to my Anfwer Iwill give it you in the
Evening. His Comrades coming in at once upon
us, we had not Time then to talk any further about
at; and after they had drefled me, and told me that
mv Wounds were bettering apace, they again for
that Day left me. And now is my German Dotor
foon about to come in for a Snack: Coming at the
Beginning of the Night, when all was pretty quiet,
and bringing with him two Bottles of excellent
old Adéalaga Wine, he fat down, took a Cup out of
his Pocket, fill’d it to the Top, and drank it off to
the good Health of our Chriffian Friends, myfelf
and my Attendant following his Example ; and after
we had drank a Round or two more, he told me that
he thought I might think myfelf very happy under my
prefent Circumitances, and to be much better off
than agreat many of my Comrades, who, during
my lying Sick, had been expofed to many Dangers
and Hardfhips, and a great many of them Slain ; of
which indeed. Ihad before repeated Advices, and
therefore my Life was in all likelihood intirely owing ~
to my Wounds ; and which, indeed, was very likely
to be true, for during my Cure, were many “Thou-
fands on both Sides flain, and amongitthem of my
{mall Number, at leaft one hundred and fifty,
Now are my Wounds healing apace, being able
again to fit up and walk a little, and my Strength
every Day very apparently increafing ; infomuch,
. that
C ye7 jd |
that my Surgeons told me, Tat they did not doubt
but that I might in three Weeks more be again ina Ca-
pacity to return te my Duty in the Army ; though in-
deed I thought myfelf fit at the Fortnight’s End,
and fhould certainly have made my Appearance then,
had not they prevented me telling me, That they
thought my ound to be frill too green, and not fuffi-
ciently harden’d, and therefore I was obliged to re-
main there another Week; at the end of which I
waited with my Surgeons on Muley Hamet who
feemed to be highly pleafed at my Recovery, and
thereof gave my Surgeons very liberal Acknowledg-
ments, ordering me immediately back again to: my
old Apartment ; for as the Malecontents were. then
reduced to the loweft Ebb, he faid he could not fee
what Service I could be of there; and after making
moft humble Acknowledgment, for his fo very great
Care of me, I obey’d his Orders, went back, and
there continued fix Days longer, at the end of which
he fent me word by one of iny own People, that the
City had furrender’d, and that it was his Pleafure I
fhould come directly, and fee the Rebels march outs
which fo well as they were able, I foon did, being
really all of them reduced to a very miferable Con-
dition ; yet, notwithftanding, many of them (efpe-
cially their Ringleaders) had their Heads chopp’d off
on the Spot, and Abdemeleck, with forty princpal
en were put into fafe Cuftody, in order to be
fafely condudted by the Army to Mequinez.
Berore Abdemeleck was brought into Hamet De-
by’s Prefence, he was fearch’d by the Captain of his
‘Guards, and fome other Officers, who founda Poy-
niardand a finall Piltol, conceal’d in his Pockets,
oe? which
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which they took away, and then condu&ted him into
_Hamet. Deby’s Tent, who inftead of venting his
Wrath and Vengeance upon him, contented hime
felf with making fome Reproaches, and thofe without
‘“Sharpnefs : What /fays Ae, after having taken the
Crown from me, are you now cruel enough to feek
to take away my Life ?
Now have we a general Mufter, by which we
found we had loft inall on our Side in this Siege
thirty thoufand Men ; then'we ftruck our Tents,
and with the Remainder of our Army marched with
our Prifoners to Ad¢equinez, where the forty principal
Men were beheaded in the Market-Place, which
“was a much milder Fate than thofe met with, who
were before taken in A¢equinez ;.for there the Gover-
nor of the City, and fome of the principal Men,
were nailed by their Hands and Feet to one of the
Gates of the City ; in which miferable Manner they
lived three Days, except the Governor of the City,
whofe Hands and Feet were fo torn by the Weight
‘of his Body, (being a lufty Man) that he fell down
from the Gate fome Time after he had been nailed
. thereto ; upon which they had the Mercy to difpatch
him with their Sabres. And.at this Fime, indeed,
‘the Emperor ordered the Governor of Sailee to be
ferved in the fame or worfe Manner ; for he had frft
his Skull cracked with the Blows of a Piftol, and was
then hung up by the Feet at one of the Gates of the
City ; in which deplorable Condition he remained
alive four Days, *
AppeE-
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ABDEMELICK was put under the Cuftody of ©
Emfbael, the Black Bathaw, who w2s ftri€tly charged
to keep him clofe Prifoner in his own Houfe, till fur=
ther Orders ; and indeed he never got free from
‘thence, being at the End of fix Weeks {trangled by
‘two of his own Brothers ; and left he might not be
‘dead enough, they gave him each a Stab with their
long murdering Knives thro’ his Body, LAduley Hamet
Deby dying about an Hour before him : His Death
was occafioned (as was by all fuppofed) by his drink-
“ing a fmail Bowl of Milk at his Entrance into Me-
guinez from Fez, (according to Cuftom, after obtain-
ing any fignal Victory) it being poifoned by Aduley
Abdallah’s Mother, in order to clear her Son’s W ay
to the Empire, he languifhing from the very Moment
of his taking it, even to his laft Hour 3 and Aduley
Abdallah was accordingly proclaimed as foon as) Ha=
met Deby was dead, (his Mother Lela Coneta, who
had been one of the Wives of Aduley Swine, or L{h-
mael, having (by diftributing three hundred thou-
fand Ducats amongft the Black Army, befides hfty
thoufand given by her own Hands’to their chief OF-
cers) engaged them in his Intereft, hotwith{tanding
Hamet Deby left a Son named Muley Boufer, who
was capable of reigning; whom Méuley Abdallah
kept in Prifon fome Time, but he at laft found an
Opportunity to efcape.
| Now am I to prepare mytelf for fwimming thro?
a freth Sea of Blood, the Scene opening in new and
deeper Colours indeed , for though Muley Abdallah
wasin my ‘Time driven out twice, yet wes there
fearcea Day pafied witlrout his murdering fome of
his Subdje@s, more or lef ;-he having, I. believe,
ete kilPd
[ apo 7
kil?d with his own Hands (befides thofe moft unmer-
cifully butchered by the Hands of his Executioners)
at leait Fifty Uhoufand Men, he having his old Fa-
the (the Devil) fo riveted in his Heart, as that it
was impoffible for any Body to tell when he was in
Jeft or in Earneit, being always bent on bloody En-
terprizes, and unhappy I, feldom exempied from
_ Making one therein, I mean in hisinhumane bloody
Wars; but I was for the prefent fent again to my
old Station at dgcory, and where I had a fhort Inter-
val of about fix Wecks, often refleCting on the Lofs
of my Wife and Daughter ; for though I faid before
their Death gave me very litcle Uneafinefs, yet could
not I help now being under Concern for them, and
efpecially the Child, who always us’d (at my coming
Home wounded) to clafp her litthe Arms about my
Neck, hugging and bemoaning her poor Father, and
telling me, That [fheuld no more go into the Wars,
hs that foe and her Mother would go with me to Eng-
— land, and live with her Grandmother. Thefe Reflec-
tions, I fay, gave me fome Concern: however, I
foon endeavoured to forget them ; for, in fhort, What
could Ido? To bring them back again, I knew was
impoffible, and as they were (as faras Jay in my
Power) inftru@ted in the Knowledge, and I hope
true Belief in Curist, and my Intentions were fully
bent upon Efcape, I was really glad that they were
dead ; but IJ plainly told myfelf, hat as I could find
in my Heart in their Life-time to endeavour to leave
the Country, [had now no Room left for Excufe,
but ought to purfue it; and therefore I was tho-
roughly refolved to lay hold of all Opportunities, and
as foon as my Strength was a little better reftored
again, to pufh all for all. My Refolutions. thus
{etiled, 1 am again at Peace. with myfelf, dili-.—
gently
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gently employing my Time in bathing my Wounds
with fuch Ointmentsasmy Doétors had direéted me3
bur [ was again ona fudden ordered with all my Men
for Mequinez : and though I was in a very indif-
ferent Condition, fore againft my Inclinations, and
full Pwo of the Clock in the Afternoon when my
Orders came, yet was I obliged to obey them, andto
be there, if poflibly I could, that fame Day 3 and
which (though very fhort Notice, it being in the
Month of July) T pun@ually performed, we being
all on Horfeback by Four, and without any Hurry
got to Mequinez in good Seafon ; where I found
Muley Abdallah at the Head of an Army, confilting
of 140,000 Men, chiefly Blacks, ready to march for
Old Fex ; with whom we were joined, and early the
next Morning marched with them, the Malecontents
having gathered together there, refufing to acknow-
ledge him, and yet fetting up no one elfe ; fo thatI
verily believe it was merely for the Sake of Rebellion,
and I eafily forefaw, that if they continued obftinate,
their Blood would be pour’d out like Water ; and I
muft own I heartily wifhed (feeing they were of fo
crucla Nature) that their infatiate Eyes might be
never fatisfied with Blood, till the laft of them had
feen the laft Drop of all the reft, himfelf expiring
with the utter Extermination of that fo barbarous
and moft unchriftian Monarchy ; and which is in-
deed now in a very fair Way of being accomplith’d,
they having a moft infatiate Thirft after each other’s
Deftru@ion, attended with fad Devaftation and Fa-
mine, and the Times ftill growing worfe and worfe
upon their Hands ; and which may GOD continue,
till they are cither brought toa true Sight of their
Errors, or the utter Extirpation of themfelves and
Principles ; for as their Country is fo very rich, fpa-
clous
[ten }
{pacious and populous, it is much to be regretted that
it fhould go under any other Denomination than that
of a Part of a Chriftendom ; and whereto fhould all
Chriftian Princes but fet their helping Hand, Chrif-
tianity would not only flourifh and_ abound, but.
many poor ignorant Souls who are now (through
Means of their following falfe Lights) in a moft
dangerous and deplorable Condition, be in a little
'Fime brought by the Light of the Gofpel into a true
‘Knowledge and Belief in Curist, and to the utter
Abhorrence and Deteftation of Mahometifm ; which,
through the ambitious Artifices of cunning and de-
‘figning Men, hath for fo many Ages been fo grofly
impofed upon them. But whither am I wander-
ing? ‘Thefe Digreffions are quite out of my Way, as
wellas a Subject far beyond my Abilities, and alto-
gether out of my Way to meddle with ; therefore
I fhall again return to my old Road, travel gentlyon,
and. leave the Event of all thefe Things to GOD;
who, ‘no Doubt, hath in a great Meafure ordained
them for wife Purpofes.
» Now am [I again one in this large Army before
Old Fez ; where Muley Abdallah offered the Male-
contents free Pardon, in cafe they would furrender,
and promife future Obedience to him : To which
they anfwered, (being but too well acquainted with his”
deceitful Nature) Chat confidering their Refiftance was
for Liberty and Property, they thoucht it as good or
much better for them to die then, than at another
‘Time, therefore they utterly defpifed his Offer; which
they directly confirmed fromthe Mouths of their
Matkets: _And now is the bloody Scene opening « _
apace, nothing but Death and Horror reigning here
man : ecete
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for the {pace of feven Months, during which TI was
not backward/in acting my Part even in Place of
greateit Danger, infomuch that I was very willing
(in cafe I might efcape with my Life) to compound
for a {mart Wound or two ; and which, indeed, was
both my bad and good Hap, as you will by and by
hear.
Now is there fearce a Day without clofe Skir-
mifhing, and on both Sides great Slaughter ; and
notwithRanding our cruel Treatment of thofe we
took alive, as unmercifully cutting fome to Pieces,
and hanging others up alive by the Heels, till they
were dead thro’ Anguifh and Hunger, and others by
many other cruel Inventions of Tortures, and all
within Sight of the Garrifon, yet did they feem to
make no manner Account of it, unlefs growing
thereat more defperate ; and which, indeed, by
their future Behaviour and bold Attempts of Repri-
fals, they made foon to be very apparent, behaving
to the lat, with an undaunted Refolution, felling
their Blood with their Lives, to the very great Ex-
pence of that of our Army ; and had not their Pro-
viltons and Warlike Stores failed them, they had cer~
tainly done us far greater Mifchief, we having from
feveral Prifoners repeated Accounts, that as long as
their Stores lafted, “and People continued, they were
thoroughly refolved to hold it out ; and when theic
Provilion was exhaufted, their Horfes had eat up all
their Provender, and they at laft eat up their Horfes,
the Remnant were refolved to faily forth ‘together,
and fell their Lives at the Rate of thofe of the braveft
Soldiers, which they deemed much better, and by
far more honourable, than to drag a miferable Life,
“attended
{ soa J |
attended with grievous Servitude, and continually
expofed to the capricious Humour of a bloody ‘Ty-
rant ; and therefore they were refolved to deliver
their Country from his Tyranny, or perifh with it 5
and in which, indeed, they were in a great Meafure
as good as their ‘Wards, for they fought us to the
laft with a noble Refolution, and de(perately fallied
fo long as they had any Thing remaining, w whereby
to fupport their finking Spirits, their Horfes being at
Jaft all eat up, and the Remnant of themfelves fo
miferably weak thro’ Famine, that their, Lives were
{carce worth the taking, not having Serength e-
nough left them,,to make an, honourable -Pile for
Burial, which was what they fully intended,.and (like.
Sampfon) to have kil’d more at their Deaths than
they had before done during ail the, Time -of their
Lives ; but as their Strength could do no more, they
were at laft obliged to fubmit to the Mercy of a mer-
-cilefs Tyrant, marching out, or rather indeed crawl-
ing, (as being fearce able to. ftand) in. one Body
6036; the 36 were inffantly .on the Spot Beheaded,
and the remaining 6000 led. by theArmy in a mifera-
ble Condiuon to Mequinez, and. ever after expofed (fo
long as any of them remain’d) in. the Fronts of the
8 yraats bloody Battles, and mott of them were kill’d
in my Sight’: This was my third Battle at Fez, we
loft.40,000 Men ; and of 1500., Chriftians in_ this
Siege and the former, no more remain’d than 6605
myfelf, being likewife. wounded by two Mufket Shots
in my lefe Shoulder and flethy part of my Buttock 5
tho’ thefe Wounds did not keep me from my ray
more than five Weeks.
_ Now
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Now.am I, after this my fo very great F atigue
and narrow Efcape of my Life, fent again to Agoory,
where I could not again help thinking on my late
Wife and little Pratler, ruminating on the many
Hazards I had hitherto undergone, and the no lefs
miraculous Prefervations I had met with, fully in-
tending to purfue my Intentions of efcaping, and to
putmy Truft in Providence for Deliverance, as
=
yo
foon as my Wouuds were fomewhat hardened, my
Strength reftored, and a convenient: Opportunity
Should offer: But alas! I may as to that fet my
Heart at Quiet for fome very confiderable Time lon-
ger, [ having firft many more tedious and hazardous
Exploits to encounter with ; and firft I was by Afe-
dey Abdallah, even as 1 may fay before I had Tims
to look about me, very unexpectedly hurry’d away
on the following Expedition.—He having repeated
Accounts of a great Body of Malecontents (confifting
to the leaft of 100,000) gathered at Iehuzzan, in
the Province of Itemoor, and that they behaved after
a moft infolent Manner, he therefore dire@tly or»
dered 70,000 Horfe to be got ready to march with
him thither, to correct them, and of which Num-
ber myfeif and Men, asa Part, where forthwith or-
dered to Mequinez, where we direGly joined the ret
of the Army and march’d towards the Rebels; and the
fecond Day following we got to Iebuzzen, where we
foon found the grand Aflembly had divided them~- _
felves into feveral Parties, flying before us.as faft as
they could into the Heights of the Mountains,. fo as
we were at leaft two Months before we could light
on them to any Purpofe, and then (being driyen ta
many Hardfhips) they fent to the Emperor Twelve
of their Chiefs, and with them Sixteen. fine Horfce,
as a Prefent, with full Power to tell him, Taat of
R2
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in Cafe he would fend a finall Party of his People back
with them, they would fo order Matters, as that they
frould return again in little Time with their refpective
Dues : In order to which he fent with them the neat
Mormng Six Thoufand Men, who were treated by
them for fome Time ina feeming friendly Manner,
and a great many of them (in Conformity to this
‘Offer) accordingly brought inthe Tributes, tho’ the
aiid Part of them, as not at all liking fuch heavy
pofitions, joining in grand Confult, fent Thirty-
eightof their Chicfs to the Emperor, to tell him,
That they had not as then brought in their feveral Pay-
ments, accordirg to their Promtfe by their former
Mefjengers ; not but they fully ‘ntended ta do it, and
qere then ready to do fo, provided he would make an
Abatement : At which the Tyrant was fo enraged,
that he anfwer’d them in a moft furious Manner,
an Abatement, you Degs ! Pil foon make an Abate-
ment of you 5 looking at them very fiercely, and
beckoning to his own People, to hem them in, and
then (on giving a Sign) they had al} their Heads ina
‘Moment cut off, faving one only, who thro’ won-
derful Chance efcaped to carry this fo unexpeéted
Anfwer back to their Meffage; and which, for fome
Time, put the Remainder of them into a moft ter-
rible Confternation, as not thoroughly refolying for
a Day or two what Courfe to take ; tho’ it was at
laft unanimoufly agreed by them to furprize and cut
off the 6000 of our People, who lay encamp’d near.
them, and accordingly they fell dire&ly on them ,
and notwithftanding they made a gallant Refiftance,
yet did they kill of them 4000 on the Spot, the
other 2000 flying in great Confufion back to our
Army, with this fo unwelcome and unexpected
News,
Now
| [ tor 3
Now is the Tyrant moft highly enraged, info-
much that he directly ordered moft of us up the
Mountains on Foot, and to give no Quarter to. all”
we could light ony which was punctually obey’d,
tho’ we found at firft but very few of them, as only
here and there afimall Number tarrying behind the
Reft of their Brethren, under a Pretence of being
Shepherds or Herdfmen to look after their Cattle;
the main Body (of about 30,000) fying from
Mountain to Mountain before us, and fo continuing
for feven Days: On the eighth Day we got fo near
them, and to that Degree fo hem’d them in, that
we in a very little Time deftroy’d them, putting
them all to the Sword with very lictle Lofs on our
Side ; and then, after breathing fome fhort Time,
we maich’d-to the Caftle of dint, in the Province
of ftehacam, lying at the Foot ofavery high Moun-
tain, and wherein we had an Account that 50,000
more of the Rebels were intrenched ; and very early
the next Morning we were all ordered up on Foot,
to pay them-a Vifit, and fo furrounded them, that
we attack’d them in their Frenches Sword in Hand,
and in a fhort Time kill’d of them 30,000 more,
the Remainder in great Confufion flying before us
to the Mountain of Cecdeboazze Mlultorria, where
they were in fuch a Manner fhelter’d from our
Fury, that it would have been in us not enh a
mere Madnefs to follow them, but alfo very hazar-
dous, as well as all together in Vain ; therefore we-
march’d to the River Cufcafoe, about four Leagues
farther on between the Mountains, lying Batwcen
Ceedeboazzo and Mint, there intending to “fettle our
Camp for fome Time ; and which was indeed forth-
with marked out, and our Tents pitch’d there, but
on the eighth Day following our Camp was very ac-
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eidentally feton Fire, by a Coal of Fire fticking at
the Bottom of a Cake of Bread, juft taken out of a
hot Oven, which falling amongft the Fodder, (of
- which there was a prodigious Quantity, very long
and dry) the Fire quickly {pread itfelf to that degree,
that notwithitanding all our hafte in removing our
Tents, ec. yet were many of them, with feveral of
eur Horfes, and all our Stores burnt, the Fire fill
‘Tpreading towards the Emperor’s Pavilions, wherein
were Fifty of his Concubines, who were with great
Difficulty carried off by the Eunuchs, covered all
ever with Cloaks, and fhrieking after a difmal Man-
mer, before the Fire reach’d them,
Now are we, on Account of this fad Accident,
both as to our Provifion and Ammunition, ina very
great Straight, and there was very little Dependence
of having a frefh Supply from the Country, any fur=
ther than what we got by Foraging ; therefore we
were oblig’d to fend exprefly to A@eguinez for fuch
as we wanted, and which was full twenty Days be~
fore it came to our Hands; tho” during this, (after
the Fodder was all burnt up, the Fire extinguifh’d,
and all the Afhes cleared off, for fear of a fecond Ac-
cident of like Nature) we fettled the Remainder of
our Tents, which we had preferv’d from the Flames,
again in the fame Place,
Our Stores, &¢. being arrived, we rofe with
our Army, and march’d.out in four Days to the Caftle
of Caffaveh Amarifu, in the Parifh of ‘Fuzob, in the
‘Province of Zamnfnah, after the following Rout :
The &rft Day to the other Side of the River Melhad;
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the fecond to Merfaidore; the third to Zeebedah 3
and the 4th, by Three o’Clook in the Afternoony
within two Leagues of the Caftle, where we met with:
a great Party of the Malecontents; and tho’ they
were double ourNumber, we forthwith attack’d them,
and by Ten of the Clock that fame Night, cut mott
ef them off, when we marched on to the Caftle, and
fettled our Camp without the Walls, where we re-
mained for the Space of two Months, ravaging and
plundering the Country all round us of their Corns;
Fruit, Cattle, &c. after a moft fhocking Manner,
the Inhabitants (all but thofe of the Parifh of A/Ze-
duna) flying from us into the Height of the Mountains 5
as indeed, it would have been much better for them,
had thofe of Adeduna alfo done fo; for notwith-
ftanding their fo ready Compliance in fending into
the Pyrant four hundred Horfe all ga'tlantly mount-
ed with the Prime of their Youth, and almoft la-
-den with vaft Sums of Money for his Service, yet
did he initantly order them for Execution, and had
all their Heads cut off on the Spot: The Reft of the
Inhabitants in thofe Parts, on feeing this fad Difatter
of their Neighbours, compounded for their own
Lives, by bringing in vaft Sums of Money ; then
eur Army rofe, and march’d thence with much
Booty and feveral Prifoners to AZilce, about fix
‘Leagues, where we again pitched our Tents, and
fettled four Weeks, ftill making in the Country
grievous Havock : At length we rofe and march’d
thence, after the following Route for Mequinez ; the |
firft Day to Jnvelghummeefe; the fecond to Inemo-
eon 3 the third to the River Sharrot ; the fourth to
Wileehiab Benhammo ; the fifth to. the River Bate ;
and the lixth, in good Seafon to Adequinez, the Ty~
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f eco 4
rant ftill (as we paffed along) plundering oe Coun-
ty; and murdering his Subjects.
Now am [again returned to Meguinen where this
bloody Villain is for the Space of a Month, employ’d
in nothing but contriving Ways and Mestis: show: to
put his People to Death, fearce a Day paffing with-
out his exercifing his Cruelty more or lefs : But I
could not (very much to my Diffatisfaction) find any
likely Means to efcape, and therefore I found my-
felf of Neceflity oblig’d to follow his fo evil Genius,
till a more convenient Seafon, and to content my-
{elf under it fo well as I could, I being at the End
of five Weeks a fecond Time atdated with a good
Wumber of Troops for Ltemoor, and after following
the Malecontents into the Mountains for eight Weeks,
killing all we could light on, and plundering their
Cattle, &c. we again returned therewith to AZequi-
nex 3 and where I had not again , remained no: more
than three Weeks, but Iwas ordered forthwith with
the Carrivan to the Coaft of Guinea: This really
gave me fome Difquiet, as being (1 was very certain)
Work cut cut for me for at leaft two Years ; how-
ever, to thew any DiffatisfaQion I knew would not
be in the leaft availing, and therefore with feeming
Chearfulnefs fet out thence in Company with 12000
Camels, (our Numbers ftill encreafing on the Road)
and got the firft Night to the River Bate ; the fecond
to Dyefroome ; the third to Bolegrig and Grove, where
two Rivers meet ; the fourth to Amwoodermel ; the
fifth to Waddon Enkeefe; the Sixth to Adeetheor
Obeor, the hundred and one Wells; the feventh to
Broafb ; the eight to Emfbrah Dellia; the ninth to
Adenzet 3 and the tenth to Morocco, with our Car-
sivan
i wee
rivan very much increafed, and here we refted ten
Days ; the eleventh to Wadden Enfeefe ; the twelfth
to Zouyet Belboul ; the thirteenth to Aijbour ; the
fourteenth to Algorarfaffa ; the fifteenth to /tewad-
del ; the fixteenth to Sofeegofulee ; the feventeenth
to Afford ; the eighteenth to Agroot, a fmall fith-
ing Cove ; the nineteenth to Tammanert ; the twen=
tieth to the River Sowze, three Leagues to the South-
ward of Santa Cruix; the twenty-firt to Meffah ;
the twenty-fecond to Ageloce ; the twenty-third to
Ceedehammet Benmosfa, where one of their famous
Conjurers, formerly called after that Name, was bu-
tied ; the twenty-fourth to Ofran the twenty-fifth
to Wadnoon, and which is the laft that Way, where
the Inhabitants live in Houfes 5 the twenty-fixth to
Shebeccah, and the twenty-feventh to Segeeabamrabs
thence entering the Defarts, our Numbers now being
nana Men, and 60,000 Camels compleat each
soldier having the Charge over two ; and we were all
of us (faving a few that died on the Paffage) fafely
conducted by an old blind Laurd in five Months
‘Time over this Sandy Ocean, to the Caftle of Shinget.
This Caftle of Shinget belongs to a better Sort of
Laurbs, as they are generally termed; though I
think they are all of them a Pack of thievifh blood-
thirfty Villains, infomuch that whether of them or
the AZvors are the better, I fhall not take upon me
to determine; tho’ indeed, in the Original, I take
them to be all one and the fame People, yet is there
here aMoori/» Governor always refiding, and thePlun-
der and Tribute is there brought in during the Stay of
one Carrivan on the Guinea Coaft, till anocher Car-
tivan arrives, and then the old ones march off with.
their Booty, and leave the new Comers the Poflef-
fion: In and about ‘this Caftle was our general
eh Ren-
bh wee fj
Renddbrausy tho? we marched thrice tothe Wadnily
or River Nile; and all fuch as made any the leaft Re-
fiftance we brought under Subjection with theSword,
fo that they were either obliged to bring in the iy
rant’s exorbitant Demands, or to fuffer the’ fevere
plundering of the Army, ftripping the. poor Ne-
groes of all they had, killing many of them, and
bringing off their Ghildeetié into the bargain. At our
firft coming to the River, we found on ita French
Veflel of about eighty Tons, and manned by twelve
Sailors, whichthe Agoors fwam off to, boarded and
hawl’d tothe Shore. But before- I proceed any far-
ther, I fhall firft beg leave to go back, and tell yow
ofa moft extraordinary Thing tranfafted by our
old blind Pilot, in our Travel over the Deferts; into
which we being enter’d» about fifty Days, during
which we never failed of meeting every Day, or
every other Day at the furtheft, with fome very re-
frefhing Springs of Water, mahicisby we and ovr Cat-
tle were very much cherifhed: At one of thoft Springs
the old Man told us that we fhould not fail there to
fill fo many of our Skins as would hold Water fuffici-
ent for all of us forthree Days to the leaft, for that
we fhould not meet with any more of them during
that Time; which we did accordingly, and at the.
third Days end we got again to other Springs where
he told us that we fhould not neglect doing the fame,
for that we fhould not for a Fortnight meet with
Water oftener than every third Day ; ; and which,
indeed, we didnot ; however, we paffed over thofe
Stages srilrgast any great Matter of Murmuring, and
at the:laft of them he told us’ that. we fhould there
befure to fill all our Skins, and Jet our Cattle drink
their Fill, for that we fhould not meet with any more
Water for fome confiderable Time, and therefore
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we fhould be on our March as fparing’as poffible $
but the Weather being according to the Seafon of
the Year (it being in the beginning of Autumn) ex-
ceeding hot, about the fixth Day following, we be-
ing about to pour the Water out of our Skins, to our
very great Aftonifhment found them (or at leatt the
greateft Part of them) quite empty, the exceflive
Heat of the Sun having exhaled the Water through
the Pores of the Leather, infomuch, that we to that
Degree fuffered for four Days, that had not our old
Pilot chear’d us in a wonderful Manner, it muf¥
certainly have been attended with very ill Confequen-
ces, it caufing amongft us a general Murmuring 5
but he defired us to be as eafy as we could under our
fad Diftrefs, for that he was well fatisfied we fhould
again ina fhort ‘Time have Water enough, defiring
one of our People to take him up a handful. of
Sand and hold it to bis Nofe; and after he had
(nuffied upon it for fome fhort Time, he pleafingly
told us we fhould before two Days end reach other
Springs, and have Water enough, travelling on,
and encouraging us all in his Power; and in the
Morning of the fecond Day following he defired that
- another handful of the Sand of that Place might be
taken up and held to his Nofe 3 on which the Party
taking that which he had {melt of two Days before,
he having ftill preferv’d it ina Piece of old Linnen
Cloth) ftepp’d forth and held the fame for him to
fmell to again, and after he had {nuffied on it for a
much longer Time than at firft, he told him that ei-
ther the Army was again marching back, or that he
had moft grofly and bafely impofed on him, for that
was actually the fame or fome other of the Sand of
that Place he had fmelt of two Days before, and
therefore he thought him highly to blame, and that
| he
[ dog
he did very il thus to go about to deceive a dark old
Man’; however, it was not in his Power, notwith-
ftanding he had fo much likea Fool endeavoured it 5
therefore, {aid he, throw it away, and on your Ho-
nour take me up a handfull of the real Sand of this
Place; which, after juft putting his Nofe to it, he
faid ina moft pleafant Manner, Now, Sirs, this is
Jomething like, giving us all to underftand that we
fhould aboutFour o’Clock that Afternoon, haveWater
fuficient, which was indeed, at this Time as comfort- —
able News tome, as my trulty Genoefe Servitor’s Af-
furance of procuring me fome comfortable Cordials,
when I was Sick with my Wounds at Fez: About
Noon he defired a fref handful of Sand, which putting
his Nofe to, he faid, 4y, ay, this is as it foauld bey or-
dering us to keep a good-Look cut if we could fee
any wild Beafts, Oftriches, Eagles, &%c. and in fuch
Cafe to tell him of it, and before we had travelled
half a League further we faw feveral Eagles in the
Air, and foon after many wild Beafts and Oftriches,
flocking together on the Sand, and on our telling
him of it, he told ws to march dire€tly thither, and
there we fhould find feveral fhallow Wells of excel-
lent Water, covered over with the Skins of wild
- Beafts ; but, faid he, take care -you don’t difiurb it,
by preffing on too eagerly, but go gradually on, and you
will find fufficient for you all ; and I further promife
to bring you To-morrow Evening tea very large Pond,
where yourfelves and Cattle may all drink at once, and
where we may again fill our Skins, fo as no more to
want Water during the Remainder of our “fourney,
foy we foull afterwards meet with little or more every
Day: At \aft we got up to thefe fo very much longed
after Wells, which we found according to the old
Man’s Affertion, clofecover’d, but foon haul’d of
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the Skins ; and all of us, to our very great Satisfac-
tion, in Courfe drank our Fill, and then we felk to
fettling our Camp there for the Night, and there be-
ing for a good Space round, Store of Patture, our
Cattle were as well off as ourfelves ; by the next
Morning we were gallantly refrefhed ; when, after
covering the Wells, (having firft filled our Skins
with Water, fufficient for that Day) we with frefh
Courage travelled on, and got that Evening according
to Promife, to the fpacious Pond; and here being
alfo good Store of Provender, with vaft Numbers of
wild Beafts, Oftriches, &c. we refted two Days 3;
and through Means of our old Pilot we kill’d a great
many of them after the following Manner - On out
feeing thofe Creatures hankering after the Water,
and telling our Pilot of it, he ordered us to dig Holes
in feveral Places round the Pond, deep and large
enough to hide two or three Mufqueteers in each ;
then to draw off the Army, when he faid they would
come to drink, foas we might fhoot them at our
Pleafure : After which Method we in a litile Time |
kill’d a great many of them, committing all to Pot,
as Lyons, Antelopes, and Oftriches together ; tho’ I
think the latter by far too good to be thus mifufed,
as being alone moft excellent and delicious Eating,
and of all other Birds (if it may properly be {fc call’d)
in the way of ferving a great many People, by far
the moft preferable, as weighing, no Doubt, at the.
leaft two hundred Pounds Weight, and in a Man-
ner allone Lump of Fat, fo as one of them. de-
cently handled, will no Doubt fuffice two hundred
Men, |
—_
When the Native Laurbs are minded to kill an
—Oftrich, they generally go out ina Party, and ata
| ' Dittance
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Diftdnee furround him, drawing nearer by Degrees,
driving him from one to another till he is at lat fo
tired, as that he can feemingly do no more Harm;
which, as he cannot fly, may feem to thofe who
are therewith unacquainted, to be a very eafy Mat-
‘ter, yet'is it, laffure you, a-very difficult Point ; for
“when he is thus purfued, he runs fo fwiftly, as few
Horfes in Barbary can keep up with him 3 and when
he finds himfelf beginning to flacken his Pace, and
the Enemy to gain Ground upon him, he to that
Degree fpurs himfelf with his Spurs, (which he hath
growing under his Wings, prodigious long and
fharp) as'that he foon again recovers his Pace, his
“Wings being always extended, and though of no
Benefit to him by Way of flying off the Ground,
yet no Doubt of a very great Addition to his Buea
in running, he being at laft run down much in like
Nature of a’Hare ee rea Pack of Hounds, with
this Difference only, that being generally clofe isa
ing, this altogether in open View,
AND now to ret to the French Veffel ; which,
after taking out fome Elephants Teeth ard: Blacks,
(their Gold being all thrown over-board) was di-
reCtly burnt, carrying the Prifoners with us to Shin-
get, four of them dying in the Defert, on our Way
Homeward, andthe other eight we carried with us
to Mequinez.———During our Stay on the Guinea
Coaft, which was in all about twelve Months, we
got together a very great Booty, as Gold, Ivory,
Blacks, &c. though it did not fatisfy our ‘Ht uia
Mafter, as you will by and by hear. Our Time
‘being expired, and another Caravan arrived, we
packed up our Treafure, und fet out for Meguinex,
getting
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getting well to our old Pilot’s Pond, without any
“Thing happening worth my noting, where we again
gallantly refrefhed ourfelves during the Space of two
Days, regaling on our wild Dainties: And after
filling all our Skins, we fet forward, and got that
Evening to our fo late longed after Wells, where we
again took,up our Quarters, without impairing our
amain Stock. of Provifions, we having feveral Oftriches
and Antelopes, which we brought with us from the
Pond for our Supper 5 and the next Morning, at Day
-break, we were again on the March, myfelf and fix
more, in Purfuit of fome Antelopes, ftaying abouta |
Mile behind the reft of the Caravan; when all on
afudden we faw twenty of the wild Laurbs riding
on Camels towards us, they having, during the Ca-
Yavan’s pafitng by, bid themfelves behind fome large
fandy Banks, of which were here and there feveral
thrown up by the violent Winds, and again the next
Storm very likely removed to other Places : The
Laurbs being, between us and the Army, thought
no Doubt to have made of us fure Prize, fix of
them advanced within a hundred Yards of us, and
difcharged their Mufkets on us, one of their Shot
grazing along the Side of my Head, and another |
wounding a AZoor clofe by my Side; on which we
fired at once, and killed two of them, when we di-
rectly rode off to charge, and fired at them agains
-killing the other four, when again riding off, we faw
Jeveral of our People coming back to our Afiftance:
However, before they came up with us, we had fred
zwice round on the other fourteen, and killed moft
of thofe, and then we {aw many more of their Party
advancing ; though on their feeing thofe of our Peo-
ple come back, they turned from us and fled, -and
Jett. we might happen to lofe Sight of our Army, we
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purfued them no further, but hafted forward as faft
as we could. After this Skirmifh, we travelled
on unmoleited, taking moft fpecial Care of our
Water, fo as we might not be again reduced to fo
fad a Calamity, I riding as often as I could along-fide
of the old Laurd, afking him a great many Quef-
tions, and particularly concerning his fo wonderful
and furprizing Knowledge in {melling to the Sand ;
to which he, after a moft courteous Manner, an-
{wered me, that this was his thirtieth Journey over
this Ocean, therefore in going and coming his fixe
tieth Time; that in his laft four Journies, finding
shis Sight gradually declining, he had, by often ma-
‘king the Experiment, (as having a wonderful Fa-
culty in fmelling) attained to ‘this. fo wonderjul
Knowledge, he being, he faid, well fatisfied ‘that’ the
Lofs of his Sight was thereby in a very great Mea-
fure compenfated, infomuch that he would engage at
any Time to tell in what Part of the Defart- he was.*
One Day, as I was riding pretty near him, my Ca-
mel happened with one of his Feet to hit againtt
fomething which founded very hollow, which 7 tel-
Jing the old Man of, as wondering what it fhould be,
he told meit was a Mummy : 4 Adummy, faid 1,
3 pray
* This is an extraordinary Inffance of the bode
Sagacity of this old Laurb, and at the fame ‘Time
Strengthens the received Opinion, that when any one
@enfe is taken away, the others grow the fironger®:
dt is net improbable, becaufe Sailors make Uje of al-
moft toe fame Method. to find out how far they are
fromiany Shore, viz. by founding and obferving the
Nature and Colour of the Sotl, whieh the’ Piinitiet
brings up With tt.
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pray what is that ? It is (faid he) a Human Corp/%,
which hath for fome Time lain buried in the Sanity
till through the exceffive Heat thereof it is dried to@
Keckhs, and if our Surgeons knew it, they would not
fuffer it (if they thought it fit fer their Purpofe) to
lie any longer there: #it for their Purpofe, faid I,
What, is one of them better than another ? That ({aid
he) #5 according to the Time of their being buried, or of
their being more or lefs dried. lWell Fatber, {aid a a
I fhould be fo lucky to light on anather, I think I
Soould have Curiofity enough to take it it up ; And riding
again the next Day near the old Man, he bad me to
get off my Camel, for that his Camel bad with one
of his Feet ftruck againft a Mummy ; which, by his
Dire@&tions, I with the Point of my Sword foon
found, and with a Spade digged it up in a little
Time: It was as hard as a Stock-Fifh, had all its
Limbs and Flefh (though fhriveled) intire, all the
Teeth firm in the Gums ; and as to its being any
Way naufeous, a Man might without Offence have
¢
even carried it in his Bofom.
_ Aprer this, we travelled on without any Thing
elfe happening particular, till we fafely arrived at
Tedtah, where we found Muley Abdallah waiting our
coming, diverting the Time in plundering the Coun-
try, and murdering his Subjects: And after he had
ftritly examined into the Value of our Tyreafure, he
being not at all pleafed with it, (though no Doubt it
was to the Value of fome Millions of Englifh Pounds
Sterling) killed A@onfore, our Bafhaw, and feventeen
more of our Principals, with his own Hand, and the
‘next Day twenty-feven Chiets, who came thither to
him in all Humility from feveral Parts of the Coun-
try
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#ty with their Prefents, and, tomy moft unfpeakable
. Grief, my Deliverer from the bloody Knife at 4/a- .
aoor. When the Tyrant was glutted with Blood,
we marched with him at our Head to Meguinez;
whence, after the Caravan was feparated, and fent
Home to their refpective Habitations, I was again
at the End of fix Weeks hurried away on the follow-
ing Expedition : The Tyrant ‘having repeated
Advices of a vaft Number of credulous poor Souls
being (through the Means of on Enfeph or Fofcph
Flaunfel], a noted Conjurer) ftirred upto Rebellion
in and about Tedlah, he having before fhewn many of
his Magick Pranks, and had then fo far infinuated
“Into the giddy Multitude, as to make them believe
‘they fhould be invulnerable from Adaley Abddailah’s
‘Shot, and fuch-like Stuff, and they pinning their
‘Faith fo far on his Sleeve, that they were ga-
thered in a little Time to a Body of at leaf two
hundred thoufand Men, doing even as he com-
manded them, committing many Infolencies, and
with a high Hand (like a great Torrent) bearing all
down before them: All which, I fay, coming to the
Emperor’s Ears, I am, in Company with eighty
“thoufand Regular ‘Troops, and Salem Ducullee at
our Head, ordered directly to march againft them;
and notwithftanding the vaft Number the Conjurer
had with him, and thofe fpirited up by his pretended
Conjurations, yet could he not hinder them from
flying into the Heights of the Mountains before us :
However, we followed them fo clofe, that we by
the Sword and Mufket killed vaft Numbers in a very
jittle Time 5 and after we had at laft conjured the
Conjurer into our Cuftody, we marched with him
to Tedlah, where the Emperor then was, and gladly
yeceived him at our Hands, ‘Ae him, that he was
very
f ott. 4
very glad to fee. him there, and that as he had hi-
therto heard fo very much of his famous Conjura-
tions, if he could tell him what Death he had within.
himfelf determined for him, he would, notwith-
ftanding all. his paft Villainies, pardon him; to
which the Conjurer making no Anfwer, he told him
that he thought his Conjuration to be then at am
End, and that himfelf was become the better Conju-
rerof thetwo, for that he was very fure his Handg
and Feet fhould be cut off to the Arm-Wrifts and,
Ancles ; which was immediately done, and his Body
thrown on a Dunghill naked, guarded by fifty Sol-
diers till dead, and afterwards left till it was caten up
by the Dogs. ?
Tus Enfeph Haunfell was actually in his Days
not only a noted Magician, but had therein per-
formed many ftrange and very unaccountable Things: -
in Favour of Aduley Hamet Deby, as railing to all
_Human Appearance vaft Numbers of armed Men,
and in the Emperor’s Palace at AMeguinex making
moft furprizing Doings, the Doors in and through-
out it, when they were to all People’s Seeming clofe
fhut and firmly bolted, flying open ona fudden of
themfelves, and on the Top of the Palace Walls.
_many armed Men appearing on Horfeback, fome-
times in grand Order, riding in Ranks, and fome-
times in great Confufion, ralljing and charging one:
another Sword in Hand This did I myfelf fee,.
as wellas many thoufand others ; though indeed I
could not at that Time have any further Opinion of
it than that it wasa Trick or Delufion, yet [mutt
confefs that I had afterwards (when I was about to,
make my Efcape for good) fome Reafon to beleva.
oe i S 2 there
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there was fomewhat more than i imaginary, as fhall
in its proper Place be fet forth.
Turis Way of putting the Conjurer to Death,
was premeditated by the Tyrant, though I had never
before feen any of his Subjects difpatched by his Or-
der that Way ; not but it was (when they were up
in Arms one againft another in their Civil Wars)
cruelly pradtifed, and of which indeed I had one
Night a very melancholy Inftance : I being out in
Purfuit of fome of thofe Rebels, and fraying a little
from my Party, in paffing by an old ruined Houfe I
heard a moft difmal Groan, and which I very at-
tentively liftening to, I foon heard to be repeated in
different Accents ; when ftopping at the Entrance,
I was foon given to underftand that there were four
Brothers (ftout young Men) lying on the Floor,
having all of them their Hands and Feet cut off,
through the Cruelty of their Enemies of a neigh-
bouring Town, humbly imploring me to go to their
Father’s Houfe, and acquaint him with it; and after
they had given me Directions, I went, found the
Houfe, and was ina little Time back again with their
Father and Mother, and with them fufficient Help
and Light ; and at our Entrance we found two of
them dead, and the other two almoft ready to ex-
pire : However, they had Time enough to tell them
by whom they were thus ufed ; fo that [ was, to my
very great Satisfaction, freed from all Sufpicion of
having any Hand init ; of which, had they all died
in my Abfence, I might very reafonably have lain
under avery greet one, and have been very inno-
cently punithed. And now are they all at Wark
in removing the two furviving unhappy Wretches ;
who,
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who, on their being moved, died alfo, and then I was
courteoufly intreated by their Father to go to his
Houfe ; which, as thinking myfelf to be altogether
unfafe till I had again joined my own Party, “I did
not think fit to do; apeeelfose I went directly in
Quett of them.
‘Now am T, after conjuring the Conjurer, again
breathing for fome fhort Time in AMequinez, and
where is foon about to be acted by the Tyrant the
moit bloody Tragedy you ever before heard of ; and
though I was, during the ‘Time of the Tranfaction
of the firft Part of this Story, with the Caravan on
the Coat of Guinea, yet (as I had it from fo many
undoubted Reports) J fhall here venture to fet it
~ down for Fact, and therefore I will tell it you from
the Begitiningy together with all its Circumftances.
The Tyrant having amongft his Soldiery a particu-
lar Troop of brave Men, to the Number of about
eight hundred, commanded by one Mufa Ferrorry,
(one Bi Bendoobafb being ‘his Lieutenant) who had
of along Time behaved after the braveft Manner,
and (like the Veteran ‘faniffaries in the Armies of
the Grand Yuré) bearing down all before them ;
but talking a little too freely and openly touching
the Tyrant’s moft unwarrantable bloody A &ions
amoneft his Subjects, which coming to his Ears,
he was thereat fo difturbed, that he was thoroughly
refolved to get rid of them, could he tell how ; and
which, indeed, (as ftanding in very great Fear of
them) he could not for fome Time contrive how to
bring about ; however, his old Friend the Devil
foon put it into his Head, ordering them in a friendly
— to repair forthwith to the River Draugh, -
there
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there to receive and bring to him to A@eguinez their
refpective Tributes, though he at the fame Time
very well knew there was none due to him from
them, they being (on Account of their furnifhing
him with a certain Number of Horfemen for his
Wars) exempted from all other Impofitions whatfo-
ever ; and he knew (fhould they be any further
prefled) they would no Doubt foon fall on this {mall
Number, and. cut them to Pieces: However, left
they might not.do it fo foon as he expected, he took
fpecial Care to preadvife them how they fhould be-
have tothem, wz. (for certain Reafons of State, as
then to’ himfelf only known) to put them all-to the
Sword; for fhould he at that Time go about to do
Juttice upon them at Home, it might-chance (as his
Affairs then ftood ) to prove to him of very ill Con-
fequence ; therefore, as he was in Danger of his
Life through their Means, he humbly hoped they.
would rid him of them as foon as they found a fie
Opportunity. And now are thefe daring Lyons
(like innocent Sheep) hurrying on to their Slaughter
apace, their Number being now reduced to fix hun-
dred, the reft.of them being flain in feveral former
Battles ; though on their Arrival, and for feveral:
Months after, they were treated after a feeming.
friendly Manner, giving. them every Day fair Pro-
mifes, {till drilling them on to meet with (if they
could on their Side) a carelefs Opportunity whereby
they might, with the lefs Danger to themfelves,. per-
form their fo bloody Order ; but Ferrory kept his
fmall Number in fo good Order, that they could not
even at the laft find an Opportunity to their Minds,
‘Furs Vigilance of» thefe few Troops not a little
difturbing them, they now order (for the better
Exe
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Execution of the bloody Tragedy) great Numbers of
armed Men to be with the greateft Privacy raifed in
feveral Places, and in the Night-time thofe feveral
Troops to march and join ata certain Place in one
Body ; and which, though they were inall thirty
thoufand Men, was managed with fo much Secrecy,
that had not Yerrory kept a good look out, they
had no Doubt fo furrounded him, as to have per-
formed their Orders to a Tittle 3; but he having fome
{mall ‘Time to rally his little Army, put himfelf into
as good a Pofture as he could to receive them after
the moit advantageous Manner, his ‘Troops behaving
like gallant Soldiets, and in a very fhort Time killing
thoufands of the Enemy : Butalas ! poor Men, what
could they do againft fo much Odds? Fo conquer was
even impoffible, and ta fave their Lives by Flight
very hazardous and uncertain ; however, either that
Was to be attempted, or Death mutt inevitably at-
tend them; therefore, after he had of his fix hun-
dred loft almoft two thirds, he turned his Horfe and
ery’d aloud, Follow me! cutting himfelf a Pafflace
through the Enemy, and with two hundred and two,
befides himfelf and his Lieutenant, in {pite of all.
they could do, got off to Mequinez 3 which, indeed,.
Was no more than too truly an Efeape out of the
Frying Pan into the Fire, or the Sheep running to.
the old Wolves, to teil them that they would net
fuller their young ones to worry them ; though had:
they known the, [hreads of their Lives to be fo near
being eut by the aecurfed Treachery of a bloody
Tyrant, they had, no Doubt, fold their Lives at a:
much dearer Rate. Immediately on their Arrival
into the City, even before they could: of themfelves
have the Power to appear before the ‘Fyrant, the two
Commanders were oidered before him, he demand-
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-ing of them, inan angry Tone, if they had brought
him what he had fent them for: They told him, No3
Jor that the Draughians, after receiving them in feem-
ing Friendfbip, and for along Time putting them off,
and drilling them on with fair Promifes, had bafely
and treacheroufly fallen upon them with thirty thou-
fand Men, and that they only, with about two hun-
dred more, were miraculoufly efcaped to tell him the
moft unhappy News. News (faid he) you Dogs, of
what 2 Why, Sir, (aid Ferrory) that they fell upon
us all at once with thirty thoufand Aden : Very well,
faid he, and 1 don’t in the leaft doubt but that you, like
daftardly Cowards, ran away without fighting, to the
utier Difgrace of me, only for the Suke of living a
little longer, and coming home ta die by the Sword of
Fufitce 3 and which, (aid he, (fwearing by the Life
of Mahomet) you jhall do this fame Hour : They
told him, That they hoped he would firft enquire bet-
ter into the Merits of their Adtions ; telling him,
Lhat they had firft killed. their Thoufands : Your
Lhoufands, faid he, you Dogs, Pray why had not you
food it to the laft, and killed your Ten Thoufands ?
When drawing his Sword, Bendooba/h cried out for
Mercy ; at which ‘Ferrorry told him, That after fo
many brave Aétions he had feen him to perform, be
thought it beneath him and a Difgrace, to beg his Life
of fuch a damnable Villain; for that he then, though
too late, faw the Traitor, who (ne faid) had as good
take his Life then, as at another Time; for that be
would, no Doubt, at laff murder ail his loyal Subjects,
unlefs he was by the true Sword of “fustice prevented,
and therefore he feorned to beg his Life on any Terms
of Juch a Blood-thirfty damnable Villain: On which
the Tyrant at one Blow ftruck off his Head, and |
that of Bendeoba/b at another 3 when he afk’d for the
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Remainder of their Men, and being told they were .
all on Horfeback without the Gate, Waiting their
Commanders Orders where to fet up, after giving
his Guards fecret InftruGtions, he with a good Body
of them went dire@ly out to them ; and after telling»
them, after his deceitful Manner, that he was glad
to fee them come Home fafe again, that they had had
of it a very troublefome Time, that their Horfes
looked very thin, and the like, he ordered them to
alight, in order to their being fent to his Stables ;
when they anfwered him, That they would, if he
pleafed, ride them thither themfelves : No, no, poor
flearts, faid he, get off, that I may fee how you can
Jiand on your own Legs ; at the fame Time ordering
‘them to deliver their Arms, and draw up into one
“Rank ; which they infantly obeying, and he riding
forward and backward, as if the better to view
them, they were all on a fudden, and ina Moment,
fhot by his Guards, faving one only, who (feeing
‘through the ‘Tyrant’s Intentions, at his ordering
them to alight) rode off to one of their Churches,
‘The Tyrant, left the ViGtims might not be dead
enough, ordered his Guards to prepare ‘to give
them a fecond Round; which, before they could
make ready, (the Tyrant flanding pretty near the
fallen ViGims) one of them being till in a Capa-
city of riling, and having about him a long Knife,
got fo near him, that had net a Lad ftanding by very
unluckily perceived it, he had no Doubt therewitiz
given him his jaft Reward, by ending his Days: They
‘were then again all fhot at, and all their Heads being
cut off, the Bodies laid-on their Backs, and the Head __
of each Man laid on his Breatt, they were for ten
Days (as none daring to carry them off) expofed in
the open Street to publick View, and at lait ftunk to
f - that
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that Degree, that none could: endure to come near
them ; but the Smell even reaching the Tyrant’s
“Apartehents, they wereall at laft (faving what the
Dogs had eaten) carried by his Order into the Fields,
and buried ; and fo ended this fo horrid and _barba-
gous Murder, which I was a Witnefs of; tho’ the
firft Part, as I faid before, (I being then on the Coaft
of Guinea) is only Hearfay, which even as then found-
ed but harfhly to his Credit, and was foon after by
the Black Army in general (moft of the late Victims
being their Countrymen) in a great Meafure revenged, »
by driving him out.
© IMMEDIATELY after the Perpetration of this fo
horrid and premeditated Murder, I was with my
Comrades fent to the Caftle of Booffacran,. diftant
from Aéequinez about four Leagues ; where I had,
as tomy own par culot Part, little elfe to do than te-
hunt, fifh and fowl for myfelf and Comrades, having
free Toleration from the Emperor, making amongit :
usa very good Hand of it, feveral of us chiefly im-
ploying our Time thet Way, and killing great Plen- —
ty of Game, to our general Satisfaction, though not.
»4o be fuppofed in any wife equal to that of the Empe-
ror, we going out, I fay, buta few of us together,
without any Dogs, and him with a great many, and
feveral Hawks, as having at the leaft (though never a
Hunter) a hundred Greyhounds, or Long-Dogs, and
on Horfeback and on Foot as maay Moors and Ne-
groes (by Way of Starters) with their long Poles in
their Hands, fpreading a-breaft, ftill I beating the Cover
as they went on; fo that the eae fheltering therein,
were cither ‘on Foot, or on Wing, it. being anak |
impoflible for any (faving very young-Birds or Le-
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Leverets lying very clofe, to. efcape them, having .
very oftenon Foot together four or five Hares, and
on Wing twice as many Partridges, and Dogs and.
Hawks ail at one and the fame Time at Work ; and
with the very great Speed and Force the Dogs ran,
they (being divided into .as many Parties as were
Hares on Foot, and often meeting on the Turn)
firuck againft one another to that Degree, that they
at the beft became ufclefs, and many ‘Times fell guite
dead on the Spot : And after the Emperor’s {pending
the Forenoon in thofe Exercifes, and his Stomach
putting him in Mind of his Dinner, he generally
rode off toa Pleafure-Houfe he had about a Mile or
two off (according to the Part of the Country he was
then in) to bis Dinner ; though when. the Maggot
bit him, he had it brought him into the Field.
{
NEAR the Walls of our Caftle rana very fine Ri-
ver, and plentifully ftocked with many Sorts of very
excellent Fifh ; and asI for two Reafons very much
admired fifhing, as firft for the ‘Amufement, and
‘Next the gratifying myfelf and Comrades with the
Fruits, feldoma Day pafled without my taking little
or more.
One Day, as I and one of my Comrades (a
Frenchman) were fifhing, he with a Cafting Net, and
myfelf with a Rod, and had between us both taken »
a large Bafket full, the Emperor, with one of his
Brothers, (before we faw them) were on our Backs,
and inftead of giving us any Difcontent, he ina
feeming pleafing Way afked if we had taken any
Fifth; Ltoldhim, Ys, thewing him to the Bafker 3
and ~
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and after he had looked at them for fome Time, he
told us, that he had not to his Mind of a long Time
feen finer, ordering us to carry them direCly to his
Pleafure-Houfe ; and which, it being from the Place
we were then at no more than a Mile, we did ina
very little Time ; and juft as we were entering, the
Emperor and his Brother alighted at the Gate, and
very unexp:ctedly gave us twenty Gold Ducats,
which chearfully carried us back again to the River,
and we again fill’d our Bafket, and went Home to
our Caftle as rich as Emperors.
Azour this Time the Emperor having two ot
three Exprefles on the Back of one another from
Trewoofey, about four Days Journey from AM¢equinez,
jntimating, That a great Body of Malecontents were
there gathered, behaving after a moft infolent Man-
ner, and that they were ftill increafing their Num-
bers, he ordered all the Light Horfe he could pick up
to bein Readinefs to go with him in Perfon to cor-
rect them, andin three Days and one Night we got
to the Foot of the Mountain wherein they had fhel-
tered themfelves, (ourfelves and Horfes fufficiently
oe) before the Rebels were apprized of cur Com-
ing; however, after fome fhort Refrefhment, we
Bb on Foot up to their Nefts, though a the.
Birds we found but few, maft of them, on i ctiee of
our coming up the Mountain, being flown; how-
ever, we aes found fome, and (ome of Loni we
took by Purfuit ; but their Ways being in a Manner
paft finding out to thofe therewith unacquainted, it
would have been altogether as dangerous as in vain
for us to follow them any further ; ; therefore, after
two Days Purfuit, we again returned to their Nefis,
ftripped
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ftripped them of all their Furniture and Provifion ;
then fet them on Fire, and taking with us all their
Cattle returned again down to our Horfes ; where,
aiter two Days Refrefhment, and difpofing of the
Cattle, &c. for what we could get, we in four Days
followed the Emperor to MMegquinez 3 to which he
(being mounted on the fineft Mare I ever faw) rode
without any Attendant in the Space of twelve Hours,
being 140 Miles from the Place where we then were.
This Mare was about fifteen Hands in Height, and
fhe was all over (except her Eyes, which were ofa
fiery red, and Eye-Lids, which were red Hairs pink’d)
-as white as Snow ; and notwithftanding the Empe-
Yor knew himfelf to be as hated by his Subjects as a~
Serpent, yetdid he put fo much Confidence in this
Mare, as not to fear when he was on her Back for
any to come after him, for he often rode by himfelf in
this Manner. .
Now am I, after this fhort Tour, again at Booffa-
eran, and every Day employed in fhooting, fifhing,
or hunting, either for the Emperor or ourfelves ;
‘and as he had alloted us round the Caftle fufficient
‘Quantities of Land, with Oxen, Hufbandry Tmple-
ments, and feed Corn, many of cur Company fet
themfelves at Work, plow’d the Ground, till’d it,
and had plentiful Crops ; though as to my own Part,
I being never in that Way inftruéted, and having
others to work for me, I never troubled my Head
about it, but ated by general Confent asa Pur-
veyor, during the Time of Tillage, Weeding, or
Harveft 5 and at all Intervals from our Farming Af-
fairs, excepting thofe of mounting the Guard, we
were generally all Hands on the Game: And this
was, I think, except my Intervals at Yamnfnah, the
: % 5 3 moft
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moft agreeable of all the Time of my living in Bar-
dary ; though during this, fcarce a Day paffed with-
out ferioufly reflecting with mylelf on Efcape, which
I then found to be very hazardous ; therefore, as |
found the Ruin of the Country every Day more
apparently approaching, and plainly forefaw that it’
could not be long e’er the Tyrant was driven out,
and then all would be in the utmoft Confufion, I for |
the Time lived as contentedly as I could, and with
Chriftian Patience waited the Event,
Azout this Time was the Truce again broken
” between the Engli~o and the Moors on the following
Oceafion : The A4oors having, as they thought,
Frongly provided themfelves with Shipping, fent to
Sea the following four, wiz. Anjour, their Admiral,
- Carrying twenty- -four Guns ; Caflam Benifba, anew
‘Ship, never before at Sea, carrying twenty ditto,
tlle Ouad, of twenty ditto, and dbjolem Candeel, of
fixteen ditto ; and Candeel falling in with Captain
Selley, of Plymouth, then Commander of an Englifp
Ship, though freighted by the Portugueze, he ha-
ving on board feventy Portugueze Paflengers, and
amoneft them fix Fryars, made Prize of him, arid
cartied him into Adarmora: Of whieh Complaint
being made to the Briti/s Conful then at Sallee, he
immediately thereon made Application to Candee!, to
fet them again at Liberty ; and which, finding he
could not do according to his Hope there, they be-
ing fent all Prifoners to Mdequinez, he ‘was thither
refolved to follow them, in order to make his Com-
plaint to the Emperor ; and thither indeed he went,
taking with him one Solomon Namias, a few, as his
Interpreter, and was foon introduced to the —
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afk’d him, what he would have : To which he an-
fwered by the Few, That he was come to acquaint bis
Excellency with the Breach of the Truce which had fo
lately been punétually concluded on both Sides between
his Subjeéts and them of his Royal Mafler ; who, he
faid, intended nothing lefs than giving him or any of
them the leaft Uneafinefs, by Way of any Hofitlities, as
Candcel had very lately done on him and hits there:
fore he humbly hoped that his Highne{s would be pleas’d
to order the, Ship and Prifoners ta be again refloreds
To which the Tyrant told him, Zhat-the Prifoners
were Subjects ta the King of Portugal, his bister Enemy,
and not to the King of Great-Britain, bis Mafter, and
therefore lawful Prize ; when ‘the Few told him,
That he thought it very hard that the Englith foould
‘not be allowed to carry ia their own Sivips, Paffengers of
any Nation in Peace with them 5 however, be humbly
hoped, that if be was nat then difpsfed to fet the Por
tugueze at Liberty, he would at leaft fet at Liberty
all the Englith and their Ship: But Candecl being
prefent, he afked the Tyrant, if he knew with
whom he had been fo long talking: Talting with,
faid he, with an Englifhman: No, Sir, ({aid Can-
deel) but with a Jew : Indeed | faid he, with a Jew!
and calling aloud to his Guards, Here (faid’ he) take
away Mr, Jew, and burn him direétly ; and then the :
Soldiers laying hold on him, he cry’d out to the Em-
peror to fave his Life, and he would give him two
hundred Cantles of Silver; nay, that he would give
it, only to be admitted to fpeak a few Words: Na,
thou Dag, faid the Tyrant, all the Silver ia. Barbary
foall not excufe thee; therefore, I fay, take him away
and burn bim 5 which they inftantly did, laying him
flat on his Belly, heaping in a moft cruel Manner the
Wood upon him alive, and in a little Time he with
: T erievous
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grievous Shrieksy and no Doubt in very great: Ago-
nies, expired : His Houfe was afterwards ranfack’d
of an immenfe, Sum of Money, and other Riches:
On which the Conful (feeing no Likelihood of bet-
ter Succefs) departed, as 1 was informed, for Eug-
land ; however, I know he was back again ina little
‘Time, and met with better Succefs, as you fhall by
and by hear. es |
Nor long after Shelley’s Captivity, the piratical
Villains being all Hands at Sea in taking and making
Prize of all Ghriffian Nations, there were brought
to Mfequinez the Men which belonged to four other
kenglife Ships; and I having Information of their
¢oming, and Liberty when I pleafed to go tothe
City, [fet out from my Caftle very early in the
Morning, to fee if any of them belonged to or near
#Falmeuth 5 anda tittle before Sun-rifing, I within a
League of the City’met with a great many of the
foremolt of them: Enquiring of them what Parts of
Sngland they were of, andif any one of them be-
longed to or near the above-faid Place, they told me
Yes, there was one coming up, named George Davies,
of Fluthing, a {mall Sea- Port Town within that Har-
bour s; and with whom I foon joined, afking him if
he knew me ; he told me No ; [Phy (faid 1) you and
L were once School Fellows together at the Church-
Town of Milor: Indeed! faid he, Z cannot imagine
who you fpould be, unle/s you are Thomas Pellow,-who
LT have of along Time heard was in his Childhood
carried with his Uncle inte Barbary : Indeed (faid 1)
fam that unhappy Perfon, telling him 1 was very
glad to fee him again, though very forry it fhould be
in that Part of the World, under fuch unhappy
Circumfiances >
Ci aes 3
Circumitances : He told me, it was his hard Fate,
‘bat he mutt endeavour, as well as I had done before
_ him, to bear it with Patience ; and after they were
allentered the City, and according to Cuftom car-
ried before the Emperor, and fent to the Canute,
I went to him, and cheer’d him up in the beft Man-
ner I could, and afterwards vifited him as often as
Opportunity would permit, he being with the reft
of his Comrades put to hard Labour, and fo kept for
the Space of three or four Months ; when the Con-
ful returned from Avglend again with the Character
ef Ambaflador, and full Power. to treat. with the
Tyrant for the Redemption of al] the Exgii/> Slaves;
which, notwithftanding his fo late ill Succefs, and
no BDaabe no little Fright at the barbarous eee of
the ‘Few, he managed fo well, that he procured their
Freedom ina very little Time, being in all 148 in
Number; and they were by him, and old: Mammet
Benelly, conducted to Teiuan, there to be kept. till
better Security fhould be given for their Ranfoms,
though they were at laft, on the Ambaflador’s offer-
ing himfelf to remain there for them as an. Hoftage
till it arrived, all by.the Bafhaw’s Confent : fhipped
off ; and happy indeed was it for them, for they had
but a fhort Time departed, before the Tyrant was
driven out by the Black Army, and Muley. Aly fet
upin his Room, and a peremptory Order fent by
him to Terven, to fend them all back. again to -Aée-
Quinezs -Chefereleafed Slaves, on their marching
of from Afeguinez, had Leave (for the better Per-
formance of their March to Tetuan) to tefreth them-
felves ior eight Days at Cafavah-harian ; where, at
their Requeft, I undertook to carry them fome
Brandy, and got thither for the frit Time in Safety
with feveral Gallons i in Bullocks Biadders 3 and they.
defiring
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defiring me to come again the next Day with fome
more, I told them it was a very dangerous Under-
taking ; however, to oblige them, 1 would try what
I could do, and had accordingly got my Bladders
again filled, and tied up round my Wafte within my
Blanket : But alas! in going without the City, I
was very unhappily furprized by fome of the Em-
peror’s People ; who, on their finding the Bladdcrs
about me, laid hold on me, and committed me to
elofé Prifon in Trons ; though not altogether, I be-
lieve, fo much on Account of the Brandy, as of a
Jealoufy they had (as I was fo great with my Coun-
trymen) of my endeavouring an Efcape with them ;
fo that in all Likelihood (unlefs they were by fome
Jews going to Hartan, who knew how it was with
me, informed to the contrary) my Countrymen,. no
Doubt, thought that I did not ufe them kindly ;
but whether it was one or the other, I know that I
{uffered by it very feverely, infomuch, that had not -
Muley Abdallah, through his fo frequent ill Ulage of
his Subjeéts, been every Moment in Danger and
Fear of being driven out, I fhould in all Likelihood
have there taken up my Quarters for a much longer
Time ; but I was, at the End of twelve Days, again |
fet at Libetty.
Now might you hear, even in all Places, the
Blacks threatening ; 4 new Maffer, a new Mafters
or none, being the general Cry ; which, andon |
certain Advices of a great Body of them gathered at
Shoarumlah, about two Days March from Aequinez,
and that they were foon about to pay hima Vifit,
put him into fuch a Fright, that he (by Way of Su-
gar Plumb) fent them 220,000 Ducats of oe
and
oe
and whilft they were difputing about. their refpeftive
‘Dividends, he pack’d up all the reft of his Treafure,
and fled with twelve thoufand Horfe ; but he was
in a fhort Time to that Degree forfaken by them,
that before he reached Morocco, he had not more
than five hundred of them remaining 3 yet, notwith-
ftanding their daily falling off from him, he ftill took
fpecial Care to deftroy all the Stores of Corn as he
went on, fo as the Blacés might not be the better for
it ; and which, as they followed him; they too footr
found, to their very great DifatisfaGtion ; however,
they ftill harried on the-Purfuit, till they came up
within two Days March of him ; of which being
acquainted by his Spies, (after being at AZorocco ten
Day) he with his fmall Number hurried thence four
Days long Journey by a round-about Way towards
Sallee, and fettled at a Place called Bolowan, where
he hadalfo vai Stores of Grain laid up 3 all which
he freely gave to the Inhabitants, with Liberty to
carry of at their Difcretion any where but to the
Enemy. And here, as I could not yet venture on —
Efcape, and foreféeing the Scale would foon again
turn to his Side, notwithftanding his cruel and bloody
“Nature, I, only by myfelf, joined him ; and which
proved, indeed, according to my own Sentiments,
of two Evils to be choofing the beft. )
Tue fecond Day after my joining him, on No-
tice from his Spies that the Black Army were again
within'two Days March of him, he with his fall
Number (which was then reduced to four hundred
Horfe, excluding his. Beafts of Carriage) moved
thence three Days fmart Jotrney to Shiboah ;
where, on certain Notice of the Blacks not following
him % .
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him, we fettled fixteen Days, and at the Endiof
which, on hearing they were again within two Days
March of us, he moved alfo thence, and in ‘three
Days and one Night’s tedious Journey we got to the
Mountain of Lmintanoot ; and there falling all that
Night a very heavy Snow, we were by the Morn-
ing almoft dead with the Cold ; however, we were
foon after Day-break, by Way of warming our Blood,
attacked by a great Body of Mountaineers, who killed
feveral of our fmall. Number, and of the Mules la-
den with Muley Abdullzh’s Treafure, they took and
Catried off at Jeaft forty : All which, notwithfand- .
ing our few could have beat them, did we (as fearing
a far greater Danger to be at our Heels) think our-
felves obliged to fuffer, and to hurry on till we
thought ourfelves to be better fecured from their
Rage ; and that Evening we got to Immintackeamof,y.
between two huge Mountains, ourfelves and Cattle
almoft fpent, where we refted till Midnight, and af-
terwards travelled on between the Mountains till
Day-break, and till Four o’Clock that Afternoon ;.
at which Time we got to Umceet Eleafhib, at the Foot
of another very high Monntain, called Bedown, fett-
ing there that Night, and the next Day over this
high Mountain to Terrident, where. he was moft
kindly received by the Inhabitants, and direCtly by
them put in Poffeffion of a itrong Caftle ; where the
Black Army, as thinking their Families at Home to:
be greatly expofed in their Abfence amidft fuch-di- —
Pecng Commiotions, did not think proper to follow
im.
Now is the Tyrant again breathing in Security,
remaining here about eighteen Months, though -not
altogether
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altogether in Peace ; for notwith ftanding all the
neighbouring DiftriGts (faving that only of fowerrah)
on his Summons came in to his Affiftance ; yet they
being a Pack of dating Thieves, living all together
on the Spoil of their Neighbours, would noton any
Terms obey him, but plainly told his Meflengers,
That whereas they had fo long depended on their own
Strength, they were then fo refolved to continue, and
not to fubmit themfelves to him, or any Bedy elfe, be the
Confequence what it would, and that they cared not for
bim a Rufh. :
Now isthe Tyrant, notwithftanding his haughty
and cruel Nature, at aStand how to behave, fuch
Affronts being never before put upon him : How-
ever, as his Affairs now ftood, he thought himfelf
obliged to temporize and win them to his Party, if
ke could, they being about fix thoufand daring Fel-
lows ; and his own Army being fo very fmall, he
knew if he could by fair Perfuafions get them over to
him, it would be -(as his defperate Fortune then
ftood) of very great Advantage to him; and there-
fore he fent to them again, though he was an{wered
to the fame Purpofe, gaining nothing but a more
faucy Confirmation of their Infolence ; which nettled
him to that Degree, that he was refolved to . watch
all Opportunities to be up with them ; he being alfo
fallicited by the honeft Party (to whom thefe Thieves
had of a long Time. been a prievous Nuifance) to
correct them, he went out again them with two
thoufand Horfe, and four thonfand Foot, marching
dizedtly to Uineederrah, a litile walled Town, where
many of their Chiefs refided, and where there was
then about fix hundred of them; who “fhutting the
Gates
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Gates againft us, in an infolent Manner bid us De-
fiance. The main Body of them was then Abroad
onthe Plunder: And now, on my fecing many of
our People to have raifed themfelyes on the Top of
the Wall, and not being willing to be behind any of
them, I wasfoon wounded by two Mufket Shots in
my Left Shoulder, and the Small of my Left Leg,
and by fome of my Comrades holpen off the Wall,
many ethers of them foon fharing the fame Fate,
and were with me carried off to our Camp; where
‘we were by far in the better Situation, for as they
Were carrying us thither, we faw the main Body of
the Rebels coming back to the Relief of their
Town and-Comrades ; - and our- main Body. being
between the Town and them, there was foon be-
twixt them a fmart Engagement, our People receiy-
ing their firft Fire, and then inftantly falling on them |
Sword in Hand ; which Way of fighting they not at
all liking, like daftardly Villains turned their Backs,
and fled ; however, their Flight was not fo profpe-
rous, but that we flackened the Pace of a great many
of them, killing at leaft two thoufand 3 and our Par- .
ty, faving about a thoufand, who were fent to plun-
der and burn the Town, returned with fifteen bun-
dred of their Heads to Yerrident, to the very g creat
Joy of the Inhabitants, and with the Lofs only on
our Side of about one hundred and fifty Men, and
about fixty wounded.
x
Now is the Tyrant, after fubduing thofe infolent
Thieves, in very high Efteem at Terrident, and
treated by the Country round as their Emperor in-
deed, heaping in their Prefents. upon him in great
Abundance 3 and thofe wha were not thereof fo
) ‘mindful,
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mindful,.as he thought they ought to be, he failed
not to ‘quicken their Memories by a Party of Horfe ;
though, in fhort, he had no very great Oceafion of
nfing Hoftilities, all (or at leaft the much greater
Part of them) readily conforming to his Demands,
and his Army (very. much to his Satisfaction) by the
End of eighteen Months was increafed to eight thou-
fand. Rave Soldiers : At which Time, on Advice
from his Mother of the Blacks being alfo highly dif-
gufted with the Proceedings of Aduley Ali, and that
fhe had again gained the greateft Part of them to his
Intereft and Reftoration to the Throne, and that fhe
would have him to haften with all Diligence to
Mequinez, he with his Army. left Terrident, and
in twenty four Days arrived at and fat down before
Zedlah, where the Alcaydes Adulsotjibbilly and Adabo-
met Belchoufe were with four thoufand Soldiers clofely
fhut up, and denied him Entrance after a moft info-
~Jent Manrer; which to that Degree nettled him,
that he was thoroughly refolved to get in by Force,
or not to give out folong as he faw any Probability
Femaining ; and there was for three Days very hot
W ork on both Sides, when the Rebels finding tl they
could not with all their Strength keep him from en-
tering, they gave us up the Town in Poflefion, and
retired into the Caftle, where they held us at Bay for
the Space of thirty-three Days, and then (though
they had not. all this while kill’d of us abovea hun-
dred) they furrendered themfelves to the Emperor’ $
Me ey. 4
' Now are they ordered to march out, and thirty-
feven of their Chiefs (but without A/uloorjibbilly)
inflantly appearing, they were by the Emperor (who
7 : was,
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was then fitting on Horfeback on the other Side of 2
River which ran between him andthe Town, out of |
Mufket Shot) commanded before him, afking them in
a furious Manner, if theydid not think themfelwes
tobe very infolent Fellows, not only to deny their
Sovereign Entrance into his own Town, but impu-
dently to murde; his Body Guards, before his Face,
as no Doubt they would him, had it been in their
Power, that he thought they might think it enough
for him to be driven from his own, and to make
fuch hard Shift as he had done for the lait twoYears,
to content thei for all the Injuries he had ever done
them, for that he had undergonea very hard and
unjuft Exile ; yet had Poin again put it in his
Power to revenge his own. Injuries, and that they
fhould be the fir{t Sacrifices to his jult Rage, then
looking at. them vesy fiercely, he commanded of
them aloud. where was Yidilly, they told him, that
as he had been for fome Time before in his Dithabille,
he was then in order to appear with the greater De-
cency before his Sovereign, putti ing on his. Cloaths,
a Dog, faid he, has be a mind ta die in State ; looking
at our People, go faid he, bring the Dag befere me, but
hearing foon after, as all thou ught, the Report of a
Mufket, a Meffenger came to tell him, that he had
fhot himfelf with a Piftol, a daftardly Dig, faid he,
frat bimfelf, ga rury fy; hae has Body to the Tap of
the Wails, threw it down, and drag it hither ; which
was inftantly done and his Head as their grand Ring-
leader cut off; and after his, thofe of all the Reft, |
‘and their Bodies thrown into the River when he
alfo ordered to be brought before him all Fibidie’s
Servants, in Number Thirty-feven, who were all
ufed after the fame Manner ; and all the Heads were
fetup on a little Watch Tower, juft within the
Draw-bridge,
oP ae
aanee
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Draw-bridee, after which he pardon’d all the Ref,
“and then we were again at Liberty to refréfh our-
felvesschowever, as our Army was by this Tinie
very miueh increafed from Adeguinez and divers other.
_. Pes, he did not think fir to go “into the “Fown?.
butTehcamp'd with them, on the further Side of the
River, where he had before receiv’d the Victims a
and where in a very flrert ‘Time after, came to him.
Flowmead Lofmee, and with him fx thoufand Blacks,.
to acguaint him from the Black Army th general,
that they were all again intirely in his {ntere!t, and
that he was come by their Orders to récondu& him.
to his former Poffeffions ; to which he anfwered;
that as he had fo lately received at their Hands, firch
il Ufage, it was very much to be doubted: if their
carts and Tongues wage’d together,’ for that
he had thro’ their Means, already undergone moft
unfpeakable Hardfhips, therefore he hoped they could
not take it Tl, (confidering it to be very natural fora
burnt Child to dread the Fire) for him to int on:
nine of their Principals to be firft delivered into his:
Hands, as a Pledge of their Sincerity, and after:
naming who they fhould be, as fir! Selim Ducullce,
their head Bafhaw, and four of his Sons, Lily Du-
culiee their Kinfmam, Abdenheem, Coddsorlafferes, and
. Abdallah Bememfoddeel 3 on which Howmead Lafmee
went directly back again to Adeguinez,-and at’ the
end of ten Days again returned with tl:zm, when he;
notwicthitanding his flippery Footing, order’d four of
them, wiz. the two elder Ducullces, Abderheem, and
Coddoarlafferee to be inftantly on the Spot beheaded :
_and the four Sons after beholding the Deaths of their -
‘Fathers, to be with Bememfoddeel conducted by the
Army to Adequinez, where the Tyrant at the Head
‘of his old Army and the fo fcarcely reconeil’d Blacks
intermix’d;
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intermixt, got fafe in fix eafy Days March ; and, af
ter his fone Abfence of twenty-two Months, again
in Poffeffion of the Empire ; though by the B! acks,.
mor they by him, no further trufted, than one Ene-
my might another, 7
Now is Muley Abdallah, notwithflanding his fo
late and grievous Exile, again about Aequinez, be-
ginning again to butcher his Subjects,* fending the
five furviving Hoftages in Chains to Booffecran,
where the four Brothers were in a very fhort Time
ftrangled, and Benemfoeddel (to fhew the Tyrant’s
very extraordinary Clemency) pardoned, and fent
backagain to Meguinez, to rejoice with his Friends :
The Tyrant, not content with murdering his Sub-
jects, treated the poor Ghriftians at Booffacran after
a mol
* It is related by a 1 Prench Author, that fcarce a
Week paffd without Abdallah’s putting to Death
near two thoufand of his Subjeéis in the moft horrid
Manner, fame by nailing them to Walls, others by be-
sug tied by the Feet toa Méule’s Tail, and fo dragged
through all the Streets in the moft violent Mater:
Orbers he kept inceffantly employed at the maf? laborious
Works, folely to make them as miferable as he could:
He even obliged all the Inhabitants of the City of Me-
— quinez, of whatever State or Candition, without Ex-
cepitor, to work every Saturday in pulling down and —
aeniolifbing a City, which he thought flood in the Way
of his Seraghtes.
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a moft grievous and cruel * Manner, fetting them at
Work, in digging a deep and wide Ditch thro’*a
hard Rock, round his Pieafure Houfe, himfelf, with
his fevere Eye, being their Overfeer.——-One’ Day
came thither with their Prefents and Excufes for not
Waiting on-him at Tedlah, twenty-five of the prin=
cipal Inhabitants of Old Fez, telling him in great
Humility, that notwithftanding they had not waited:
onhim there, yet were they neverthelefs his Majef-
ty’s moft dutiful and obedient Servants, altogether as’
Much as thofe that had, and that he might be af- |
fured it fhould in all their future Ations be made
moft evidently appear ; at which the Tyrant {mi-
ling, ‘anfwered, AZy moff rebellious Fezians, f mean
my Mafters and Governors, or at leaft 1 know it
Asi! ae SUZ would
=
* The French Author aforementioned informs usy
that while they were employed in demolifhing a City
he bad ordered them to pull down, one of bis greatest
Pleafures feemed to be to order his Guards to drive
great Numbers of them under Walls which had been
undermined, azd were juft ready to fall, that he
might fee them buried quite alive in the Ruins. In
fort, there was no Sort of Inhumanity, but Muley
Abdallah feemed to take even a Pleafure in’: Neither
Goodne/s, Merit, or the firidteft Ties of Blood, put
any Reftraint on bis Cruelty 5 even his own Mother was
in perpetual Danger of lofing her Life by his Flands :
One Day in particular he went with a Piftel in bis
Hand to her Apartment, with a Defign to kill ber ;
_ but fhe being advifed of it, went out to meet him, and
embracing him, [poke to him with fo much Tendernefi,
the Tears at the famé Time falling down her Cheeks,
| : that
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would be fo were it in your Power, which [ am re-
folv’d fhail never be , then calling to his Guards, ere,
take ihefe Dogs and call ihe Headjman, who. inftantly
‘appearing, he order’d him to cut off all their Heads,
and the Victims being plac’d ina Row, he ftruck off
‘Twenty-four of them, at fo. many Strok:s, and
then the Tyrant order’d him, to hold his. Hand for.
that he had taken Notice of the Survivor to be blind
in one Eye, and therefore as he could then fee more.
than ail the Reft, he would fend him back to. his
Fellow
that fhe foftencd his barbarous Heart, fo that. be
» feemed feized with Horror at the Aétion he was going.
to. commit, and denied it in the frrongeft Manner ;
however, bis Mother thought it prudent to abjent her-
Self from his Prefence and Court for a som gutekalen
Line.
Nothing could exceed his Ingratitude and Cr nelly 'y. tg
the Bafhaw Hogmy, Governor of Mequinez, wha
had been a chief Inffrument in felting him on the
Torone, and to whom he had Sworn in bis firft - Trau-
| fperts, on bis being proclaimed King, that he would
never make Ufe ef a Launce or Fuzil againft him,
pbowever, taking Umbrage: at the great Reputation af
this Bafiaw, and the Ejteem he was in with bis Peo-
ple, on siecoeuiti of his great Mertt.and Virtue, be or-
dered him one Day to come before him, and after having
reproached him with Aceufations which had no Foun-
"i dation, he ordered bim to fit down and puil of bis Tar-
bant 3 when immediately a great Number af Boys,
who bad been provided for the Purpofe, came sabout
him, and with Picces of Lead they bad in their Lands
firuck upon his Head, till they bad beaten it in Pieces,
and
Lier y
Fellow’Citizens, to reform their Errors, and to. tel]
them if they did not, he would not in a very fhort
Time leave a Head upon the Shoulders. of any one
of them, altho’ in that, indeed he was very much
miftaken, he being himfeif in a very little Time af
ter, by the Black Army and thofe of Fez, thro’ the
Inftigation of this narrow efcap’d Blinkard, a fecond
‘Lime driven out and Aéahcmet Wolderriva, (one of
his Brothers) fet up in his room.—And now the Ty-
rant wanting Money, Horfes, Arms, Gc. lam, with
Balfhaw
and immediately after this, both his Secretary and Byo-
ther were ferved in the fame Manner. 3
He foow’d no lefs Cruelty ta eight young Alcaydes,
to whofe Adarriage he had juft given his Confent.. ft
ts ihe Cultom of thofe Parts, that the new-marricd
Couples (during the Space of feven Days) take upon
them amongji their Kinsfolks and Friends, the Title of
King and Queen 3 and during this Lime, they have a
Power of putting a Forfeiture on, thofe who were pre-
fent at ther Wedding, and of throwing into the Water
with all their Cliaths on, thofe who refufe 10 pay it :
But thefe Rejotcings are only made when the Bride is
found a Maid; for when it proves otherways, the
Hlufoand fends her back teher Father's Haufe, and the
Pather has a Right te firangle her. Thefe eight young
Aicaydes, according to Cuficin, affumed this Power du-
ring the feven Days thinking nea Harm ; but farce
were thefe Days of Rejsicing over, but the Tyrant
fent for them, and having reproached them for the
Liberty they bad taken, as a heinous Crime, heor--
dered them to be tied by the fect 10 a Adule’s Tatly and
aM
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Bafhaw Caffam Rereezoon, and feveral thoufand o-
thers, fent to Belearge’s old Garrifon of Srant, (or
rather indeed my own, I being after his Death put_
in Pofleffion of it, by old A4uly Swine; and where
the Inhabitants were dire@ly order’d to bring in all
they had, and which I believe many of them did,
and others were about to: do as they would no Doubt
: | all
in that Manner drawn through all the Strects of Me-
quinez, till they were dead. 3 , |
A young Spanith Slave, for whom he feem’d to have
@ great Value, bearing that he was about to give Li-
berty to eleven Spanith Slaves, fell down on his Knees,
and entreated him in the tendereft and mof? refpect ful
Adanner, that he would be pleas’d to let bis Father,
who was likewife a Slave, and far advanced in Years,
be one of the Number of thofe whe were to be releas’'d 3
ta which Abdallah made no Reply: The next Day the
“Stave with Tears in his Eyes, and in the moft moving
Manner, renewed bis Requeft 5 but Abdallah looking
upon this fo natural and praife-worthy Affection as a
— Grime, ordered the Slave to be immediately tofs’d up
an the dir, and let fall upon his Head till he expired :
And as if this was not cruel enough, and as if be had
been willing to punifp the Father for the Tendernefs of |
bis Son, he fet the poor old Man to fuch bard Labour,
that be died a few Days after.
His Mother one’ Day reprefenting to bim that it was
contrary to Flumanity to put the Innocent to Death and
beneath his. Dignity to be the Executioner of them him-
Self, be replied, That his Subjects had no. longer a
Right to Life, than he pleas’d, and that he knew no
greater Pleafure, then that of putting them to Death
with his own Hands. Relation de Maroc, P, 208.
oo ee |
all done, had not the Tyrant fled with a few into the
Mountains, fending a Letter to the Bafhaw at. Stants
for him to follow him with all his People, for that om
him was his fole Dependence, and therefore as his-
Affairs were then at the lowelt Ebb, he defired that
he would be as expeditious in it as poffible he could,,
yet, notwithftanding he was very inclinable thereto,
and ufed all poffible Arguments with his People, he
could not prevail with more (though our whole Ar-
my then wasin all 15000) than 800 to go with him,
and as to my own Part I thought I had followed him
and his evil Genius too far before, and therefore as I
faw a likely Proipe@ for Efcape, was refolved to fol-
Jow him no further, but with all my Might to pur-
fue it; and in order thereto I dire@ly went back in
Company of 14000 of my fellow Soldiers to Meque~
nex, and went dire@ily to the Black Army 5 where»
we found Mahomet Woolderriva as Emperor at their
Head, offering him our Service, and direGtly joining
them, and as atthat Time our Number, by way of
falling from one Party, and joining the other, was:
very confiderable, we were by him. moit courteoully
received.
Now before I can bring my Marks, to bear, I
find myfelf obliged to make a fhort Tour or two,
and after my fo longand many good Services in the
Armies of the Tyrant, am: now about to fight again{t
“him, as indeed I could always (and efpecially after
his cruel Ufage of my Deliverer from the bloody
Knife at 4Jamoor) have found in. my Heart to have
done ; for notwithftanding I followed "him and his:
evil Genius fo long, yet did I always hate bia,
and now to that Degree, that 1 was refolv’d to
hazard
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hazard the laft drop of my own Blood; to facrifice
that-of the Tyrant to Simo Hamet’s Ghoft ; and in
erder thereunto lam nowone in anArmy of 100,000
well appointed Soldiers following him witha zealous
Refolution of Revenge into the Mountains, and tho’
we made ali imaginable (peed and fearch’d the lurking
Places as Hunters for their Game for the Continuance
of three Days, yet could not we light en him, there-
fore as the Weather was excefiive cold, the Snow .
prodigious deep, and {till more falling, we by the ge-
neral Confent for that Time, and till a more con-~
venient Seafon ieft him there, with his few Atten-
gants to cool his ungovernable Paffions, and returned.’
almoft dead. with Cold- to Mequinez. |
Now am] again all cn fire for Efcape, and note
withitanding my former Mifcarriages and miracu-.
lous. Prefervations that Way, why might not I once
be fo lucky to get clear ? 1 was twice before within —
an. Ace of it;-and therefore, why might not my’
Chance the third ‘Time turn up that Ace alfo ?. how-
ever, I thought it highly neceflary, that before an —
Affair of that Nature was again to be undertaken, it
ought to.be with myfelf ferioufly debated, and theres
fore. J ferioufly confidered thereof,: and -propos’d: fe-
veral ways to myfelf:, As firft, that notwithftanding
my fo narrow Efcape, on failure of efcaping at AZar-
cegangue, why might not I now be by that way fue-
cefsful ; to which I was. by myfelf foon anfwered,
remember the murdering Kaife at Aflamoore raves
narrowly I mift it, and that my Deliverer was then
dead, and very probably many of my cruel Perfecutars
il living 5 why might not fall again inte their
Hands ? and ther fore it was @ miofi hazardous and
danger cus
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dangerous Undertaking : Then (faid I) why may not I
get off from Saliee ? I was again by myfelf anfwered,
iConfider the Story of the Sloop, and Alcayde Ambork
|Foolan, the Black Governor : That (faid 1) can be no
Ob/tacle to my Defigns, he being to my Knowledge long
fince dead ; and as to the Moors, they Anew nothing of
the Matter ; and therefore fet it down in Probabi-
lity Number one. And next came in Queftion, that
iin Cafe I could not fucceed there to my Mind, what
ikelihood might there be by Way of Santa Cruz 3 to
hich I was again by myfelf anfwered, Yhut Santa
Cruz was a very long and dangerous Fourney 3 how-
ever, if I took Care to manage with Caution, it might
e the moff likely of the two: So J for the Time,
ithout fettling my Refolutions,teft-it to hang be-
tween them both till the Moryfing, and fo well as I
‘ould fettled myfelf for the Night to Sleep, and I be=
ing therein very much difturbed by Dreams, as how
[ fhould get up and be going, &c. I at my awaking
ade a thorough Refolution with myfelf to go firft
to Sallee, and if I could not there perform to my
ind, to proceed for the latter Place. My Refolutions »
thus fettled, I made all the neceflary Preparations in
Power for my Departure; and then, to my very
reat Diflatisfation, I was, on fome Advices broughe
to Mequinexz from the Mountain Ceedehamfoe, di-
rectly again fummoned to Arms, and with the Army
‘conlifting of One Hundred Thoufand Blacks, and
ifty Thoufand Moors) obliged to march thither ;
cor that Afuley Abdallah was there, and that he had
chere about him a vaft Army of the Mountaineers,
hich indeed we foon found far to exceed our Num-
ders 3 but the Weather being exceeding wet, as we
aad almoft continual Rains for fixteen Days, we
ould not, fo foon as we would, attack them ; how-
»4 ever;
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ever, at Jaf the Rains ceafing, we fell. upon them»
Sword in Hand ;- and, after a fhrewd Skirmith,»
wherein. many T Hontands were flan on both Sale
we put them to Flight, the Tyrant (foon after the
Commencement of the Engagement) with a few
fhewing the reft the Way ; and as they were well)
acquainted with thofe fecret Haunts, and we on the®
other Hand altogether unacquainted, we thought it by
no Means proper to follow them, but returned again -
to Mequinez; and though we. had of it for two
Months a very hard Time, and loft a great many»
‘Thoufands of our Men, yet lam, thank God, as to’
my own Part, to my very great Satisfaction, une.
wounded, and which did (thank the Divine Majefty).
in a wonderful Manner confirm my former Refolu-y
tions ; and on the eighth Day following I fet outs)
But before I proceed, I fhall firft beg Leave to ac-»
quaint you, that on the feventh Day, or Day before
my Departure, I happening to be in Company with.
two of my old Acquaintance, a German anda Spa
niard, there came jn a Black Woman, who: looked:
very hard at me, defiring I would give her a Blan=
keel: A Blankeel! faid 1; Yes, {aid fhe, and then I:
will tell you allthe Secrets of your Heart : 1 told her:
I would with all my Heart give her a Blankeel ; but:
as tomy Fortune, as being no Doubt but a foolith:
Whim, I had much rather it fhould be left alone,,
and therefore fhe fhould not trouble her Head any.
further about it. Fob, faid fhe, but Lo muff, that you!
may (when you are got off fafe to wee own Country)
think upon me : To my own Country | (faid I in a feem-?
ing Surprize) What in. Gea’s Name can you mean by:
phat? Prithee talk no more of fuch- Impoffibilities x1
O no, no, faid fhe, it is not impoffible,. and that yous
ql] peel fiid : Then putting one End of a Piece of,
green
r we yt
green Cane fhe had in her Right Hand into the Fire;
taking it out, and therewith crofling the Palm of her
Left Hand, fhe told me my real Fortune indeed ; as
how I had:of along Time, and was then refolved.
within myfelf on Efcape, that I had more than once
before endeavoured it, though without Succefs, even.
to the Hazard of my Life; however, I fhould not’
then fear, for I fhould a€tually. be fuccefsful: There=.
Fore, {aid fhe, let not your Courage be caft down, for
vou. foall (though with much Toil, and many Hazards)
get fafe Home, and find your Father and Mother (wha
have for many Years fuffered a great deal on your,
Account) frill living : O, Laid 1, you ave in that very
much miftaken, my Father and Mother having for many.
Years ago been in their Graves 3 and had they, as
you fay, been frill living, they would never have been
y ue feen more; therefore, faid 1, pray talk no fur~
ther on this Subjeét, for if it fhould be carried any
‘urther, it might be taken. for Faét, and prove to me
of very dangerous Confequence.: No, no, {aid the, keep
jut a good Heart, and your own Secrets, and all the
Devils in Barbary fhall not have Power to fruftrate
vaur Intentions, for to Chriltian Land are you boundy
and thither again are you deftined togo. ie
. To lean on, or to give any Credit to fuch Foppe-.
ries as thefe, was what I could never before chime.
ti with ; yet, as fhe had fo far told me my Intenti-
ons hitherto, I could not but entertain of what was to
come more thana common Notion ; and that En/eph
Flaunfel’s Magick Doings heretofore at Aequinez,
were more than imaginary ; and therefore I was very
much encouraged herewith.- And now am {f,
about to. lay me down for the laft Time to fleep in
Wequinez, where 1 had fo often before had an aking
sdeart 3 and as I could not now take any Reft, I fe- —
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rioufly refleted with myfelf how wonderfully I had
been hitherto (through the Goodnefs of God) pre-
ferved from fo many Perils and Dangers, how many
thoufands I had feen flain in the Field of Battle, and
why it might not have been my unhappy Fate as well
as their’s; then humbly offering up my moft unfeign’d
‘Thanks to God for all his Mercies thitherto receiv-
ed, and earneftly imploring his future Protection,
got me up, and foon with an eager Refolution fet
myfelf in Order for my March: And as all my
TranfaGions under any of their Emperors end here,
I fhall (and I think very properly) call the following
Part of my Hiftory my Wonderful Efcape and Happy
| Return.
Burt before we proceed to the Relation of this, and
take Leave of Barbdry, it will be proper to give
fome further Account of the ftrange Cuftoms and
Manners of the AZoors, and {ome other Things
worthy Notice.
A DULTERY is punifhed with Death; and if a
Chriftian or a ‘few is found to have to do witha
Moorifh Woman, they muft either turn to the AZa-
kometan Religion or be burnt.
Any Man may divorce his Wife (if fhe was not
given him by the Emperor) when he. pleafes, giving
what he agreed (before the Cady ) to lay out upon her,
and keeping the Children he has by her: The
Form is only: delivering her a Letter that he has
_ done with her, and fhe may feek a new Hufband,
-'Thofe who defire toindulge in having many Wives,
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marry the handfome Daughters of poor Men, by
which they avoid the Inconveniency of drawing on
themfelves the [l]-will of powerful Relations, in cafe
of Divorce, and get rid of them at a fmall Ex-
pence.
TueEy, as well as all other A/ahometans, are al-
lowed to marry four Wives, and to have as many
Women more as they can keep, all of them ftriving
who fhall beft pleafe their Lord and Mafter, that he
fhould beftow his Favour on them ; for they are
kept in great Subjection, and think themfelves happy
if they can pleafe their Hufbands by waitingon them.
They are not fuffered to go to Church, left the De~
votionof the Men fhould be interrupted by their Pre-
fence, but have fet Forms of Prayersand Ceremonies
to be performed at Home.
Tuey have no Way of gathering Cream as in o-
ther Places, but make their Butter of all the Milk as
it comes from the Cow, by putting it into a Skin,
and fhaking it till it becomes Butter: It is always
four, I fuppofe for want of cleanfing the Skin, and
when melted to Sauce, for want of Subftance turns
thin. ‘“Thofe that have great Quantities, keep it in
Holes made in the Ground: plaiftered within : The
lefs are kept in earthen Jars buried : hey don’t dif-
like it when four or five Years old, having very un-
natural Taftes in that. They alfo wrap up the Cawls,
Suet and Fat of Cows, Sheep, and Goats in great
Rolls, which in Winter is fold to the Poor inftead of
Butter.
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Their Cheefe is nothing but Curds put into that)
Form, and fours in five or fix Hours after it’s made:
but they keep it till it’s old, and eat it tho’ dry and
ill-tafted : ‘They don’t efesin Cow’s Milk fo much
as that of Goats or Camels, efpecially the. lattez, |
which they think nourifhing and incentive 5 it is
much thinner than Cow’s Milk.
Their Bread is extraordinary good and cheap, ef-
“pecially that of the Flour of Fez, renowned for its
‘Whitenefs too : It is baked in Cakes near a Foot in
‘Diameter, and an Inch and half thick 3 it is to be
had every Day hot, (for fo they like it) and the
Baker pays himfelf in-Kind aecording to the Quan-
tity ; fometimes it comes to an half, or a quarter of
a Loaf for baking, and thefe Pieces are fold in the
Market ; but poor People eat Bread made of Corn,
which is called the third Crop’; it isa Mixture of
feveral coarfe black Grains, that refemble Seeds more.
-than Corn, and is very bad, bat cheap: With this
their Fowls are fed. ,
‘Trey cut the Throats of all the Creatures they
eat, having firft turned the Heads of them towards
the Eaft and by South, (as AZecca lies from them,)
‘and called on the Name e God ; they ufe a World
of Water to wath away the Blood, and cutting the
Meat into Quarters, foak it in a Fountain for two
Hours ; and when it is to be drefled, cut it into fmall
‘Pieces and wafh it again, ufing’ Abundance of Gar-
lick, Onions, and all Manner of Spices, |
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Wren the Women vifit one another, they leave
their Slippers at the Door of the Room, to give No-
‘tice that a Stranger is there; during which Time
the Men refrain from going in to their Wives or
Daughters, they being very punctual in obferving the
Cuftoms relating to the Women,
THe Moors very often wath their Heads, Hands,
and Feet, being obliged to it by their Religion, every
‘Time before their fet Prayers (which are five Times
a Day) if they have been upon any neceflary Occa-
~fion, or have accidentally met. with any ordinary
Pollution ; but if they have had the Misfortune to |
-touch a Swine, or committed any Act of extraordinary
Defilement, or converfed with Women, they are en-
joined to wath every Part of their Bodies, left they
fhould be polluted when they go to their Devotion :
And therefore to be cut of Danger of common Pol-
lution, they always pray without their Drawers.
They are forbid playing at any hazardous Games
for Money ; and thofe that break this Law, are pu~
nifhable by Baftinado, Fine, or Imprifonment. They
fometimes divert themfelves at Draughts, Chefs,
or Ombre ; but are not much addicted to Gaming,
-nor care for Study or Reading ; and it may very
juftly be faid, that Eating, Drinking, Sleeping, W o-
men, Horfes, and Prayers, almoit wholly engrofs
ther Time.
Fasy have a great Hatred for the Name of a
Chriftian : It has been obferved in Squabbles among
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toem,or when a poor Man falls out with his Afs, that
the firft Name is Carran (1. ¢.) Cuckold, then he
_ealls him Son ofa Few 3 but when they have a mind
to fpit their utmoft Malice, they fay You Son of a
Chriftian ; and it 1s the moft reproachful Word a-
mong them; never mentioning it without the Addi-
tion of G-d confound him; or, G-d burn his Father
ar Mother : Which Imprecations are taught the
Children as foon as they can fpeak: And that they
may be fure to grow up in Hatred againit them, they
celebrate a Feaft every Year about St. Fohn’s Day,
in memory of fome Victory gained over the sees
tians ; at which Time the graveft People will be~
pafhng thro’ the Streets with wooden Horfes, Swords,
Launees and Drums, with which they equip the
Children that can fearce go, who meet in Troops in
the Street, and engaging fay, Thus we deftroy the
Chriftians. They aifo firmly believe, that thofe who
are killed fighting againft them go ftraight to Heaven,
and deferve no lefs than an infinite Reward for de-
ftroying thofe Enemies of their Law ; and they are
forbid by it, to fell Corn to any Chri/fian Country.
‘Fe Shops in the Cities are very {mall, and have
no Doors to them; but the Maiter having opened
the Shutters, jumps inand fits crofs-legged, upon a
Place raifed about the height of a Compter ; the
Goods are difpofed in Drawers round about him,
which he can reach, for the moft part, without mo-
ving out of his Place, his Cuftomers ftanding in the»
Street while they are ferved. |
\
‘In their Houfes, they are always fitting on Matts,
or lying ; and if they go out, and itis not on Horte-
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back, they never go farther than to make a Vifit, un-
lefs their Bufinefs requires it, but daily fpend five oF
fix Hours fitting on their Hams before their Doors,
thinking it moft ridiculous to walk up and down a
Room: Againft which they argue, faying, Why
fhoulda Man move from one end of the Room to
the other, without any apparent Caufe ? Can he not
as well ftay inthe Place he isin, as go to the other
End purely in order to come back again ! :
Trey feem not (as we do) to obferve the Day
for Bufinefs, and the Night for Sleep, but fleep and
wake often in the four and-twenty Hours, going to
Church by Night as well as Day, for which Purpofe
their Talbs call from the Top of the Mofques, (or
Placesof Worfhip) having no Bells, every three Hours;
throughout theCity. In going to Church they ob-
ferye no Gravity, nor mind their Drefs, but as foon
as the Talb begins to bellow from the Steeple, the
Carpenter throws down his Ax, the Shoemaker his
Awl, the Taylor his Sheers, and away they all run
like fo many Fellows at Football ; when they come
into the Church; they repeat the firft Chapter of the
Alcoran ftanding.; after which they look up, and lift _
up their Hands as much above their Heads as they can;
and as their Hands are letfurely coming down again,
drop on their Knees with their Faces towards Kebla,
(as they call it) or Eaft and by South; then touching
the Ground with their Foreheads twice, fit a: litle
while on their Heels muttering a few Words, and
rife up again: This they repeat two or three
Times; after which, looking on each Shoulder, (I fup-
pofe to their Guardian Angels (they fay, Selemo Ali-
hom (i. e.) Peace be with you ; and have done. pst view
Ler:
if tego j
there are many at Prayers together, you would think —
‘they were fo many Gally-flaves rowing, by the Mo-
‘tion they make on their Knees.
Tuere Churches are all: matted at the bottom, and
»about four Foot high round the Pillars, . having run-
ning Water in them ; but fuch as are built in) high
Places, where they can’t have aFountain, have Wells.
Their way of building them feems irregular, becaufe
they generally ftand furrounded with Houfes ; you
cannot go into them on any Termsbut thofe of taking
their Religion, They are fqguate, low roofed; fup- +
ported with many arched Pillars, and divided equally |
into Alleys, about four Yards broad. Againft one
of the Pillars, as near the Centre of the Church as
may be, isa Pulpit, in which they preach every Fri-
day ; but fuch as are not learned in the Law, only flay
to fay their ordinary Prayers and return... That which
they call the Head of the Church, is a fort of Cupo-
la fronting to the Eaftward, in Honour of the Place
of their Prophet’s Birth. Into this, on their Fefti-
val Days, the Cady or head Prieft enters, (who, is
alfo a Juftice) and turning his Face Eaftward, prays,
all the. People kneeling behind him in the Body of
the Church ; then he turns himfelf to the People,
being ftill in the fame Pofture, and gives, thema
Blefiing fo all is ended ; if there isno Cady, fome
Talb does this. Ihave not heard of any Form. of
Cenfecration they have: But if a Swine happens to
enter into any of their Churches (as it once fell out
at Tetuan) they are unfanctify’d, and mutt. be-pulled
down. © The Steeples fiand indifferently in any part of
the Church. And in great “Towns there are, many
a5 ck»Chappels, and sage Houfes without any :
ay Sedades .
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‘Befides, they often pray in Fields, at the Monu-
ments of their Saints, with a String of Beads in their
‘Hands, which they count over, faying, at every one
‘they touch, Stag for Allah, (i. ©.) God preferve me
Friday is their chief Holiday and they have a Pro-
phecy, that they fhall be conquered on that Day by
the Gbriftians ; for which Reafon, when the ‘Lalbs
‘eall from the top of the Mofques, the Gates of all
the walled Towns are fhut, and the fame is obferved
in the Emperor’s Palace at AZegainez.
Tue Habit of the Priefts is the fame with the
Laity ; but they are known by their Beards which are
dyed red, and the Leather on the top of their Shoes
-being cut in the Shape of a Flower-de-luce,
Upon the Death of any Perfon of Note, Women
‘are hired to lament, and make fad Moan, beating
their Heads and Faces: If it be a Man, -all his
‘Wives get into the middle of the Houfe, put Afhes
on their Heads, jump about in a Ring, and fcream
-like fo many Cats, all the Time tearing their Cheeks
with their Nails. Some, when they lament over the
Dead, ‘afk them whether they had wanted any thing
‘inthis World ? Whether they had not had Cu/ca/Jooe
enough ? But ifthe Wife dies, the Hufband receives
‘his Friends Vifits of Condolance at his Door; and _
if he be of the middle Rank, ‘it is no Shame for him,
‘even on the Day of her Death, to go abroad and
provide for her Funeral, ~They wafh the Corps and.
‘wrap it ina new Shroud, and carry it on a Bier,
‘followed by a great number of People, who walk
very faft, calling upon’ GOD and Adahomet. They
eat Aidan | always
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ways bury their Dead out of Town, making the
Grave large at Bottom, that the Corps may have
Room enough ; and never put two Perfons in a
Grave, becaufe they fhould not miftake their Bones
at the Day of Judgment. ,
THEY are very fond of fine Tombs, which are
generally Cupolas built in their Life-time, with an
Entrance as wide as the Building. They are of fe-
veral Forms ; fome are low Pyramids, others fquare 5
and the Body put in the Middle. But there is no
Rule; for Alcayde Alle Ben Abdallah’s isa great
Square of thirty Feet at leaft; and in order to his
being a Saint, it is built on holy Ground, over
the Tomb of a Saint, where it is Death for a Few
t0 go.
THE ordinary Wayof burying, is by diggingabout
three Feet into the Ground, into which they put the
Body wrapt in the Shroud, (for they ufe no Coffins)
and pave it over with flat Stones, with a triangular
Stone ftanding in the Ground at the Head and Feet.
They have a Fancy that the Dead can fuffer, which
was found out by a Portuguexe Gentleman’s ftrag-
gling one Day ignorantly among the Tombs; a Adoor
came to him, and after ufing Abundance of Words,
forced him before the Cady. : The Gentleman com-
plained of the Violence, and faid he knew no Harm
he had done : But the grave Judge reply’d, Yes, it
was Harm, for the poor Dead pee being trod on
by Chriftian Feet - But in Confideration of his Ig-
norance, they releafed him. And the Emperor once
had Occafion to bring one of his Wives through a
Burying-
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Burying-place, which forced the People to remove
the Bones of their dead Friends, and caufed them to
grumble and fay, Neither the Dead nor the Living
could $e at Quiet for him.
THEY have a ftrange Notion of Ideots, whom
they reverence as Saints, and the Elect of God ; fo
that all their eminent Fools are led about, the People
kiffing their Garments, and giving them every Thing
but Money, whieh they are not to take ; and after
their Death, fome great Man hears of their Fame,
and makes it an A&t of Devotion to beautify their
‘Tombs ; or, if they had none, to build one over
their Grave, wherein they are laid, and worfhipped’
among the reft of their Saints. It is difficult either
to give a genera] Rule what a Saint in this Part of
the World is, or how he becomes fo 3 but any Thing
extraordinary makes one: Some are Saints by Defcent,,
others by fome particular Abilities, (as one in Tetuan
for curing fore Eyes ;) many for being Fools or
mad Men, and fome for being great Rogues ; as
one that was about the Emperor’s Perfon, and had
committed fome Villainy. The Emperor was going
to kill him, but declared he could not, for which he.
was immediately fanétified, and continued in great
Favour about him. Several of the Emperor’s Horfes
have been Saints ; nay, fome are at this Day ; one
particularly for faving his Life ; and if a Man fhould
kill one of his Children, and lay hold of this Horfe,
he is fafe : This Horfe has faved the Lives of fome
of the Captives, and is fed with Cufcaffoe and Camel’s
Milk : After the Emperor has drank, and his Horfe
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after him, fome of his Favourites are fuffered. ta”
drink out of the fame Bowl.
All Things are lawful for the Saints, becaufe it is”
fuppofed they have the Divine Impulfe annexed to
all their A@tions, whether they fteal, murder, or
ravifh: ‘There was a naked one at Sallee fome Years
ago, feized a young Wench in the Streets, who not.
well underftanding Sanctification, began to be tur-
bulent; but fome.of the holy ‘Tribe being nigh, ;
foon tript up. her Heels, and covered. them with.
their Alhagues, ‘There is another Saint at Alcaffar.
that isa great Huntfman; and the Governors beg, .
borrow, and fteal Dogs to prefent him with: But~
thefe Saints, like thofe of Europe, are fometimes de-
tected. One of them had acquired great Reputation
for Sanctity, froma Trick a ‘few learnt him, which
was to dip his Alhague in’ Spirits of Wine ; aud.
when he went into Church, he ufed to fet it on Fire
by the Lamp: This got him great. Reputation, and.
he was fent for to Court, grew great, and lived to. do
the poor Jews an ill Office ; but I think they were
even with him, for they told the Secret to one of:
the Emperors, who put his Holinefs to the. Tryal of.
more fubitantial Fire, which confumed his facred
Perfon, :
ANOTHER Saint alfo was undone by a fees this.
Saint pretended to go Mecca every Friday ; The
“Few, that knew the Cheat, fhewed him a ine String
of Beads, and afterwards fhewed them to the ita
peror, who was to afk the Saint to bring him a String
of Beads from Adecca. ‘The Saint returned to the
jews
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Few, got the Beads, and went to the: Emperor and«
pretended he had brought them from Adecca; but.
the Emperor fent him a longer Journey.
THEY tell the following Story of an Alcayde : Ay
Chriftian: making» a. Voyage to: Seay trufted a Saint’
with a Purfe of Goldy and at his Return went to de-.
mand it ; hedenied that he had fuch a thing, and the
Man made‘his Complaint to the Juftice, who told
him, That if he had been a A@gor, he mutt be fatis-.
fied with his denying» it, but being a Chriffiany all
the Juftice he could have was, that he fhould fwear
in the great Church, he had none of his Money 5,
the poor Man faid, that being a Chri/fian he could
not enter into the Church with him, and defired he
Thould fwearin the Alcayde’s Porch. ‘The Alcayde
was a Man of Wit, and thought by this the poor
Man looked on him for Juftice ; the Saint came firft :
and fat down.in the Poreh ;, when the Alcayde heard
of it, he invited him in, treated him familiarly, and
amuting: him with a Difcourfe of feveral) Things, got
his Beadssinto his Hand, ftole out of the Room and
fent them to his Wife, as a Token that the fhould
fend fuch a Purfe with fomuch Money, which ac-
cordingly came : This being a fufficient ConviGion,
the-Aicayde. robbed him of all he had, and turned his
Holinefs into the Hills a grazing.. , :
Ir a City happens to be founded near the Tomb of
a Saint, there is a Space round about it that has the
Privilege of being a Sanctuary. But the Emperors
have not {ferupled to violate thefe Sanétuaries, as one
did once at fez for a Negro who had committed’no
great
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great Crime, and took San@tuary in the Houfe of. a
ereat Saint. He fent the Alcayde of his whole Ar-
my of Negroes to demand him; but the Saint told
_ him plainly, he fhould not violate the Privilege of his
Houfe ; fo the Alcayde returned to the Emperor,
who killed him, notwithftanding the Efteem he bore
him ; for he was a brave Man, and a good Soldier
after the Manner of the Country. He ordered him
to be put upon an Afs, and flung before the Door of.
the Saint, and bid him fee what he had done in ma-
king him kill a Man he fo much efteemed. The
Saint was afraid, fent for the confiderable People of
the Town, and it was agreed to deliver the Man,
whom the Emperor immediately killed.
Tuey are mightily addifted to Fables and Super-
flition, relating many wonderful Things of their
Saints ; and, amongft the-reft of their Extravagan-
cies, believe fome People have a Malignancy in their
Eyes, by which they hurt all Things they look on,
efpecially little Children and fine Horfes : For which
Reafon the Emperor kept a little Son of his, who
was fair and handfome, from being expofed for many
Years. This the Spaniards call Adal de Ojo, and
the Portugueze, Quebranto ; for thofe two Nations
are of the fame Opinion. A former Alcayde of Jane
gier was one Day a fifhing, and not {ucceeding in his
Diverfion to his Wifh, he feized a poor innocent
Man, who ftood looking on, and accufed him of Adal
de Ojo, put him in Prifon, and fwore he fhould not
come out till he had paid him thirty or forty Du-
cats. It is well known that the old Romans had
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the fame Superftition, and it now prevails in the
Levant. } |
Tury have another extravagant Fancy, which iss
that God will grant their Requefts by being impor=
tuned ; andin the Time of great Rains, the Chil-
dren will be all Day running thro’ the Streets, calling:
for fair Weather, and in Drought for Rain ; this they
do with an hideous Noife, fometimes for eight Days:
together : If God does not give the Children Rain,
the Saints‘and learned Men go into the Fields, and»
call for Rain ; if that does not do, then they all go
together, bare-footed and meanly cloathed, to the
Tombs of their Saints, and there they afk Rain ; the
Emperor fometimes performs this Piece of Divotion
himfelf : But if all thefe fail, they turn all the Zews:
out ef Town, and bid them not return without Rain,
for they fay, Tho’ God would not give them Rain for
their Prayers, he will give the Jews Rain, to be rid
of their Importunity, their flinking Breath ana Feete
This was done fome Time ago at Tangier. |
HERE are a.great many Schools, where the Chil-
dren learn to read, write, cypher, and get the /co-
van by heart ; which, when they have gone through,
their Relations borrow a fine Horfe and Furniture,
and earry them: about the Town in Proceffion, with
the Book in their Hands, the reft of their Compa-
nions following, and all Sorts of Mufick of the
Country going before. dy
¥ SucH
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«. SucH as apply themfelves to the Study of. their
aw are admitted to hear publick reading and preach= _
ing in the Churches by the Talbs; and when approved
by them, are admitted into the Number, I could
never learn they had any Ceremony. of Initiation,’ at
leaft more than by the Majority of Voices, and that
he who was: the moft knowing, fhould be Cady or
Head of the Church, And the Chief Mufti, or Head
of the Church, is he that is chofe Cady in the moft
_. important City. But the Emperor //bmael who was —
of the Blood of the Prophet, and a Saint befides,
has made the Cady of Yafflet, the Country where
he was born, (which he pretends has a great Privi-
ledge in that refpect) Cady General of his Kingdoms,
oe he is called Cady of Adeguinez, -
Tue Moors falute one another when they meet,
by joining their Hands with a quick Motion, and /e-
paratine them immediately, kiffing each their own
Hand, if Equals, if not, the inferior kifles the fupe-
rior’s Hand, and oftentimes his Head.too. ‘They ufe
the common Terms of How do you do ? Where have
you been? I'm glad to fee you. If it be an Alcayde,
they kifs his Foot, if on Horfeback, if on Foot, his
. Hand, Cloaths, or the firit thing they meet with if |
fitting, his Knees.
Tue Current Coin of this Country are Gold Du-
cats, Biankills, and Fluces ; all other pieces of Gold
and Silver going but for as much. as they weigh ;
thefe Ducats are thin round Pieces of Gold, faimpe
with the Emperor’s Namezand pafs with them for
fourteen Ounces, am imaginary Sum, which amounts
to
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to about nine Shillings and Six- pence of our Money.
The Blankill is a little round piece of Silver, ftampt
alfo with the Emperor’s Name, worth about T'wo-
pence, four of them making one of their Ounces =
‘The Fluce is a Copper Coin, twenty-four of which
go to a Blankill, fo that their lowelt piece of Money
js-equal to the third part of a Farthing ; and yet
‘Things are fo reafonable here, that two or three of
them will purchafea Loaf of Bread, or Fruit, and
you may buy a good Fowl for a Blankill: Every
thing elfe is proportionably cheap, the Country about
Tetuan yielding plenty of Corn, Cattle, Poultry,
wild Fowl, and great Variety of fine Fruits. [have
ealled one of their Coins a Gold Ducat, to diftinguifh
itfrom the Ordinary Ducat, which with them is ten
Ounces, or fix Shillings and Eight-pence of our
Money.
_ Tus Emperor goes with great Pomp three Times:
a Year into a Field without the City Walls to per~
form his Devotions : We have. the following Ac=
count of this Ceremony from a Gentleman who at=
tended Commodore Stewart, and was an Eye-wit-
nefy of it. :
THERE attended the Emperor a vaft Number of
Horfe and Foot, who waited at an awful diftance,
with great Silence, while he prayed under.a Canopy
fet up inthe Field-:. As foon as he had done, and was:
mounted again, the Drums beat, and the Morfe be-
ean to Cavalcade. The Ambaflador was upon the
‘Town-wall, clofe by which the Emperor and all his
Attendanis returned;. this part of the Wall joining
. Jap: ne to
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to the Spanfh Convent, the Prior had built a hand+
fome Seaftold for us. About Ten of the Cloek they
began to pafs by, great Numbers of Foot firing, and
Horfe cavalcadmg, fome with Launces, and. others
with Firelocks, which prefenting at one another’s
Heads as they galloped along, they fometimes fet
their Turbants on Fire, and burnt their Faees ina
defperate Manner ; the Smoak (occafioned by their
often firing) a little clearing up, we faw eight or nine
Blacks in a Row, carrying large Colours, with
great gilt Balls on the Top of their Staves ; they were:
enclofed by the Emperor’s Soldiers, who jumped a-
‘bout and fired in the Ground before them: After
they were pafled, came Maley Mahomet Lariba, one
of the Emperor’s Sons ; he is Aleayde of the Stables,
or Mafter of the Horfe ; there attended him @
Guard of Horfe and Foot, at the Head of which he
rode witha Launce in his Hand, the Place where the
Blade joins to the Wood covered with Gold. Them
came a Calafh with fix black Women holding by the:
Sides, which was covered all over, fo that we could
not fee who was in it : After that was earried a Jarge
red Standard with a Half-Moon in the Middle,. fur=
rounded with Soldiers, about which they fired, and
fhouted very much... Then came the Emperor with:
a Fuzee in his Hand, his Umbrellow kept all the
Way twirling over his Head; and the Negroes con-
tinually fanning, and. beating the Flies from his»
Horfes As he came almof over-againft us, he pre-
fented his Piece at a Afecr who was got very near
hint, but did not fire, the Guards feizing on the
Fellow, and hawling him away, perhaps to be exe-
cutedior his Prefumption. Juft before the Emperor
marched.a Foot-guard, cloathed all in Leopard and
‘Fyger Skins, and a Guard of young Blacks with
7 | Launces,
| of: 7
Launces; and Fire-arms intermixed. Round about
him rode a great many of his Sons, and behind them
‘Troops’ of Horfe im Armour, fome gilt all over,.
others only their Helmets, which were of feveral
Shapes. After them went a great Number of Foot,
with Spears, Battle-axes, Bills, and Warlike Inftru-
ments of all Sorts.. This Body of Foot being pafs’d,
there came twenty of the Emperor’s led Horfes,
with Saddles of beaten Gold, fet with Emeralds and:
ether Stones, fome of which were very large. This
Show gave us the Sight of a vaft Number of very
fine and well managed. Horfes,.in Shape far exceed~
ing thofe in Europe ; and thefe twenty of the Empe-
ror’s were extreamly beautiful and ftately..
THey have in this Country a moft inhumay
Cuftom, viz, that any Man has the Liberty of buying:
another and all his Effects, to do what he pleafes
with him, by giving a certain Price to the Emperor,.
or the Gevernor of the Place he lives in. Which Cuf-
tom is practifed allover the Empire among the-Afors:
and ‘Fews ; whereby the Enjoyment of Life or For~
tune is not only precarious, but a Man is liable in am
Inftant to fall into: the extreameft Degree of Mi+
fery, at the Pleafure of any one who (prompted ei-
‘ther by Covetoufnefs. or Malice) will be at. the Ex-
|pence of buying-another, and run the Rifque of being
ire-imburfed' out of the Effects of the Perfon he buys 3.
iin which Cafe, they go.to the Bafhaw, Alcayde or
(Governor of a Province, and bargain with him (for
‘fo much Money) to have the Perfon they havea
‘Mind to 5 upon Receipt of which, the Bafhaw will
deliver the Wretch into the Hands of the Buyer, to
do what he pleafes with him. So that the bought Man
is frequently
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quently tortured in the cruelleft Manner, to make
him difcover what Money he has.” For an Inftance
of which barbarous Cuftom, we have inferted Part
of a Letter from Mr. Hatfield, an al ieghy Merc! hant
refiding at Tetuan:
T* 5 henday! Mr. Noble and I were epee ng 7? it
Prifon, where we jaw a Maniihanzed by the
Heels, with Trons upon bis Legs, Pinchers upon’ his
Nofe, bis Flefb cut with Sciffars; and two Men pers
petually drubbing him, and demanding Money. When
the Fellow was not able to [peaky they renewed their
Blows; aad this was a bought’ Many that they gave
500 Ducats: for, andiexpedted by thefe Tortures to force:
out of him 500 Ducats more : His Tortures were fo
fevere, that Noble, when he jaw him, cry’d out, O
Lord, the bleffed Fruits of Arbitrary Government !
Becaufe you had not feen fuch a Thing, I judged che.
— ure ei not be th ee epi
iin Memar an ino per tale hist Favourite, had.
ie fole Command of the Fews; butfeeing Ben Litars
another Few, boldl y puth himfelf forward, and fearing
a Rivalimthe Emperor’s Favour,:he: endeavoured to
deftroy him, and offered the Emperor‘fo many Quin-
tals of Silver for his‘ Head : Upon which he) fentsfor
Ben Hattar, and telling him, That a Sum of Money.
was bid: for his Head: He refolutely anfwered, That
he would give twice as much for the Perfon’s who of=
fered it’ Then the Emperor bringing them together,
téok the Money from both, and: told them,: They were
a Couple of Fools, and bid them: be Friends: Which
made Ben Hattar defire Memaran’s Daughter in Mar-.
tees who as granted to him, they now between.
them
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__ them govern the Jews of: his Dominions with ablo«
lute Authority,
THE Moors make frequent Ufe of an Herb call’d
Hajfheefbay or Hafpifba,* being a Kind of wild Herb,
though from its great Confumption fo much cultie
vated, that the Quantity raifed exceeds that of any:
other Vegetables, except the’ Grains for Bread : It is
f ¢ a made
Ul
* The ingenious Mr. Whitehorne, of Port/mouths
communicated to us the Account of this Herb, which:
he had from Mr. Pellow’s Mouth ;-and he thus re-
| marks: Lt was easy. to obferve this isthe Jame
with the Kaft-Indian Bangue, and it was not long bes
fore I conjectured it was the @eyptian. Nepenthes =
L then told Mr. Peilow what Homer faid.of it, and.
afk'd him what he thought of fuch a Gafe happening to:
@ Rerfon in the Height of a Delirium from. the Ham
fheetha 3 and he did not doubt-buz that it might be r=
terally true, and concurred with me in Opinion——I
know it 18 commonly fuppofed to be Opium, and that
Opium Aas been elpaufed by fome learned Men; but
wreever compares Pliny, L. 20. C. 18. with L. 216.
C..21. and L. a5.C. 2: Ithink will not agree to it.
ft ts very clear indeed, by his Manner of Jpeaking of
Nepenthes, aad his not attempting to defcribe it, that
at was not keown in his Time by that Name ; and per=
heaps then as now, becaufe its Uje was become vulgar,
and its Name changed, the Learned never imagined it
was what bad been fpoken of fo magnificently by the
Prince of Poets: fts Name of Excellence, the
Fierb,, and Ufe in ZEgypt at this Day for the fame.
ae Puetor
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made into an Ele€tuary or Conferve with Honey, and
is fold in the Markets, and fome Shops very much
like the London Gin Shops, where thofe who accuf-
tom themfelves to the Ufe of it meet in the Even-
ings: ‘The Mafters keep feveral Sorts of Mufical
Inftruments:
Purpofe as in Barbary, (of which Dr. Pocock takes:
Notice in bis Travels) feem to be very firong Pre-
funptions in its Behalf. .
Whilft F was confidering L. 21, Ch. 21. of Pliny,
where the Mention of Nepenthes ts intermixed with
that of Helenium,, I fufpeéted an Incongruity in the
Application of that Name to Allacampane, and con
jeétured that the Helenium of the Antients is our An-
gelica, which Fhave adventured not to fupprefs, Dr.
Boerhaave /ays Angelica wants an antient Namey
and his Charaéter ef Angelica, and Pliny’s-of Hele-
nium, agree very well together, and they who gave
Angelica its prefent Name, feem to have alluded ta
Pliny’s Reafon for the old Name.
The fame ingenious Gentleman has likewife com-
municated to us the following curious and ufeful
Particulars, viz.—-One Day, walking with Mr, Pel-
low, I fbew’d him the Aron, or Arum,. our Cuckow
Pit 3 andin Anfwer to my Enquiry about it, he told
me it-was exceeding plenty in Barbary 3 that the In-
habitants, in a Seareity. of Corn, were very much rex
hieved by ufing the Root for Food ; that it yielded a.
Flour as white as the fineft Fea Wheaten Flour,
which is the bef in the Country, and: they preferred i
to Barley Bread ; and. that in the Foot-Rot in Sheep,
the Shepherds take the frefhb Root, with Rock Salt, (and
as be remembers, @ little Greafe,) and putting it o @
sece
a nth, ua
Inftruments to accommédate their Guefts. After
the proper Dofes of it are taken, perhaps fome
Drams, the Skilfull play, fome fing, others dance,
fome become Poets, others feeand relate wonderful
Vifions, and the whole Company ‘is infpired with the
moit intoxicating Gaiety and Joy, far exceeding the
Z Effects
Piece of Linen, apply it to their Feet, and then few a
Bit of Leather over it, and the Sheep were ufually
cured in two or three Days.———If this Jhould fuce
ceed in England, it will be of great Advantage : Cer-
tainly it ought to havea fatr Trial, as the Diftemper
as fo difficult to cure, by the Methods already in Ufe
here. There is great Probability for-it, as that Herb
has fo high a Charatter both from the antiznt and ma=
dern Phyficians 3 and Pliny, L. 24. C. 16. fays of its
Ulcera Omnium Generum, five Phayedenz fint,
five Carcinomata, five ferpant, five Polypi in Nari-
bus, Succus mire fanat ; that is, Its Juice wonderfuls
ly cures Ulcers of vall Kinds, Cankers, Polypus in the
Nofe, &c. That on enquiring after the wild Bean
of Mauritania, which Pliny mentions L. 18. C. 12.
he told him that it continues there fiill in great Plenty,
and that with the wholegreen Plant bruifed with Rock
Salt in Water, aWafhis made there, which furpri-
zingly takes off and heals all Manner of Scabs in
Flor fes, and that with it the very fineft Horfes there
are preferved in the mof? perfect Cleanne/s. The
WWant of it bere I doubt not may be very nearly fup-
plied by our Horfe Bean, as I have procured a Trial to
be made by a young Groom with our common Bean and
the Salt, and he reported that it anfwered much beyond
his Expedtation : He afterwards made a kind of Salve
with the Magma, which had alfa g very goed Effed. ,
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Effedts -of any Vinous Liquors. The Scene lafts
the whole Night; at length, by the exceffive Per-
dpiration, a violent Hunger fucceeds. Such as are
habituated to this Praétice, find it very difficult to
leave it off, and many perifh by it: Mr. Pel/ow him-
felf made Ufe of it, but feeing its fatal Effe@ts on o-
thers, and finding it began to operate detrimentally
on himfelf, he had Refolution to defift. It is alfo
called the peor Man’s Cloak tho’ frequently ufed by
the Rich ; and it is faid one of their Emperors made
himfelf quite ftupid by the Ufe of it. ae
Tey are much addicted in moft Parts of Bar-
‘bary to Divination, or the foretelling of Things to
‘come, which they call Adahomet’s Revelations, in —
‘which they have been confirmed by a moft remark-
able Accomplifhment of a Prediction uttered by a
Black Eunuch on the following Occafion : 2
Tue Emperor Charles the 5th having determined
to chaftife the lgerines for their Depredations fet
fail with a Fleet of one hundred Ships and twenty
Gallies, on board of which were thirty thoufand
chofen Troops, and an immenfe Quantity of Mo-
ney. Great Numbers of the young Nobility and
‘Gentry voluntarily attended him at their own Ex-
pence, upon the only Motives of Glory and Religion.
‘Several Ladies alfo accompanied his Court,-befides
many of the Wives and Daughters of the Officers
‘and Soldiers, to fettle in Barbary when it fhould be -
Gonguered, a |
rere A fair |
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‘A fait Wind foon brought this formidable Fleet
before digiers, every Ship. carrying the Banner of
Spaia on her Stern, and another at her Head, in
which was a Crucifix as their Pilot.
Ar that Time the City of A/gzers -was only fur-
rounded with a fingle Wall, without any Outworks,
and the whole Garnfon confifted of but eight: hun-
dred Yurki/h Soldiers, and fix thoufand Afoors, un-
difciplined and deftitute of Fire-Arms, the reft of
the Turks being fcattered up and down the Country
in collecting the Tribute from the Afoors and Ara-
bians. The Sight of the Fleet ftruck the Inhabitants
with a general Confternation. The Divan was im-~-
mediately affembled to confult on the beft Meafures
for Defence ; and it was refolved not to expofe the
‘Troops out of the Town in obftructing the Enemy’s:
landing, but to ufe their utmoft Efforts till the De-
tachments which were abroad fhould return; Ex-
preffes being fent for that Purpofe, that the Increafe
of their Numbers might at leaft procure them amore
pevoureble Seaptenlasion
The Spanifb Fleet came to an Anchor off Cape
Matifux, which lies about twoLeagues to the Eaft-
ward. of Algiers. “The Army being landed without
any Oppofition,. the Emperor took Poft upon an
Eminence which commanded the Place, where the
Standard of Chrif? was difplayed, with the Sound of
"frumpets and Kettle-Drums. T he Troops worked
pene and Day with indefatigable Alactity, and fooa
) Le 2 erected
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ereCted a Fort with Batteries, which to this Day re-
seni the Name of the Emperor’s Fort.
THE Camp was formed under the Cover of the
Fort’s Artillery, Upon the Eminence was a Spring
awhich fupplied the whole Town iwith Water. The
Spaniards, by turning its Courfe, reduced the Inha-
bitants to make ufe of putrified Water. Charles V.
fummoned the Pacha to furrender at Difcretion, up-
on Pain of the whole Garrifon and Inhabitants being
‘cut to Pieces, if the City was taken by Storm. A/fan
anfwered, that he was thoroughly fenfible of his Ina-
ibility to withitand fo fermidable an Enemy, but de-
fired:a few Days Sufpenfion to deliberate with his
*Council. |
THEY wereon the Point of offering a Capitula~
tion, when'an Exprefs from the Genera], who com-
‘manded the Troops that were fcouring the Country,
arrived, bringing Information, that the Forces of the
WW alten Government were on full March towards
Alsiers. Upon this the Divan determined to defend
the City to the utmoft,
Caarres V. having received no Anfwer, and
iobferving that the Difpofition of the’Country would
‘not allow bim to block up the Town both by Sea
and ‘Land; and-alfo being unwilling to feparate his
mee refolved sap an Affault, |
i ’
bemgas r Tat
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_ Tr Statiom of his Fleet was convenient for theit
Re-embarkation, in cafe of Neceflity, And to be
before-hand with the. Troops which were expedted
from the Country, he kept firing continually on the
Place, which from its weak Defence, he concluded
to be hisown, and accordingly being reduc’d to the
daft Extremity, the City was on the Point of fur-
rendering, when a black Eunuch, whom the Peo.
ple highly reverensed asa Prophet, but wasas much
defpifed by the Great Men, went to demand Au-
dience of the Divan. The Commonality attended
him to the Court of the Palace where the Divan
was aflembled. After along Preamble in Praife of
God andhis Prophet, he addrefled himfelf im thefe
Terms.
“* Lorn Affan, Tamithe poor Jfruf, the Slave of
Slaves, the moft abje@ of all the Muflelmen; def
pifed and perfecuted: by the great Mem and the Adora-
bouts, who have reprefented me as a Madman to your
Predeceffor, and:to yourfelf. They have not only
rejected my Admonitions, but have all joined in
treating mein the moft ignominious manner. I was
the Sportand Ridicule of their very Children and
Slaves. “The Cady, whoisthe Judge of the Law,
has often made me undergo the Infamy of a public
Punifhment. And whence all thefe Outrages ? Be-
caufe'the Almighty God, whofe Nature and Ways
are unfearchable, has fometimes given me an. Infight ©
into Futurity. And I have declared Things which
were to come to pafs, though thofe, whom they
moft concern’d, thought ime beneath their Regard. I
have remained filent towards my Defpifers, but have
informed fome poor People, who have relieved me
‘ 3 in
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in my Diftrefs, of Matters greatly to their Benefity
But at prefent, O 4/ffan, Ruler of this City, the pub
lick Danger forces me to fpeak.”? A/Jan, whom the
Diftrefs of the City had now a little humanized, and
in Compliance with the Clamours of the People, who
expected great Things from théir Prophet, bid him
fpeak on, and accordingly he thus continued. ** Here
is a powerful Fleet of Infidels, whofe Ships are crowd-
ed with armed Men, and came fo fuddenly upon us,
as if ithad rifen out of the Sea. We are deftitute
of every Means of Defence. And our only Hope
is placed on an equitable Capitulationy tf Equity can
be found among Chrifians, But God alone, who
laughs at the Miachinations. of Men, has other
“Thoughts. fie will refcue his People from the Hands
_ of Idolaters, in fpite of all the Gods of the Chri/ians
be they never fo many. Lond fan, and you h®&
“Minifters, and great Men. of the Kingdom, and alfo
you, who are Perfons learned in the Law, I call upon
you, take Courage. Rely for once upon the def-
‘pifed and abject Louf, and be aflured, that before
this Moon is over, our God wil! difplay his Glory
in the Confufion of the Chrifians.. Their Ships
and Army will perifh in our Sight. Our City fhall
be victorious and free. Their Arms and Equipage
will fall to us ; and as they have already laboured in
erecting Forts for our future Defence againft them-
{elves, ‘fo many of them fhall continue to be our
Slaves, few of thefe blind and hardened People being
appointed to return into their Country. Glory be ta
the one Almighty, merciful, and incomprehenfible
God.’? His Speech was fecanded with the Shouts of
the whole Multitude, and brought the Divan toa
Refolution to hold out, if pigsty to the vane of the
Moon, | |
Hise
f ews j
_ Hisrory informs us that the Eunuch’s «Predic-
tion met with a full Accomplifhment, for on the 28th
of O&ober following, a moft dreadful Storm of Wind,
Rain and Hail, arole from the Northward, accom-
panied with an Earthquake. And the next Night
ninety Ships and Gallies were loft, with their Crews.
and Military Stores. “The Camp, which was in the
Plain under the Fort, was drowned by the Inunda-
tions from the Hills.) The Deftru€tion was fo great,
that at Break of Day, the Emperor found there was
no other Refource than to endeavour to fave hime.
felf, with the Remainder of his Army, the Storm.
being abated. Accordingly he left every thing be-
hind him, and marched his Troops in great Diforder
to Cape Matifux. Affan who obferved their Motions,,
allowed them to reach the Shore, but in the midft of,
‘their Fear and Hurry to re-imbark, he furioufly fale
died out upon them with the Garrifon, and all the.
Inhabitants of 4/giers ; who befides the great Num-
bers of the Slain, brought away Multitudes of
Slaves. The Country Troops came up. after the
Danger was over, and joined in the Solemnity of a
general Thank/giving to God for this wonderful, De-
liverance,
Tue Prophet J/ouf was not only publickly de-
clared the Deliverer of Algiers, but alfo received a
Jarge Gratuity, together with the Liberty of exer-
_cifing his Talent,
THERE are Adcors who have no immoveable Pof-
feffions, wandering about in Families, but yet are fo
numerous as to form whole Nations or Tribes like,,
ZL 4 the
L aye 9
the Arabians. Sometimes they are diftinguifhed by
the Name of the Country which they inhabit, and
fometimes by that of the Chiefs.or Founders of their
Families.
Eacu of thefe Nations form an itinerant Village
or Camp, which they call Adouar. Every Family
lives in its particular Tent, andthe 4devar is under
the Government of the Cheque or Chief, affifted by
éthers in the form of an Ariftecracy, who with the
utmoft Impartiality and Tendernefs confult the Inte-
rett. of the whole Community, ‘This Principal or
Cheque is ufually of a Family fuppofed to be def-
cended from: their ancient Sovereigns. “Thefe Wan--
derers farm Lands of the Inhabitants of the Towns,
to fow and cultivate them, paying their Rent with
the Produce, fuch as Fruits, Corn, Wax, ce. and -
_felling the Remainder about the ‘neighbouring Towns,
as: Opportunity cffers. They are very fkilful in chu-
fing the moft advantageous Sot's for every Seafon,
and very careful to avoid the Turkifh Troops, the’
Violence of the one little fuiting with. the Simplicity
of the other. Every /douar pays to the Dey of A
giers a Vax according to the Number of its Inhabi-
tants, and the Country of their Habitations, “The
Cheque anfwers for all, and the whole eer is €n=
gaged for every Inidivideiad:
Tue Tents of the Adouar are of black and white —
Sheep-fkins, but though different in Colour. they
are all equally naity and loathfome. The Tent of
the Cheque is higher than the rcft, and placed in
the Centre of the Camp. Thus the Avcors live ima
very
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very wretched Slovenlinefs. In fome Tents: there
are two or three Branches of the fame Family, that
is to fay, Father Mother and Children, who are
always very numerous, and Daughters-in-law till
they have Children, when the Hufband mutt provide
a Tent and Utenfils, which are not very coftly, for
his Family. This is performed during the Woman's
Pregnancy. A portable Mill confifting of two Stoness
to grind their Corn, and a Bafket, fets them up.
They knead their Meal with Water, without Lea-
ven, inan Earthen Pan, which they make into fat
Cakes, and bake them under the Embers. “They
have a few other earthen Pans either to boil Rice or
wet their Cakes with Milk. Water, is their only
Drink. Oyl and Vinegar, being very fearce, is
their moft dainty Treat, in which they fop their
Cakes. Ifat any Time they eat Meat, itis at their
extraordinary Feftivals, becaufe it will yield them
Money. The fame Tent is crowded with Horfes,
Affes, Cows, Goats, Fowls, Dogs and Cats 3 of all
which Creatures they take more Care than of them-
felves, as being all their Riches) “Phe Dogs are of
ufe in keeping off the Foxes, and giving Notice of
the Appearance of any Liorf, and the Cats are Se-
curity againft Rats, and even Snakes, as ftrange.
as this may feem, both which abound in fome
Places, :
Tut Men wrap themfelves up from their Shoul-
ders to their Feet, in a Haik, which is a Pitce of ve-
ry coarfe white Cloth, of betwixt four and. five Ells,
and this is all their Garment. Others have it not fo
lone,
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and twift about their Head a Piece of the fame Cloth
or fome other Rag.
THe Cheque is diftinguifhed by his Garb, which
is a Shirt and. a Cloak all of a Piece, with only one
Seam, which reaches to the Calf of his Leg, and on
his Head he wears a Cowl. Some of the more
wealthy Adoors have alfo fuch a Cloak, of which
they are fo choice that it generally lafts their Life ;
for whenever they happen to be caught inthe Rainy
they very carefully fold it up and lay it upon a Stone,
fitting patiently upon it, quite naked, till the Rata is
over, and their Skin dry enough to put on their
Cloak, without damaging fuch a precious Gar-
ment.
- Tue Drefs of the Women confifts only of a Piece
of Wollen Stuff which reaches from their Shoulders:
to their Knees: They braid their Hair, and even
here are fond of Ornaments, though they are only
Teeth of Fithes, Coral, and Bugles. ‘Their Brace~
lets for the Arms and Legs are of Wood or Horn.
Amidft their Savagenefs they are not free from that
Vanity which-appears in politer Nations ; for in ors
der to render them more beautiful, they are marked
in their Infancy with black Spots on their Checks,
Forehead, Arms, Fingers Ends and Thighs ;
which is dane by being firft pricked with a Needle,
and then rubbed over with the Powder of a kind of
black Flint.
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Turre Huts are fupported by two large Poftss
and fhaped fomething like a Pavillion. ‘The Door ts
made with Boughs of Trees. In the Middle is a
little Square, which feparates the Apartment of the
Moors froma that of the Beafts.. ‘They lie upon the
Ground on a Matt of Palm Leaves, which allo ferves
them for a Table.
. Tue Men perform all the Hufbandry Work, and
go about to the Towns to fell their Corn and other
Commodities. They have Bee Hives without Num-
ber, Honey and Wax being their moft profitable
Commerce, The Care of the Cattle belongs to the
Women and Children; they alfo provide Food for
the Family, cut Fuel, fetch Water, and, when their
Domeftick. Affairs allow them, tend. their Silk-
Worms. ‘Their Children are never cloathed, but
remain quite naked till they are about eight Years
old, when they have a few Rags beftowed upon
them, and thefe more for Ornament than Decency.
All their Bedding confifts of Straw, Hay, or Leaves 5
and it is nothing extraordinary to fee them run at fix
Months old. While they fuck, their Mothers carry
them in a Bag, and often two at a Time at their,
Back, when they go to fetch Wood er Water, @i-
ving them the Breaft. over their Shoulder. . They
are all very fwarthy, ftrong, robuft, and inured
to the Weather, ‘Their Weapons are a Zagayes
or fhort Lance, which they always carry with thems.
and a broad Cutlafs hanging from their Arm.. They.
are very dexterous in the Management of thefe
Weapons, but are peculiarly excellent in Horfeman-
fhip ; not only in the Management of that Creature
and their graceful Pofture, but at full Speed, will.
eafily
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eafily, with their Lance, take up any Thing from
the Ground.
Iw their Vifits the. Salute is given on the Mouth,
except to the Cheaue or the Morabouts; whofe
Hands they kifs with the greateft Marks of Refped.
Their Converfation generally turns upon the Fecun-
dity of their Wives, Daughters, Mares, Cows and
Poultry. Amidft all thefe’ Inconveniences they are
haughty, accounting themfelves happy in-not being
confined within Towns, looking upon the Inhabi-
tants of them as tame Slaves, and always at the Mer-
cy of the Turés, whom they deteit.
Ul
Upow any Infult from a Turki Aga, they im-
mediately return it with an open War. But the
Town Aéoors, for fear of wanting neceflary Pro-
Viftons, or being’ expofed to their Depredations,:in~
terpofe and negociate a fpeedy Peace. a
Werewn a young Man: is difpofed to marry any:
particular Girl, he makes an Overture to the Father,
who, if he is inclined to the Match, receives him
with great Civility, and* then: enlarges. upon the ex-
traordinary Merit of his Daughter, the Induftry and:
Vruitfulnefs of her Mother, which prefage the like’
good Qualities in her. After a firny Promife, he re-
quires of the Suitor a Number of Oxen, Cows,
and other Beafts, as a Gratyity for fuch a deferving
Bride. When the Preliminaries are fettled, the
young Man brings all his Plocks: and other Commo-
dities. before his Father-in-Law’s Tent, who there-
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upon communicates the intended ‘Marriage to his
Daughter ; and fhe, without Reluctancy to her Fa-
ther’s Pleafure, prepares herfelf chearfully to receive
her Spoufe. Her Friends are invited to the Hutt,
and when the Bridegroom is ‘coming in, he is afked
this Queftion, /Vbat does the Bride cof you? To
which the cufomary An{wer is, 4 2‘/e and a virtue
ous Woman ts above any Price. After mutual Com-
pliments between the new Couple, they ftay in the
‘Tent till all the young Women of the Adouar are
come to vilit them, Then the Bride is fet upona
Horfe of her.Hufband’s, and led to his Tent amidft
the Songs and Acclamations of her Acquaintance.
At her Arrival, the Parents or-neareft Relations of
the Bridegroom. offer her a Mixture of Milk and
Honey, with a f{mall. Piece of the Tent.init ; and
while fhe is drinking, all her Acquaintance join in
finging an Epithalamium, concluding with calling
upon GOD to blefsthem with Children, and increafe
their Flocks.; and.that their Tent .may ‘be always
full of Milk... After this Ceremony, the Bride
alights atthe Entrance of the’ Tent, and her-Com-
_panions puta Stick into her Hand, which the thrufts
as far into the Ground as poffible, faying, That as
that Stick cannot be removed _from thence but by Force,
fo nothing but. Force fhall ever make her quit her Huf-
band. Before fhe is admitted to come within the
Tent, the Flock is delivered up to her, and fhe en-
fers upon her Office of driving it.to.Pafture, to give
cher to underftand, that her Labour is required for
the Welfare of ther Family. When fhe has per-
formed thefe Ceremonies, which are all -indifpenfible,
_the Bride and her Acquaintance begin the nuptial
Rejoicing of Singing, Dancing, and Feafting till the
pads Evening
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Evening, when they prefent her to her shelly and
the Com; pany breaks up.
For the firft Month after the Confummation of
the Marriage, the Woman wears a Veil over her
Face, having two Holes for her Eyes ; and is never
{een out of the Tent during this Interval. ’
THe Moors marry their Children furprizinely
young ; their Sons at fourteen or fifteen, aed their
Daughters at ten, and even at eight: And as Barren-
nefs is feldom known here, it is no uncommon Thing
for a Girl to be a Mother before the has attained her
Eleventh Year, and fometimes much earlier.
Every Evening the Chiefs of the Tents meet on
Horfeback, forming a Circle round the Cheque of
the Adeuar, as when.a Major is giving his Orders in
Camp or Garrifon. — In this Affembly all the Affairs
of the Village are difcuffed, and the next Day’s Pro-
ceedings concerted, But upon any fudden Emer-
gency an extraordinary Affembly immediately meets
at any Time in the abovementioned Form.
THe Women are fo far excluded febrf oe
any Share in publick Affairs, that they are kept in/a
total Ignorance ; with which they are fo well fatis-
fied, that fhould a Hufband impart to them any
State Secret he would oo, incur their =
fure.
ALL
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Aut their Feaftings and Ceremonies are managed
with great Frugality, Simplicity and Franknefs.
Ir is an Opinion among the Afcors, that to fa-
crifice a Chriffran : isa Work of great Merit. before
God ; and fome believe they fhall be but in an indif-
ferent Condition in the next World, if they do not
entitle themfelves tothe heavenly l'elicity, by fhedding
the Blood of a Chriffian: However, the Afferters of
this Opinion hold it in a different Senfe. Some, that a
Chri/tian is to be killed ina Battle, Duel, or fair Af-
fault ; others, that he is to be killed at any Rate, and
in any Manner. There isa Relation of this Kind,
trat Halis Pegetiai, an Italian Renegado, General
of the A/gerine Gallies, having brought in a Spanifb
Veffel which had defended herfelf fo bravely that a
great many dead and wounded were taken out of
her; the Afcors; as is ufual, flocked to the Sight,
with Acclamations of the Vidory. An old bigoted
Moor, feeing the Slaughter, threw himfelf at the Ge-
neral’s Feet, with this odd Speech; ** My Lord,
how happy are you in making fuch a Havock among
the Chriffians, and in having “almoft daily Opportue
nities of killing them ! ! You muft needs be extreme-
jy glorified in the Kingdom of GOD, as one of the
belt Servants of our mott holy Proshexs whereas I,
though always a religious Obferver of the Law, ne-
ver, as yet, had the Opportunity of facrificing a
Chriftian to the Almighty GOD. I thall die me {-
tracted if I fail inthis Point ; and fince you have fo
many in your Power, make me happy by deliver-
ing up one to me, that Iimay killhim. ‘* Hal,
who was far from being a rigid Mahometan, immedi-
ately anfwered, witha Smile, your Requeit is granted.
And
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And, pointing-to a lufty young Spaniard, added, ftep
afide Into the Wood, and this Chriffian Dog fhall
be fent to you to compleat your Felicity. The
Mocr returned him Thanks with a great deal of
Joy, and haftened away to hide himfelf'in the
Wood. Hal: ordering a Mufket, a Sabre, anda
Stick to be given the Spaniard, bid him follow the
old Man, who was gone into the Wood, and tell
him, that the General, his Mafter, bad fent ‘him thi-
ther according to his Reqitt ; but that if the AZor
offered any Violence to him, he fhould make him
feel his Stick. The A4Zoor, feeing the young Fellow’
come into the Wood thus armed, ran out another
Way, telling Hal: that the Chriffian came armed, fo
that he could not execute his Defire. “Towhich
Hal replied, Kill: Chriffians who are able to defend
themfelves, as | and my Men do, you old Coward ;
fuch A&tions will be rewarded by GOD, but not to
murder People who are deftitute of Help.
Tuere are three principal Se@s or Orders of
Religious among{t the Adahometans ; Santones, Ca-
valifts, and Sunaquites.
Tuer Santones are under different Rules, Some
wear only Rags; fome run about quite naked, with
fanatical Geftures ; fome, of a more compofed and
rational Order, defpife thefe Extravagancies, only
maintaining, that good Works, Faftings, Aufterities
and Self-denial, refine their Minds tothe Purity of
Angels ; and others maintain, that when they are
arrived at acertain Degree of Perfection, they can
no longer fin, which has given Rife to many detel-
table Practices.
THE
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Tut Cavalifts are very ftrift in their Faftings and
Abftinence, never eating any Animal Food, but en-
tirely confine themfelves to Vegetables. They have
Forms of Prayer for every-Month, every Day, and
every Hour. They talk greatly of heavenly, Vifions,
and Converfations with Angels, by whom they are
inftructed in the fublimeft Secrets, and who refolve
all their Queftions. They conftantly carry fquare
Talifmans with Figures and Chara@ters engraved on
them. This Order boafts of having for its Founder,
the famous Beni an Arabian Doctor.
Tue Sunaquites are mere Mifonthropes. They
bury themfelves in Deferts, remote from all Corre-
fpondence with other Men, and even fly from their
Sight. Thefe alfo live wholly on Vegetables. Their
Tenets, are Fudai/m, Chriftianifin, Mahometifm, and
Paganifin jumbled together. They facrifice Animals,
and are not circumcifed till 30 Years of Age. They
affirm, that all Religions are originally Infpirations of
GOD; that they are the moft perfect of all Man-
kind, and that it is owing to their Prayers and Au-
fterities, that the Anger of GOD does not break
outand deftroy the World.
~ Mosr of the Mabometans carry a Chaplet of Co-
ral, Amber, and Agat Bead, and as they are coun-
fing them with their Fingers, they mention the At-
tributes of God ; but in fuch’a carelefs manner, as
fhews it to be morea Cuftom than-an AQ of Devo-
tlon.. ;
Aa “Some
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SOME poor ignorant Creatures at every Bead fay
only Sta-fer- -ala, or GOD keep me. Others, who.
are not quite fo ignorant, fay at every Bead, Alla Iila
Mehumed rafout Alla, there is no ee befides GOD,
and Mahomet is bis Meflenger.. “Uhe more learned
among them add to this Acknowledgment, a Ca-_
talogue of the Attributes of God, as they count:
their Beads, which runs inthis Manner, ** In the.
Name of the only God, praifed be God the only
God ; inthe Name of the All-powerful God, praifed
be God in his Power; in the Name of the All-good
God, praifed be God in his Goodnefs ; in the Name
of the All-wife God, praifed be God in his Wifdom;
in the Name of the Aijl-merciful God, praifed be Ged
in his Mercy ; in the Name of the eternal God,
praifed be God in his Eternity, Gc.” And conclude
with faying, ‘* Praifed be GOD, the Sovereign of
the World. O Lord, the Judge of Mankind, I adore
thee ; I put my whole Truft in thee ; I confefs, that
thou haft neither begetten, mor art begotten ; Stee
thou art above all isk enc: neither is there any.
Thing equal to thee.” But this is fo cuftomary to,
fome, that they run over the Chaplet whilf they are,
talking of Matters quite foreign to the Subject,
which clearly man:fefts, that it is only an AffeCation
of Pevstion, without any Reality.
Tra Raiden on any particular Occafion makes a
Brefens, or gives Charity to a Turk or Moor, he
onftantly demands it as a Due on the like Occafion.
x hing fhouldbe given them, but conditionally,
and extlufwe of the a ime to come, and then they
have no future Claim. To what a Height they carry
this extravagant ripen will ical by the follow-
ing lafiance : |
In
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Iw the Year 1601, in the Reign of Hagi Chabaw
Dey, a Greek Merchant who refided at Algzerss
ufed almoft every Year to make a Voyage to Tunis
or Zigypt, retailing his Cargo. A Countryman of
his dying, left him his Executor, and, among other
Legacies, a certain Sum for charitable Ufes. One
Day the Merchant pafling by a Adoor, who was fit=
ting in the Street upon a Piece of a Matt, lame and
almoft blind, he afked Charity of the Merchant. He
was the more inclined to give, becaufe of his Induftry
in making Thread Laces, being incapable of other
Work. He dropp’d him his Handful of Afpersy
which -unufual Sight fo tranfported the Beggar, that
he followed the Merchant upon his Crutches, calling
out upon- Heaven to fhower down its Bleffings upon
him. He told all he met with, how exceeding boun-
tiful that Chrifian had been to him for the Love of
GOD ; at which they were fo pleafed, that they alb
joined in his Commendations, faying, That 1s an ex-
cellent Perfon indeed; his Charity extends beyond bis
Seg#. The Beggar did not leave following his Bene
factor, till he difcovered his Houfe, and afterwards.
took Poft in a Place where the Merchant mutt daily
pafs by him. Next Day the Moser begs his Charity,
and the Greek repeated it, which gained him. great
Reputation, and a Crowd of Cuftomers. “The dda»
bemetan Priefts were not wanting to cry up the Re-
ward which GOD had given to this charitable Greet,
who finding the Sweets of a Charity, whieh coft him
nothing, continued his daily. Benevolence til the
Time of his Departure for Aigypt. The Beggar |
fill: kept his Poit ; but miffing his Benefactor, he
made Enquiry afterhim, and had the Misfortune to
hear that he was out of the Kingdom. When his
Clerk pafled by, he us’d-to lift up his Hands, and
; A a2 pray
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pray for his. Mafter’s happy Return which happeried
five or fix Months after. The Beggar was overjoy’d
to fee him, and when the Merchant, in Return for
his Compliments, was going to beitow his Charity
omhim, declined it, faying, Jf was better to pay him
al bis Arrears at.once. “Yhe Gree& told him he did’
not knew what he meant by Arrears. “To whiclt
the other reply’d, That he had: beemabfent near fix
Moons, and confequently that there was about 180
Rials due.————-The Greek did not know whe-
ther the Fellow’s Impudence deferved moft to be
laughed at, or chaftved. But the AfZcor laid his
Complaint before the Dey, and the Greek Merchant
was fent for to make his Defenee. The Jerr al-
ledged that the Merchant had, for the Conti-
nuance of a whole Month, daily given hima Rial 5.
but that this Charity had greatly inereafed his Cuf-
tomers, and beena Fund of Riches. And that as to
himfelf, upon fuch a daily Income, he was very
glad to leave off working, which was very painful
to him, having almoft loft his Sight; that the
Merchant went away without giving him the lealt
Notice that his Penfion was to ceafe ; that he had
{till kept his Poft, praying to God fer his Return ;
befides,. that. relying on: his accuftomed Liberality,
he: had contracted fome Debts for his Support ;
but upon. demanding his Arrears, the Merchent
had laughed at him, and threatened him. The
Greek did not difown.the Truth of the Premi‘es,
but infifted that Alms being a voluntasy A€tion, its
Continuance depended upon the Will ef the Donor,
After a Difcuffion of the Affair in Council, the Mer-
chant was condemned to pay the Beggar a Rial for
every Day fince his Departure to the Day of the De-
eifion, with a Piafter over and above, as a Compen-
; fation
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fation for his Reproaches, But witha! empowering
hint to declare that very Inftant, that it was his In-
tention never'to give him any Alms or Gratuity for
the Time to come. This the Merchant many Times
protefted, adding, that fuch a Sentence would not
foon be forgot.
Tose who are willing to be thought the pureft
Mahometans, cover their. Faces on Fatt Days with
Gauze or fine Linea, that they may not draw in with
their Breath any Effluvia of Meats or Drinks,
_ ANY one conviéted of having abfented himfelf
from the Mofque during eight Days, for the firt OF
fence is rendered ineapable of being a WitnefS in
any Court of Juftice, the fecond fubjects him to a
Pecuniary Mulét, and upon a third ConviGion he js.
burnt.
FRAUDULENT Bankruptsare in Barbary punithed
with Death, without any Mitigation. Upon the fir
Conviction of ufing falfe Weights or Meafures, or
exacting above the rated Price, the Party Offending
is feverely baftinadced, and, on a fecond Faule,
punithed with Death. ye
CHILDREN are taught to read and write at the
fame ‘Time, which is the Cuftom all over the Le-
vant. “Uhe Mafters at firft delineate their Leffons
with a Pencil, and the Scholars trace the fame. with
a Pen, being inftrudted at the fame Time im the Pro-.
muinciation, till their Hand is fettled, and gives a true
Proportion to their Letters. ava
IF
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Ir a Moor happens to be detected in ftealing the
feaft Trifle, his Rizht Hand is immediately ftruck off,
and he is led about the Town upon an Afs, with his:
Face towards the Tail, the mutilated Hand hanging
at bis Neck, whilft a Adzerifh Chaoux walks before,.
crying out, Thus Thieves are punifhed f
Tue Afoors muft be allowed to excel the Ex-.
ropeans, in not accounting any natural or accidental
Defeéts of Body in the leaft difgraceful. ‘Fhey are
fo far from being Subjeéts of Derifion among them,
that they are notin the leaft offended, if they are
particularized by their Deformities. He who is.
Jame, crooked-backed, has loft an Eye, or a Hand,
voluntarily annexes his Defect to his Name, in order
to diftinguifh fimfelf from his Relations, or others.
of the fame Name.
THE Irregularities of Wives here reflect
no Difgrace upon their Hufbands, who quictly
difmifs them without the Charge and Ridicule of a
Procels.
Tr is likewife to the Honour of the Weftern
Moers, that they continue to carry on a Trade with
fome barbarous Nations bordering on the River WVi-
ger, without feeing the Perfons they trade with, and
without having once broke through that original
Charter of Commerce, which from Time imme-
morial has been. fettled between them. “Fhe Me-
thod is this: Atacertain Time of the Year a nu-
merous Caravan fets. out on this Journey, carrying |
along with them Strings of Coral and Glafs Beads,
Bracelets of Horn, Knives, Sciffars, and fuch like
Trinkets. When they arrive at-the Place appointed,
they ©
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they find. in the Evening, feveral Heaps of Gold-
Duff, lying at a fmall Diftance from each other,
-agaimft which the Moors place fo many Trinkets as
they judge will be taken for the Value. If the Nea
gritians, the next Morning, approve of the Bargain,
they take away the Trinkets and leave the Gold, or
elfe make fome Deduction from the Heaps ; and
thus they tranfaa@ their Bufinefs without the leaft In-
itance of Difhonetty or Perfidioufnef
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apo: BB os BA
OF
Mr.Pellow's E/cape foGibraltar,
pee he Nhs ep
Return to ENGLAND.
O W, after my fo long and grievous Captivi-
| A ty, cruel Hardfhips, wonderful and miraculous.
| Prefervations in the Wars of the Infidels, &c.
Tam, you fee,.again fully bent on Efcape ;:in which,
as all was then in the utmoft Confufion, and I was fo:
very well acquainted with the Country, I flattered
myfelf with a pleafing Profpec of Succefs ;. tho’ you
will find my Travels to be attended with many grie-
vous Troubles, and hazardous Incidents ; and which,
could I have forefeen, would no Doubt in a great
Meafure have fruftrated my Defigns : However, as.
thefe Affiftions happened to. me unlooked for, I no
doubt bore them witha braver and more {ftedfaft Re-
folution.
Now
[; 289 ]
Now am I foon about to encounter with this fo
hazardous and painful Undertaking; and at the End
of the eighth Day, after my Return to Mfeguinez
from purfuing Adley Abdallah the fecond Time into:
the Mountains, I fet out thence about Midnight with
myfelf only for Sallee; where in three Days, and
the latter Part of that Night, I fafely arrived, and
notwithftanding I made alldiligent Enquiry after a
Ship, yet could I not there to my Mind find any for
my Purpofe in three Days, and therefore [was re-
folved to pufh my Way for Santa Cruz fo well asl
could ; and the next Day, at my going out of the
‘Town, I was furprized by fome Soldiers, who laid
hold on me, and carried me before AZuley Mataddy,
the Governor, and Brother to the then Emperor, who
afked them whol was, and for what Reafon brought
before him: ‘To which he was anfwered that they
could not tell: No / faid he, are you not then-very
pretty Fellows to fiop a Man for you not what ?
-afking me who I was, and whither 1 was going:
I told him I was one of his Brother’s Soldiers,
and that as I very lately returned to Mfequinex from
following Muley Abdallah a fecond Time into the
Mountains, and correcting the Mountaineers ga-
‘thered there in his Favour, I was by his Brother’s’
Permiffion come thither to vifit my old Acquain-
‘tance, and that I was then again going back to A/e-
guines ; on which he gave the Soldiers Orders to’
‘fet meat Liberty, yet did they thus treat mea fecond
cand a third Time, at my going out of the Town,
{till carrying me before him, telling him at laft that I
‘was a Chriffian, and that I was about to make: my |
.Efcape to Chriflian Land: To Chriftian Land ! faid
‘he, ftaring me in the Face. Sin (faid I) as to that
they may fay as ibey pleafe ; however, befare your Ete
B b cellency
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cellency gives any Credit to it, I humbly defire you will
afk them their Reafons for Jufpecting me; and they
being able to give none, he told them that they were. —
a Pack of infolent Fellows, that they fhould let me
go, and if to Chriffian Land, what was that to them.
Now am [ again at Liberty; and, asa Blind,
again on my Road towards Adequinez; but out.
of which I foon turned towards Zedlab, wherein I
had not travelled very far, before I fell in Company
with one of their noted Conjurers, having with him
about four hundred of the poor credulous Inhabi-
tants, going alfo that Way ; but his Conjurations
did not find out my Intentions, as to whither I was
travelling, no more than that himfelf and Followers
fhould be that Evening by a greater Party plundered
and ftripped, as indeed they were, together with
myfelf, to our Skins ; which, though a grievous
Misfortune, I was with Chri/fian Patience obliged to
bear, and to travel on in this Conditicn full three
Days in very cold Weather, before I could get any
‘Thing even to cover my Nakednefs, and thenI was.
fo happy to get, through yery great Chance, a Piece
of old Mattin ; and afterwards, in that Condition —
fuffering extream Cold and Hunger, it was eight Days
before I reached Ted/ahb, though there I did not en-
ter, but directly crofled the River running at the
Foot of the high Mountain Summough, and where |
moit opportunely mettwo Spaniards ftraggling the
Country, by Way of deceiving the credulous Inha-
bitants with their Quack Medicines ; however, be
that as it will, it was for them good enough, and the.
fame Spaniards were to me very kind and true
Friends in Necefity, giving me a Piece of an old
Blanket, —
es
Blanket, filling my Belly with fuch as they had, |
giving me friendly Advice, fix Blankeels, feveral of -
their Medicines, and an old Launcet and burning ©
Tron, to fet up for myfelf ; and which indeed I, the
better to conceal my Intentions in my Travels thro’
the Country, dire€tly putin Practice. And now am
JT atking every one I meet, if they had any Wo:k
for the Doctor ; and the Day after my parting from
my Benefactors, I happened to fee a Woman ftand-
ing at the Entrance of a Tent, of whom (after gi-
ving her the Country Salute) I afk’d if the had any
Occafion or Bufinefs for the Do&tor: Yes, faid fhe,
I have, and more I doubt than you are able to performs
calling toher Daughter to help her Father forth ta |
the Light ; and which, whilft the Girl was about,
the good Wife afk’d me what I did with thofe
Things in my Hand ; and where, indeed, as I had no
Pocket, I was obliged to carry them: Do with them,
faid I, (looking her full in the Face) the one is for
detting Blood, and the other ufed in many Diftempers
Sor burning, they being in my Way of Bufinefs two of
the moft neceffary Inftruments : O, then, faid fhe, I
Suppofe you are an experienc’d Doétor, Yes, {aid I, in-
fread of a better. Alas ! faid fhe, Lwifh with all my
Heart you may cure my Hufband, for he is fo very
Growfy, that I fear he wiil die in bis Sleep : By this
“Time his Daughter had brought him forth to the
Door of the Tent. Now Doéfor, faid the Wife, zs
he not a fad Objet ? Indeed {aid 1) he is, and I
could wifh with all my Heart I had far all our Sakes
feen him fooner, for that his Diftemper was then gone
very far, and his Condition really very dangercus ;
bowever, I would try what I could do on him, there be-
ing but two Ways to fave his Life, and if one of them.
(which was Bleeding) would not do, I muff be alfo
i: Bba | obliged
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obliged to practice the other, which was Rurning : So
I went dire&tly to Work in binding up his Arm,
and to that Degree ty’d it with a ftrong Hempen
Cord, that he. complained of it very much, And
now am I ata Stand and a very great Lofs (had the
Inftrument been never fo well in Order) how to per-
form, and in the Condition it then was, much more
fo, for it was really very blunt, and extreamly rufty ;
however, as I found myfelf obliged to make the beft..
Ufe I could of a bad Market, I in or near the Vein
gave him a very hearty Prick, afking him if he felt it:
Feel it ! faid he, yes, yes : Weil, faid 1, beft. of all ; ,
and little or no Blood appearing, _I twice repeated it, ©
and though I prick’d. him much deeper than at firft,,
yet could not I for my Life (though I made him
twift like an Eel) make him bleed; and then I told
him that I feared I fhould alfo. be obliged to burn
him: * Burnme! faid he ina very great Surprize :
Yes, faid 1, burn ysu: No, I hope not, faid he: O, .
but (faid 1) £ do not mean by putting you.inte the Fire,
but with a pretty little Iron Lhave for that Purpofe,
an the Head: And do you think, Doétorg that. will do —
me any Good? That (faid 1) I cannot tell; but if you
will be conformable to my Rules, either that will do you
Good, or nothing ; O then, good Doctor, burn mes
burn me ; and which, indeed, after heating my Iron
red-hot, I did in three feveral, Places. very fmartly, .
till I made him (as well he might) to twift and cr
out after a moft piteous Manner. Well faid I, you
are, I think, confidering your fo dangerous Condition,
. a Q@ very.
* This isthe ufual Praétice of the Moorifh Doce.
tors, viz. cauterizing or burning the Part affected.»
with a bot fron: They feldom gtve any Thing inwardly. ©
, Preo3 4] |
a very faint-hearted Soldier, defiring him to look, if
he could, at my Forehead, and to tell ‘me if he did
- not think it to beemuch more burnt than I had burnt
him: Yes, faid he, and it was, no Doubt, very patn-
ful to you = Yes, faid 1, that it was, and yet my Doc-
tor did not think fo, nor that be had burnt me enough 5
but come, faid 1, have a good Heart, take this fmall
Paper of Powders about Ten Clock at Night, and if
- you cannot fleep, it will be as I defire; for as your Dix
ftemper is what we call a Lethargie, Sleep will in-
ceffantly flealon you 3 and therefore, when you find
: yourfelf pretty much inclined to it, and your Wounds
are not painful enough to keep you waking, order the
| good WPoman to rub them up afrefo with her Fingerss
and never mind the Pain; telling him further, Y/at
‘as Iwas obliged to go that Night to a Patient about a
League off, I could for that Time flay with him no
longer, and that by the Time I came back, I did not
doubt but to hear of bis being much eafier ; and after
T had filled my Belly with Cufcafloe, and for my
Doétorfhip received fix Blankeels, as an Earne({t
Penny, and a Cake of white Bread, I left them to
their Prophet A/ahomet, and.their Country Doétors ;
and though J had the good Fortune to go no more
back to enquire into the Succe(s of the Operations,
yet had Tan Account of it by one of his Sons foon
after, to my very great Surprize, as you will by and
by hear. |
Now am I again on the Tramp 3 and that Even-
ing, inftead of one League, I travelled five, afcending
up to the Top of a high Mount called /tatted,
where I found feveral inhabited Tents, but no Ad-
mittance ; however, I with much ado got out of
Bb 3 one
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one of them a pretty large Billet of Fire ; and with
which, after I had gathered good Store of dry Wood,
-and laid a good Parcel of it ina Heap, I kindled a
Fire, and before the Darknefs came on, I had ga-
thered Wood enough, as I thought, to continue my
Fire all Night ; which no fooner approached, than I
plainly heard a ‘great many Jackalls coming yelping
towards me, and ftill drawing nearer and nearer,
which gave me fufficient Reafon to fuppofe I fhould
be foon furrounded by far more dangerous Compa-
uions, as indeed I foon was by Lyons, Tygers, Leo=
pards, Panthers, &c. in Abundance, making fucha
hideous and frightful Noife, as was enough to terrify
a more couragious Man than myfelf; and though
I cannot fay I was altogether void of Fear, yet was
J thoroughly perfuaded with myfelf, that fo long. as
my Fire continued, they would not offer to approach
me fo near as todo me any Harm, I almoft continu-
ally holding a Fire-Brand: well lighted at one End in-
my Hand, twirling it round my Head, and fome-
times throwing it among{t them ; and, at the Ap-
-proach of Day-Light, (they without taking their
Leave) like unmannerly Guefts left me, though I
muft confefs I was much better pleafed with their
Abfence than with their Company. I then began to
fet forward on my Journey ; and though I was very
hungry, and had moft of my Cake ftill remaining,
yet would not I venture to break my Faft till I was
got clear out of this Mountain , and well was it for
me, in all Likelihood, that Idid not, for in a very.
fhort Time, as I (inftead of eating) was with a
watchful Eye looking fharp round me, I fawa large
Tyger lying on his Belly, with his Legs under him in
a proper Potture for leaping, within twenty Feet of
the little Path I was walking in; when I inftantly
taking
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taking my Eyes off him, paffed nimbly by, fo that I
received from him no further Hurt than the Fright ;
and in Jefs than half an Hour after, I got up within
thirty Yards of the largeft Lyon I had ever feen be-
fore, fitting on his Breech juft in my Road, (though
this did not, I declare, in Comparifon with the ‘T’y-
ger, at all terrify me) walking up towards him with
a fierce Look hollowing at him, and threatening
him all I could ; at which he got him uponhis Legs,
feverely lafhing his Loins with his Tail, and roaring
after a moft terrible Manner, went out of my Sight
in a very little Time, though I again met him. a fe-
cond and a third Time, and then he, after like Ufage,
left me entirely ; and in an Hour after I got to the
Foot of the Mountain on the other Side, where lived
Alcayde /Voldlattabbee, one of Muley Abdallah’s old
Soldiers, and my very particular Friend, whither [
went, and was by him moft kindly received ; and on
_shis afking me what Bufinefs had called me that Way,
I told him that I was in Purfuit of our diftrefled
Matter ; and which, as the Blucks had moft feverely
ufed me on his Account, I could do no fooner 3.
therefore I hoped that it was not then too late for me
to be by him inftruéted how to proceed further :
That (faid he)[ cannot very well tell, yet did I very
lately hear a Rumour as if he fhould be gone to Santa
Cruz: That (faid 1) 1 heard, and thither was re-
Solved to follow, but firft to call onyouinmy Way, in
order to its further Confirmation. Well, my old
Friend, faid he, but what Need have you to be in fa
much hurry? Stay with me firft three or four Days
to refrefh yourfelf 5 during which we may chance to
hear further of bim ; and this Offer, indeed, I was
very glad of, as wellas that my Story was fo well
taken; and on his afking me by what Way I got
at Bb 4 thither,
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‘thither, I-told him, together with all the Dificul-
ties, Hardfhips and TranfaQions I had gone through,
as how I was plundered and ftripped, how I was o-
blig’d to practice by Way of Doctor, how I had met
with a fick, or rather indeed a dead Man, for that all
the Doétors in the World could not cure him.; how-
sever, With what I did for him he was fo well pleafed,
that he ordered his Wife to give mefix Blankeels, my
Belly-full of Cufcafloe, and a Cake of white Bread
.to.carry with me ; how I had been all that Night
furrounded by wild Beafts, and how I had met with
in the Morning a Tyger and a Lyon, and what
Means I had made Ufe of to efeape them - And then
FE confented to ftay with him for two or three
Days ; and the third Day, a little before my Depar-
ture, who fhould (tomy very great Surprize) hap-
-pen to come there-to tell the Alcayde that his Father
-was dead, but one of my old Lethargick Patient’s
Sons, Dead ! faid the Alcayde, Pray of what Diffem-
— per ? That, Sir, faid he, [ cannot tell, tho’ one of the
firaggling Doétors toldhim (when I was from Home)
that it was a Letchery 3 and notwithflanding he had.
Six Blankeels, his Belly-full of Cufcafjoe, and a buge
great Cake of white Bread to carry with him for bis
Pains, yet did he letcher him out of his Life. Poor Mant
faid the Alcayde, then our old Friend is agtually dead
at laf? : Yes, Sir, faid he, he 7s, for my Brothers and -
I threw him inte his Grave: Weil my Friend, faid
the Alcayde, that was the lajt good Office you could
do him, and ashe was fo long languifbing under fuch
Lorments, it was by far the beft Place for him. As
to that, faid the young Man, we cannot tell 3 not that
I believe he could by Courfe of Nature have lived much
donger, yet no Doubt the Doctor haften’d his End, for
be cut him and burat him to that Degree, that he never
enjoyed
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enjoyed one Moment’s Eafe after the Operation 3 and
could I lighton him, Iwould foon fpoil his Doctorfbip.
All this did I with my Ears hear, and with my Eyes
often faw the Alcayde tipping me the Wink, info-
much that I could not beeafy any donger there 5
but foon after finding an Opportunity to take my
Leave, Itook my Way thence for the River Tennet 5
and as I travelled all Night, I got the next Morning
tothe Foot of the Mountain Dimminet, a very plen-
tiful Part of the Country, the Mountains round be-
ing in the feafonable Times of the Year plentifully
ftored with many Sorts of delicious Fruits, and efpe-
cially Grapes in Abundance, yielding great Store of
very excellent Wine. It was, before I could get.
free of thefe Parts, full fixteen Days; during which
I fold a great many of my Medicines, fuch as fmall
Papers of bitters Apples powdered, of which were in
thefe Woods great Plenty, and are a prodigious Pur-
gative; white Dog’s Date, Ellebore, and red Pepper
mixed, by Way of clearing the Brain and Eyes,
.and which made them to weep and fneeze gallantly 5
and with my pretty little Iron I burnt a good Num-
ber, one of them in particular in the Belly fora
Dropfy ; and, to the very great Content of himfelf-
and Wife, I took thereout a very large Quantity of
yellow Water, and received for it a gold Ducat: On
which I (with a° Spaniard I had there procured to
-go with me) hurried thence twelve Leagues to the
River of Teffout: ftill further on towards Morocco ;
and as we travelled all that Night, we got the next
Evening to the River Side in good Seafon, fo as we
had Time enough before Night to catch a Difh of
Fifh for our Suppers: But alas ! How could we catch
any without Tackle? We had neither Hook
nor Line ; however, we were through great Chance
and
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and a good deal of Trouble, foon furnifhed with the
latter, through Means of fome Hairs we got froma
Horfe’s Tail; but now, What muft we do fora
Hook? When it came into my Mind, if I could get
a Needle, it might be foon turned into the like
Shape ; but, as to my own Part, I very well knewI
had none ; however, I afk’d my Comrade, who, to
my very great Satisfaction, happened to have a great
many, and in turning the firft of them (as not very
well underftanding the Temper of the Metal) I
fnapp’d it off in the Middle, as indeed I did a fecond:
. But now, confidering within myfelf, that as they had
been hardened by throwing them red hot into: a fea-
foning Liquid, unlefs I fhould again reduce them by
Fire to their natural Temper, T thould foon break
all the reft; therefore, whilft I was making my Line,
my Cotnrade having gathered fome Wood, | and
kindled a Fire, (as fully intending to take up our —
- Quarters there for that Night) I put two of them —
between two Coals, made them red-hot, and after
they were cold enough to put my Fingers to, I turned
them into what Shape I pleafed, fo as I made two
tolerable good Hooks ; and then again laying them
between the Coals, and making them red hot, I |
threw them into Water, and taking them out again,
to Work I went, and inalittle Time.caught a tole-
rable Dith of Fifh, broiled them on the Coals, and
with fome green Figs (of which there were Abun-
dance there. (we made a very good Supper.
_ Now, perceiving the Night to draw on apace, are —
we bufy at Work in laying on and getting more
Fuel, fo as ina very fhort ‘Time we had raifed a huge’ -
Pires and Fuel enough, by Way of Referve, to. con-
tinue
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continue it for the Night ; when I told my Comrade
that I in a little Time expected more Company, but
fuch, I feared, as he would not by any Means like 5
however, I would not have him to be over afraid,
for that as we had Wood fufficient to continue our
Fire all Night, they would not dare to approach fo
nigh as to do us any Harm, I having very lately fuf-
ficiently try’d the Experiment : Experiment / faid he,
Of what ? Of what, {aid 1, of our Fire preferving
us from the wild Beafts : Lord ! faid he, What, are
any of them in thefe Parts ? Yes, yes, faid 1, and that
you will quickly both hear and fee; and, indeed, in lefs
than half an Hour after, we plainly heard a great
many of the Fore-ranners coming yelping towards
us. Pray, faid he, What are they ? They ({aid 1) are
Fackalls, and the Lyons, Tygers, &c. are not far off,
and will no Doubt, be foon bere 3 as indeed they
were, roaring and growling after a terrible Manner:
Upon which I ordered my Comrade to take a large
Fire-Brand in his Hand, and to keep twirling it
round his Head, and now and then to throw it a-
mongft them : This did he (being not a little terri-
fied) continue to do all that’ Night, our furious
Guefts fometimes approaching fo near us, as we
could plainly diftinguifh them as to their Species, and
many Times fee them engaged with one another ;
infomuch, that had not an old ftately Lyon (to whom.
all the reft feemed to be under Subjection) decided
their Quarrels, there had, no Doubt, been blood
Work amongft them ; but wherever he rasa feredh
they fubmitted to him in feeming Obedience, in-
ftantly giving him Place, and, in fhort, all that Quar-
ter of the Fire to himfelf. As to my Comrade,
notwithftanding his being feized with fo very great
Fear, yet did he feldom or never ceafe to twirl his
Fire-Brand,
{ goo J |
Fire-Brand, unlefs when he was difpofed to throw it
among{t them, and to take up a frefh one out of the
Fire; infomuch, that afterour unwelcome Compa-
nions had at the Approach of Day-light left us, he
all that Day complained of a grievous Pain in his
Shoulders ; though which, he faid, he was excee-
ding well pleafed to.;compound with, for rather than
run the Hazard of fuch another Night, -he fhould be
gladto endure the Lofs of a Leg or an Arm. And now
are we indeed both better pleafed ; for, to be plain, I
did not care for their Company no more than he did.
Now, after recovering ourfelves of our Fright,
we chearfully travelled on, tho’ guilty, I think, ofa
very great Omiffion, and to ourfelves very much
Wanting ; for though we were fo very near the
River, and had nothing for our Breakfaft, yet we did
not ftay to catch: any Fifh, which no Doubt we
might have done in a very little Time; but depend-
ing on our meeting with fomething better on the
Road, we (inftead thereof) were for that Day o-
bliged to faft, and to content ourfelves without any
the leaft Refrefhment ; however, we travelled on
with Courage, and without any thing elfe remark-
able, we got that Night exceeding hungry to Cee-
deachal], dire&ting our Courfe to fome inhabited
Tent, where we at the leaft promifed ourfelves
fome fmall Refrefhment: But alas! to our very
great DiflatisfaQion, we could get none, unlefs than
being admitted to lodge in one of them: and with
which, notwithftanding my Hunger, I thought my-
felf by far better off than I did the Night before; and
tho’ I faw the Dogs eating Cu/fcaffoe before my Face,
yet could not I, notwithftanding I offered to pay for
it,
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it, and my Stomach was in an Uproar, get one Pel=
Jet of it, and which was quite the reverfe of the
Moori/o Manners, of all I had ever feen before ; there»
fore we very early in the Morning) (being bravely
refrefhed by moderate Sleep) fet out towards Morocco,
to feck our Breakfaft, and which being but. fix
Leagues, and, traveiling ata good Pace, we had by
Sun-rifing got.over three of them, when we met a
very well drefs’d genteel Afoor, accouter’d in Martial’
Order, having by his Side a very fine Scymeter, and
in his Belt a Pair of Piftols: He in a haughty Man-
ner demanded who we were, from whence we
came, whither bound, our Bufinefs, &c. I told him’
we came that Morning from Ceedeachall, were going
to Morocco, and that we were by Profeffion Chy-
rurgeons : Chyrurgeons ! faid. he, what do you mean
by that ? That, Sir, {aid 1, is as much as to fay Sur~
geons 3 or, if you pleafe, Doctors : Very well, faid he,
And do you think you can cure my Eyes? Which in-
deed feemed to be very much inflamed: Cure them,
faid I, yes to be fure, tho’ Ireally think them to be very
jar goue, and therefore I hope you won't take it ill,
if we afe your Eanour how much you are willing:
to give us: Give you, faid he, a very handfome Fee,
if you cure me; tf not, nothing, unlefs it be to cut
your Threats: So then, {aid I, 7 find you are for no
Purchafe no Pay, or rather, indeed, what is a great
deal worfe; however, I dare venture it; for, to be
plain, I knew iff could but once get a little of my
Powders into his Eyes, it would be fufiiciently arm-~
ing me againft him and:his Weapons, had they been
never fomany 3 but-to be too eager upon him for the
Operation, 1 thought might not be fo proper,
therefore I left him alone to make the firft Advance;
Well, wells, theny faid he, , fince I mut be dodor'd by
I [by
» : Pigeen 4
you, I defire to fee firft if you have any Money about
you, feeling and peering into our tatter’d Garments, |
and rumaging a little Knapfack, the Spaniards had
tocarry afew Medicines in ; and tho’ I had therein,
at the Bottom of one of my Pots of famousOintment,
a Gold Ducat and feveral Blankeels, yet had he only
his Labcur for his Pains, telling us, That he thought |
our Doétorfhip had been to us, fo far as he could
fee, of but very little Advantage hitherto ; but if it
had been otherwife, and which for our Sakes he fhould
have been glad of, notwithftanding what he had
done to fatisfy his Curiofity, he had no Defign of
taking any Thing from us: Alas! Sir, faid I, you’
cannot, I hope, fuppofe we could be under any fuch Ap-
prebenfions. What ! to be under any Apprehenfion of
that Nature from.a Gentleman of your Prefence! Nog
no, {aid he, I dope not.
Now am I tocontrive how to be up with him 5
however, it foon came into my Noddle, telling my
Comrade in Spani/b (and which I knew the Afgor, |
as having before tried him, did not ‘underftand) that
he fhould be fure to be very obfervant of all I told
him ; and then I told this Knight of the Road, (as
being, no Doubt, one of thofe who make their
Fortunes on the Ruin of others) 'Anglice, a High-
wayman, that we were fent for in all Hafte to vifit
fome Patients at AM/orocco, and thither we were o-
bliged to haften, and therefore I wifh’d him well,
and his Eyes a better Do€tor : 4 better Doétor ! faid
he in a very great Paffion ;.@ better Dodtor ! Pray
what do you mean by that ? Did not you fay you would
cure me? and I expeé? you do, or Iwill foon fpoil your
Doétorfoip : Cure you, Sir, faid 1 3 how can that be,
when
| e gaa |
_auben you will not give me Leave to apply my Medt=
cines 2 You Dog, faid he, I never told you fo, laying
his Hand upon one of his Piftols : Good Sir, faid I, be.
not offended, for Lam ready, when you pleafe, to per-
form the Operation, and to ufe the beft of my Skill :
“But dd you think my Eyes are not paft Cure? Why, Sir,
faid 1, as to that I will engage to make on you'a moft
Sudden Alteration, or 1 will give you Leave to shoot me
with one of your Piftols thro’ the Head : Then (faid he)
you Dog, why don’t you do it, or by God, if you will
not, you foall have bath: Sir, faid 1, with all my
Fieart : Then I opened the Knapfack ; and, after I
had taken out of it a Paper of the Powder of Ele-
bore, and Cod-Pepper mixed, and therewith All’d
two Quills, giving one of them to the Spaniard, I
ordered my Gentleman to fit down on the Ground ;
when I told the Spaniard, that when I had got faft
hold on one of his Eye-lids, he fhould be fure to take
faft hold of the ether, and hold it open, blow in his
Quill of Powder with all his Might, and when we
were both ready, I gave the Word Bhw, which he
readily obferving, and I blowing alfo at the very
Inftant, we to that Degree filled both his Eyes, as
had our Knapfack been full of Gold Ducats, we
Might have given him Leave to peer therein: The
Powders performed to Admiration, he rubbing with
both his Hands, twifting and turning, and from his |
Eyes flowed a little Fountain of Water ; when I afk’d
him how he did: Da, faid he, you Dogs, you've blown
out my Eyes: See now, faid 1, how Aden be abufed for
their good Will: O burn your good Will, faid he :
Very well, Sir, faid 1, be that as it will, Lam thoroughly
refolvued to extend it a little further ; then laying hold
on his Sword and Piftols, after giving him two or.
‘three very hearty Cuts by Way of bleeding, I left
ree him,
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him, and with my Comrade in all poffible Hafte tra-
velled on,.and about Noon got to AZorocco 3 where,
would his prefent Circumftance have permitted himy
I thought he dared not to come after us.
Now am I, after two Months very hazardous and
painful Travel from Adeguinex, fafely arrived at MMo-
yocco ; where, tho’ I had a great many Acquaintance,
yet would I not venture to truft more than one of
them ; and finding my Comrade did not care to en-
counter with any more fuch like Adventures, and he
having alfo there many Friends, we, after his giving
me the Knapfack and Medicines, and after moft
courteoufly bidding each other Farewell, and having’
on both Sides agreed with ourfelves what Friends to’
call upon, feparated ; and then I dire€tly went to my
Friend’s Houfe, and very luckily found him at Home,
and I met witha kind Reception ; and he afking me
what Bufinefs I was come upon, and if I thought it
to be in his Power todo me any Service, defiring I
would not be upon the Referve, for that I was to him
very heartily welcome, and that he would ferve me_
even to the Hazard of his Life, I with a fmall Alte-
ration told him the old Story, as how that fince A/u-
_ dey Abdallah’s fecond driving out, (who, faid I, you
know was very cruel, yet, between you and I, I
think there is altogether as bad come in his Room,
the Blacks being become: fo infolent, that they per-
fuade him even to what they pleafe) I was between:
them both really ina very great Straight ; and theres _
fore I was come thither to confult him how to a&.
6+ Indeed, my Friend, fatdhe, T am as well as you
s¢ in this Affair ata very great Lofs ; however, be-
“¢ tween Friends, I know. not which Barrel of the —
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two is the better Herring ; and therefore, as you
are now got fo far out of the Power of them both.
was your Cafe inine, I would depend on neither of
them no longer, but take Care of myfelf fo well
asI could.” «* Indeed, /aid I, that is a very na-
tural Cafe, and fo would I alfo do, could I tell
how ; for, to be more plain,.I as little eftcem
them as you do, yet I cannot deny but it has been:
inmy Mind to follow Muley Abdallah, and fo 1
told my old Friend, Alcayde Woldiattabbee, in my
Way hither, with whom I ftay’dthree Days.” “* As.
to. that, /aidhe, you did not amifs: But what
faid the Aleayde to it? Why, jaid L, when I had
told him my. Inclination, and afk’d him which
Way he would advife me to proceed, he told me
that a Rumour very lately ran thereabout, that the
Tyrant was aétually gone to Santa Cruiz.” To
which I anfwered him, That I had heard the fame,,
and that. I was thither refolved to. follow him.
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ee
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Very well faid he, and let your Intentions be what
they would, I think you anfwered him very well 3
and once more, my old Friend, I cannot help tel-
‘ling you, That was it my own Cafe, and you
were therein fincere, I would not follow him one
Step further.” ¢* Indeed, faid I, the: Alcayde
did not fo plainly tell meto do it, neither did he,
my Friend, give me any great Encouragement,
though he in a friendly Manner told me, that I
need not to be in fo greata Hurry, for that I
fhould firft flay with him three or four - Days to
refreth mytelf; and which, indeed, I did, and found
myfelf thereby (after the many Misfortuncs I met
with 1a my Journey thither) very much refrefh’d.”
Well, my Friend, faid be, lam very glad the
Alcayde was fo very kind to you, and that you fo
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prudently behaved with him ; for give me Leave
to tell you, the Times are now fo ticklifh, that a
‘Man cannot tell who to truft, and in fome Cafes
it is altogether unfafe for a Man to lay himéelf
** open even to his own Brother 3 therefore I fhall
be no further inquifitive with you ; and be your
Intentions what they will, you are to me very fin-
“< cerely welcome: And now, faid he, I-think it is
*s high Time to afk you how you think your Sto-.
mach may agree with a Dinner.” I told him, as
to that he need not fear our falling out, for thatas I
had not eat any Thing all that Day, nor the Day. be-
fore, it would be to me, next himfelf, the bef
Friend I could meet with, and therefore I did not
care how foon [ was at it ; when he called to his
Wives (as having, though a Spaniard, no lefs than
three) to order up the Cufcafloe, and come and take
Part with us; ‘* for (/aid he) though it is not the
«< Country Cuftom, yet, as this is my Brother, I
<¢ hope. you will fo far oblige me ;”’ which, I affure -
you, was avery extraordinary Favour; and then our
Dinner was by the three good Wives direétly ufher’d
in, and fet in the Middle of the Floor, which we foon
furrounded, and fell to it ; and,-as to my own Part,
I ina very fhort Time made good my Leeward Way,
and made an excellent Dinner indeed ; and after the
Women were gone off, my Friend brought in a Bot-
tle of excellent good Wine, to wafh. it down, defi-
ring me not to fpare it, for that that Bottle-had a
great many Fellows, and therefore he hoped I would
be as merry as he wifhed me. . ** Alas! my Friend;
“¢ faid I, How cana Man be merry under my un-
<* happy Circumftances? However, I will force my
‘* Inclinations to be as merry as I can :’’? And indeed
we pafled the Evening in taking our Glafs, and talk-
: ing
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ing over old Stories, without on either Side mention=
ing any Thing touching my future Intentions ; and.
as I was with my Journey fomewhat weary, we, at
my Requeft, feparated for the Night to our Refi
Very early in the Morning, he came into my Ap-
partrnent, afking me how I had taken my Reft, and
telling me that I had forgot the laft Night to go
to Supper > Thats faid I, as you were fo often pleafed
toafe me, was not your's, but my own Fault. Well,
~faid he, but can you, do you think, eat a Piece of a
Sheep for your Breakfaft 2? Yes, faid 1, with all my
Heart ; on which he brought me inavery little Time
a good Piece of'a Leg broiled on the Coals, and after
_ we had finifhed, he defired I would give him an Ac-
count of my Journey, and how long I had been on it :
Da you mean (faid 1) after a methodical Manner 2 Yes;
faid he, if you don’t think it too tedious for you s
Milas! my Friend, faid 1, I hope you do not think
there can be any Thing in my Power too tedious for ma
to oblige you in: Then I, from Mequinex to my burnt
and fcarified Patient, gave him a very particular Ac-
count ;and when I came to him, I feemed a little to
mince the Matter ; however, as I had promifed him
to tell him the Truth, fo I did, and whenI came to
the torturing Part,’ he afked me how I could be fo
cruel: Cruel, faid 1, ju? fo (were it in my Power) I
would ufe moft of the Moors in Barbary. Ha, ha, faid
he, now do I, without your telling me plainly, fee
through your Intentions ; but goon: Then I told him
what a terrible Fright I was in, on one of his Sons
coming to the Aleayde’s Houfe, whilft I was there,
to tell him his Father was dead, that the Doétor
had kill’d him, and that could he catch him, he
would foon fpoil his Doorthip ; which made him
Jaugh very heartily ; and when I was come to my
3 C.c2 taking
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taking up my Quarters amongft the wild Beafts, he
altogether as heartily mourn’d my Condition ; how-
ever, I foon put him again in good Humour, by my
telling him the Dialogue between me and my Scour-
Road fore-ey’d Patient, and which really pleafed
bim Very much, laughing as though he had been
tickled, {though I told him then, never a Word. of
my duinpine off his Sword and Piftols) telling me
that by the Defcription I gave of him, he muft be
actually the fame who had infefted the Roads fora ’
long Time back, infomuch as very few Travellers.
efcaped him: But (faidhe) did not the Villain cry out ?
Yes, yes, faid 1, fo well as he could , and now, Sir, give
me Leave to afk you what you, thre’ your very great
Clemency, would have done by bim, had it been your
gwn Cafe : Done by him, faid he, with bis own Sword
cut his Throat : Indeed, Sir, faid 1, that is what you
might foon have done, it beeng adtually a very good ones
and the Piftols not at all inferior to it 5 and whith, if
you will not believe me, be your own Eyes the Judges.
taking them from underneath my old Blanket ; at
which he faid, he was very much furprized, for that _
he had not, to his Mind, of along Time feen finer,
and that he thought them to be of confiderable Va-
lue ;. [told him that Iwas very glad-he liked them fo.
well, and that if he was pleafed to accept of any.
Thirg which formerly belonged to a Highway many
they were very heartily at his Service; and as to
their late Matfter’s finding them upon him, he needed
not to be under the leaft Apprchenfion ; with much _
ac’o he took them as his own, tho’ firft indeed he (by
Way .of old Friendfhip) compelled. me to accept of
three Gold Ducats 3 and which, he faid, he was de-
termined to give me, had not he feen the Sword and _
Piftols at all ; and after Dinner, and drinking a heare
tya
L 3ep f ane
ty Bottle, [told him juft as I was going to lye down,
that I would not by any Means have him to take it
ill, for that I. was fully determined with myfelf to
purfue my Journey early in the Morning ; and getting.
up accordingly, I (after a good Breakfaft, and recei.
ving from him three Cakes of Bread; fome Snuff,
and very friendly Advice, telling me he was fully
apprifed of my Intentions, that he fincerely withed
me well tomy own Country, and that God would
be to me therein aiding and afifting taking me in
his Arms, and giving me a very hearty, and I dare fay
fincere Kifs, which I without any further Anfwer as
fincerely returning) departed, and as I travelled at a |
pretty {mart Rate, I got that Forenoon about Ten,
of the Clock to Tamflaught, where I refted me fo.
long as to eat. a few Grapes with fome of my Bread for
my Dinner ; and travelling on, I got about One that
Afterncon to’a Part of the River Waddenfeezxe, where
I fat me down again, and begun to confult my(elf,.
if I fhould go dire€tly on, or flay there fo long as to.
catch a few Fifhes ; for notwithftanding T had fo lately
dined, yet methought I could (as the Grapes had
but whetted my Stomach) find in my Heart to make
another Dinner; therefore I went to Work,. and
eaught a Brace of tolerable Size in a very fhort
Time, andon my feeing fome Moors coming to the
River Side, I hailed one of them. ‘(as being loath to.
be too profufe of my Tinder,) and afked him if he
could help me to aCoalof Fire; and which, whiltt
he was fetching from one of their Tents, I-had
gathered a few dry Sticks and laid themin Order :
and whilit Iwas. cleaning my Fith, he came with
the Fire, and kindled the Wood, and ‘then I laid ny
_ Fith thereon, and made a very hearty Meal, and fome
to {pare to my Attendant: And J being furrounded’
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by this Time with feveral other Jdoors, they were
foon very -inquifitive with me to know the Guts of
my Knapfack: Alas! thinks I, thefe are not I hope
fome of the Under-ftrappers of my late fore-ey’d
Patient; but indeed I was foon givento underftand
the contrary, for on my being afked a fecond Time,
I told them Medicines tor curing the Sick); when
I was afked by one of them, if I could cure
fore Eyes: ‘¢ Sore Eyes, faid f, yes, I think I have
<¢ hitherto cured a great many, anda Gentleman in
¢¢ particular, about three Days ago, of a very great
és Inflammation therein.” ‘* An Inflammation,
6 faid he, Pray what do you mean by that?”
6¢ Why, jad J, that is when the Eyes are attended
«¢ with a hot fealding Pain, and look of a very red
«c Colour :”” Then as fure as Day-light, /aid he, my
«¢ Brother’s are juft fo, and fo are my Sifter’s, faid
a
Cay
<‘ another, and my Wife’s, faid another: But, /aid »
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4
tay
they, do you really think you can cure them ?”’
That ( fazd I) I-cannot fay ; firft let me fee them,
«¢ and then! will tell you more of my Mind, for the
«¢ Gentleman the other Day was alfovery inquifitive,
‘¢ and afk’d me much the fame Queftions ; and not-
°¢ withftanding his Eyes were really very much in-
“‘ flamed, yet did I make on him fo great an Alte-
“¢ ration, asto leave him quite another Man in a
na A AN
<¢ very little Time.’’ ** Will youthen, Do@or, be -
“<< pleafed to go with us to yonder Tents, /aid they :
‘* Yes, faid I, if-you pleafe, with all my’ Heart :”’,
‘And at our coming up, were brought out of two of
them, a Man and two Women, having in their Eyes
what I had often heard in my Childhood called ~
amongft the old Women in Exgland, a Biast.
<¢ Alas! /aid I, How came you to fuffer this inve-
¢ terate Difeafe to reign on you folong ?”? ** Indeed
Doétor,
To > oe See
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Do&tor, faid they, to tell you the Truth, we
thought (as well as agreat many of our Neigh=
bours, who had the fame Diftemper) to be well
again in avery little Time, as indeed they were in
lefs than a Fortnight.” «* Why ( /zid 1) your’s,
or Iam very much miftaken, has been coming on
you more than a Month:”’ «© Yes, Doéor, faid
the Man, more than fix Weeks :’ «« Very well,
Said I, and ave you refolved to make. Trial of my
Medicines, or fuffer it to run on longer ? If you
are refolved to put yourfelves under my Care, tell
me directly, for I am obliged to go this Evening,
or ‘Yo-morrow early, to a Patient about two
Leagues off ; and as far as I can tell, when I come
back, it may be too late ; however, as to that,
as your Eyes are your own, you may do as you
pleafe by them: *€ Good Doétor, /aid they.
don’t be uneafy, for you fhall try your Skill on us
before you go: ” ** Very well, /aid J, but before
I meddle with your Eyes, Idefign to give you
a {mall Matter of my purging Powders, the
better to prepare you for the Operations ; and as.
the Eyes are at this Time of Day very dange-
rous to meddle with, I will give you the Phy-
fick directly, and take in Hand your Eyes in the
Morning; for, to be plain with you, in many:
Cafes of the Eyes, the Light cannot, no more than.
our Tempers, be-too calm and ferene :”? «« That,
faid they, Do&or, you know better than we do,
and therefore we are very willing to conform our-.
felves to your Rules:”? * Very: well, Jaid I, (as:
having avery great Mind to a good Supper) and
have you then in either of your Tents any frefh
Mutton? In fhort, if you have not, you mufk
look out for fome 5”? when a Meflenger was fent
to
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to a neighbouring Tent, and foon returned with a
fore Quarter, afking me how I would have it drefs’d:
“¢ Drefs’d ! faid f, | fuppofe now you think I or-
dered this only for myfelf; but be that as it will,
‘T heartily thank you, and fet the Pot over og hs
for I fhall want the. Broth for working the Phy-
« fick ; but (faid I) befure you put in all-thie Meat,
¢¢ for the ftronger it is, I think it will be by far
«¢ the better.” So when I faw the Mutton under
Sail, I gave to each of them a fimall Dofe of my
bitter Apples in fome Honey, which I knew to be
fufficient, and that it could in no wife hurt them,.
charging them to keep continually walking and ftir-
ring their Bodies; and whilft the Phyfick was per-
forming its feveral Parts, came ina Woman, to ~
whom the People of the Family fpoke very courte~
oufly, afking her how fhe did: ** Do, faid fhe,
« Neighbours, very bad, and really I think very —
¢* bad indeed : 2 46 Als poor Woman, /aid they,
¢¢ Pay how long have you been fo, and what may
« your Diftemper be, Foire have obferved you ail-
‘¢ ing for a long Time :” «* That (/aid foe) is
«¢ what I cannot very well tell, though I am almoft
«* perfuaded by fome People that it is what the Doc-
«© tors call a Drop/y: It has been coming on me’
“° now almoft twelve Months, and is, inftead of the
«s leaft Appearance of Amendment, I think ftill
“s crowing worfe and worfe, infomuch that I am to
«s that Degree fwelled, that my Skin is ready to burft;
<¢ but Neighbours, Iam told you have a Doctor in
“* the Houfe, and to whom I am come, to afk him>
«if he cando me any Good.” Then one of the
Family told her, there was the Doctor, pointing at
me 3 of which] feemed'to take no Notice, though |
you may Suppofe IT heard every Word they faid ;
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either did I, till fhe came to me fo well as the
could, and afked me if I thought I could do her any
Good : Any Good, faid I, looking her full in the Face,
Pray what aids you ? Ail me, faid fhe, enough I think.
Pray (faid I) give me your Hand; and after I had felt
her Pulfe, and looked at her Legs, felt her Belly,
&¥c, I told her that I thought it a moft unaccountable
‘Thing, that People fhould be fo very carelefs of
their Health, and only for the Sake of faving a little
Money, to fuffer fuch inveterate Diftempers to reign
fo long upon them ; which, faid I, is juft the fame
with breaking your Necks, only for the Humour of
trying the Skill of the Doctor to fet it; however,
faid I, I will do for you all in my Power: All in
your Power ! faidfhe: Yes, faid I, all in my Power ;
You would not have me to promife you further than I
think may be performed by fecond Means; and that,
f fay, I am ready, if you pleafe, to put in Pra&ice.
Pray (faid the) what do you think my Diftemper to be 2?
To be, faid I, a@ Dropfy, an old confirmed inveterate
Droply: Indeed ! {aid fhe, and fo I did fuppofe it :
Why (faid 1) I warrant it has been coming on you now
more than twelve Months: Why really, Doéor, faid
fhe, you are very much in the Right of it ; and was I
as fure of a Cure, as that you have hit my Diflemper,
L would with all my Heart give you twenty Gold Duz
eats. Well,faid 1, havea good Heart, take this Eve-
ning, by Way of preparing the Body, a fmall Paper
of my purging Powder, and To-morrow Morning early
L will take from you fome Water ; of which, let me
tell you, you have in your Body not a little : So I gave
her a Paper of my Powders, ordered her to go Home
and take it.in a little Honey, and to work it with
Water Gruel, for that Broth was by no Means fit
for her; and then indeed my Stomach put me in
Dd Mind
Bia A
Mind of my own Supper ; and_after my Patients
thad pretty well thrown off their Phyfick, and the
Mutton was fully boiled, Iordered each of them a
Jarge Difh of the Broth, when I alfo fell at it myfelf,
and between the Broth and the Meat, Ifcon made a
very hearty Supper; and then I told my Patients .
they might alfo eat alittle of the Meat, if they
would, and that they fhould immediately after it go
to their Reft, for that I intended to roufe them very
early inthe Morning, and that, in order thereto, I
would, if they pleafed, alfo lay me down and take a
Napp ; and at Day-break I got up, and went tomy
Dropfy Patient, afking her how fhe did, and if fhe
' found herfelf, after her Phyfick, for the better or the
worfe; As to that, faid the, it has made on me no
great Matter of Alteration; however, Lam fully fa-
‘sisfied it has done me no Harm. Very well, faid I,
and as I am juff now obliged to be going away, I de-
fire you will tell me if you are willing I fhould touch
“you firft in two or th-ce Places in the Belly with g
‘hot Iron: Good Doéior, faid the, cannot you cure me by
any other Means ? No, {aid 1, there is no other Means
that [know of, unlefs you will give me Leave to make
alarge Elolein your Belly, and put ina Tap : ell,
faid fhe, burning will no Doubt be very painful to me 3
however, Lhad rather fuffer that, than the boreing a
Ficle through my Belly ; Very well, faid 1, and I think
ou are very much in the Rightof it, for I would
have you to confider if it is not better for you to mart
once, than always to ake ; befides, you know very well
that a defperate Difeafe muft have a defperate Cure :
Indeed Doéior, faid the, all you fay 1s very true, there-
fore do by me juft as you pleafe; then Ipat my Iron
“into the Fire, made it hot, and burnt her. in the
Belly in three feveral Places, and there actually came
§ j . 3 out
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out a great deal of yellow Water; and after I had
given her a Piece of my Plaifter, and dire@ted her how
‘to ufe it, [told her I muf be going, and that
if fhe would fpare me a {mall Matter of Money to
defray my Expences till I came back, I fhould think
myfelf very much obliged to her : Pray (aid the)
how long do you think you may be wanting ? Really, .
Maid I, that I cannot very well tell; it may be one, two,
or three Days, according tothe Cznditian I find my.
Patients in: Alas ! faid the, and what fhall I do in
your Abfence 2? Do! faid 1, was I here, I could do no
more for you for three or four Days, than keep draw~
ing Plaifters to the burnt Part, and that you may de
jourfelf, or any Body elfe for you, as you may fee Oc
cafion to change them ; and by the Time I come back, I
do not doubt but there will be on you a very great Altes
‘ratio: Then fhe gave me a Gold Ducat ; with
which, after bidding her for the Time Farewell, I
‘went directly to my fore-ey’d Gentry, who were all
‘Waiting my Coming, and ready to undergo the Ope-
ations ; however, before I took them in Hand, as
‘not thinking it convenient for me to ftay there any
longer, afterI had do&tor’d them, and having before
T left them, a very great Mind to a good Breakfaft, I
jafk’d them if they had eat any Thing for the Morr-
ing, they told me No, for that notwithftanding they,
‘Were after their Phyfick extreamly hungry, yet would
not they venture to eat any Thing tijl I came :
Very well, faid I, as to that I cannot blame you; bow.
ever, if you have any cold Meat lcfts I would by all
Means have you to eat a little before I take you in
Hand, for to be plain with you, you will not for fame
‘Lime after the Operation, be able to fee fo well bow ta
£9 about it: ‘Then the Remains of onr laft Night’s.
Supper was directly brought forth; and when I bad
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filled my Belly, I told them I was ready as foon as
they pleafed: They dire@lly left eating, and accord-
ing to Order, fat themfelves all down on the Floor,
and then I ina little Time (it being my Mafter-
Piece, and I having feveral Quills of my Powders
ready at my Hands) filled all their Eyes to that De-
gree, as to fet them a wallowing and getting upon
their Legs, capering and dancing like fo many Fai-
vies ; when I told them that they muft have Pa- °
tience, for that the violent Smarting would foon pafs
off, and that as I was obliged, as I told them the laft
Night, to go toa Patient about two Leagues off, I
could then tarry with them no longer ; therefore,
faid I, if you will be pleafed to help me to a little
Money to bear out my Expences till I return, you
will very much oblige me ; and if I did not at my
Return make on them a perfect Cure, I would on
my Honour give it them back again : Then they or-
dered one of the Women to give me aGold Ducat ;
and which, indeed, they could not do themfelves, they
being by that Time on the rubbing and twifting Or-
der, and fuch Abundance of Tears falling from their
Eyes, that had it been by Way of a natural Caufe,
and in Contrition for their paft Sins, it muft, no
Doubt, have been accounted a very happy Introduce
tion to their future Repentance. )
Now am [againon the Tramp, and in Pocket
for at leaft tied up in one Corner of my Blanket, at
the Bottom of one of my Pots of Ointment) fix
Gold Ducats, and in Blankeels to the Value of two
more ; and travelling merrily on at a good Rate, I
got that Evening to the Foot of the Mountain Mo/-
znegth, where in a former Expedition we left our
Horfes,
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_ Horfes, whilft we travelled on Foot up the Mountain,
_ and returned there from fubduing the Caftle of Ehiah
E'mbelide, and the four little Towns on the Top of
the Mountain, as is before mentioned ; and where I
called now on Lolbhammet Mefmeefey, who very cour-
teoufly reeeived me, and afked me after a very
friendly Manner, what Wind had blown me thither,
when I anfwered him with the old Story ; in Anf-
wer to which he told me that fo far as he could learn
thitherto, Muley Abdallah was at Taffilet : Sir, faid
I, you are certainly therein very much impofed on, for
Lam credibly informed he is at Terrident, and Tam
thither fully determined with myfelf to follow bing
for I fhall not be at Peace with myfelf till I have
found him, or at leaft heard a further Certainty
where he is : Very well, {aid he, but [ would have
you to tarry bere firft fome Time with mes to réfrele
yourfelf, during which we may chance to hear of bim
further. I told him that I was very much obliged
to him for his Civility, and that as he was pleafed ta
be fo very kind as to offer me fo great a Favour in
my Diftrefs, I was ready with all my Heart (as I was
through my great Travel very much harrafled) to
accept of it; and, in fhort, 1 ftaid with him three
Days, during which (he being very inquifitive after
my Journey) I gave him an Account of it, fo far as I
thought proper to let him know, and praifed on
feveral Patients by his Permiffion, and amongft them
all, rofe to the Value of twenty Shillings L£uglifh s
the third following Morning very early (I having:
over Night acquainted him with my Intentions, and
received from him a Gold Ducat to help me fore
ward, and his moft hearty, and, as he faid, fincere
Obedience and good Wifhes for Aduley Abdallah, alk
which he defired me to make acceptable to him, fo
Dd 3 | far
[pe 4d.
far as it might be in my Power) I took my Depar-
ture thence, and travelled up the Mountain as faft as
could, though ferioufly confidering with myfelf if
it might be proper or not for me to reft myfelf at
the Caftle of Ebiah Embelide, where I had been be-
fore to the then Inhabitants avery bitter Enemy ;
and therefore I had with myfelf a very great Debate
for fome Time, concerning it; as how, (many Years
having fince pafled) they might be all then dead,
thence removed, or their Remembrance of me quite
worn out; to th I was. by myfelf anfwered,
What Occafion had I to run any fuch Hazard ?
for that I was then frefh, and very well able to per-
form without it ; and therefore l agreed to give the
Cafile the go by, and to travel on rtill I bad gained
the Height, and I climbed up as faft as I could, till I
had got within Sight cf the four little Towns we had
formerly deftroyed, together with all the Men Inha-
bitants ; when I had again with myfelf fer fome
fhort Time another Debate, if it might net be ha-
zardous for me to pafs through them ; however, (on
confidering the Men then there to be all. Strangers, ©
or at leait to be grown up during my Abfence, thofe
formerly there being all to my Knowledge dead, that.
the Children then fpared there did not exceed ten
Years of Age, and that the Women who were then
alfo fpared, muft no Doubt be then under fo grievous
and teeriiping a Coniternation, as not to be capable
of taking any Notice of Faces, by Way of their-
making future Reprizals, or of my fweet Phyz in
particular) I paffed through without faluting any of
the Inhabitants, no further than my afking a Lad
whom I faw there with fome Almonds and Raifins in
a Bafket, how he fold them, and buying a Halfpenny-
worth of them, I travclied on down the Mountain,
On.
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the other Side, and about Sun fet got clear of it,
getting to another Part of the River Waddonfee/e,
where I was for the Night tolerably well entertained
in a Adoor’s Tent, though I had from him a very de-
plorable Account concerning the very late State of
that Neighbourhood, as how the Country was to
that Degree deftroyed, and in fuch Confufion, that
they and they only who happened to be of the
ftrongeft Party were accounted the happy People,
and of whom I foon found he had been fo happy to
be one. Then (faid I) it 7s no Doubt very dangerous
for a Stranger tobe among you: That indeed (faid
he) 7s according to his Behaviour, and the Nature of
bis Bufine]s which calleth him hither, or which Party
| he fides with : Why Sir, faid 1, as to my Part [have
no further Bufinefs here than to fella few Medicines
among? you, if I can, forthe Benefit of you all, with-
out meddling with your Quarrels on either Side : iVby
really (faid he) you fay very well, and I wifh you Sec- ~
ce/s with all my Heart; but, to be plain with you, we
have been of late fa far involvedin a Civil War, that
one Parifh was ap againft anather in Arms, deftraying
the Fruit of eaca other's Labour, and cutting. ove ano-
ther’s Throats fo faf? as they could : Alas ! faid I, @
very unhappy Cafe indeed ! To which he anfwered:
me, that I fhould not be under any Uneafinefs at it,
but endeavour to compofe myfelf, for that he would
in the Morning put me into the beft Method he
could : However, I could not (notwithfanding his:
fair Promifes, and though I was prodigious weary }
take any Reft for the firft Part of the Night, ftill
wifhing myfelf further off ; when I told myfelf, that
as it wasmy Chance to come there, it would be in.
vain for me to vex myfelf, but endeavour to get
thence again as welbas I could; fol fell into a found
ie D d 4 dleep,
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Sleep, and flept till Sun-rifing; then I got up, and
faluting my Heft with a Good-morrow, and telling
him that I thought myfelf very much obliged to him
for my kind Welcome, and if he was pleafed to ac-
cept of any of my Menicines, they were very hear-
tily at his Service: Lo, no, faid he, you are very wel-
come to what you have had here; and as ta Phyfick, I
never took any in my Life, and unlefs I may happen to
have more Occafion for it than I have had hitherto, £
never will take any; but what makes you in fe much
furry ? If I want none, there are thofe among fi us
ta my Knowledge thgt do, and who, no Doubt, when
they hear you are come, will be very glad of it; and as
to your Safety amonft us, (as our Civil Diffentions are
now atan End) hereis my Hand; giving itin a very
friendly Manner into mine, and afking me where I ine
tended to to go: 4s tothat, Sir, faid I, J am not very
well determin’d, whether to Terrident or Taffilet:
Then (faid he) J tell you on my Honour that both thofe
Roads are very unfafe, and dangerous to travel in at
prefent, for after our feveral Conflicts in thefe Paris,
ibey are now, by our Example, acting the fame in
them; therefore flay with me till thofe Bickerings. are
over, till which you foall be very welcome in my Haufe
to fuch as I have: Sir (faid 1) L moft humbly thank
you; and which, indeed, I was obliged to accept of;
for that very Day came thither repeated Advices
that there was in and throughout both thofe Pro-
vinces (which are much the fame with our Counties)
very grievous Doings, infomuch that they were. kil-
ling and plundering all they could lay their hands on;
fo that I was obliged to take up my Quarters with
this hofpitable Infidel during the fpace of twenty-
four Days; during which. I had feveral Patients, and
amongft them all got about forty Shillings Sterling ~
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aGing.after a moft cautious Manner, in giving fuch
fmall Dofes of of my purging Powder, as I knew could
do them no Harm ; and as I was fo lucky to perform
nothing by Way of curing the Eyes, I gave general
Satisfaction ; and, in Short, got amongft them fo fa-
mous a Name, as I prefume none of the Quack Fra-
ternity hadever done before me, they really having fo
good an Opinion of me, that on another of the Frae
ternity’s coming one Day there, and though he
might, for any Thing asI knew to the contrary,
have been a very able Man, yet did they (on my
feeming Indifference of of him) direétly drive him
thence, threatning him, that in cafe they ever caught
him there again, they would cut off his Ears,
Now am I, by the general Approbation and Con-
fent, on Promife of my being back again in three
_ Weeks, and on their hearing the Roads were again
paflable, permitted to depart, taking my Way for
Arballah, in the Plain of Suze; and without any
Thing remarkable, I arrived the fecond follow-
ing Evening at a Place called in their Language
Roffelelwad, or the Head of the old River, thoroughly
refolving to get that Night, if L could, to Terrident ;
and which, indeed, had not that Part of the Journey
proved moft unfortunate to me, I fhould have reach’d
before the Gates were fhut, I being about Ten
o’Clock at Night within halfa Mile of it; when I
- wasfurprized by three Ruffian AZoors, knock’d down,
plundered, and. in fhort, deprived of every Thing i
had in the World, ftripping me quite naked ; and
rummaging intomy Blanket, they foon found my
Blankeels, which, as the Moon was then at the Fnll,
and the Horizon very clear, I faw to my very great
| : Diffatisfaction 3
fee 4
DiffatisfaGtion ; and when I faw them ranfacking
my Knapfick, I was really terrified a great deal
more, I having hid all my Gold at the Bottom of
one of my Pots of Ointment, in all to the Value of
fix Pounds Sterling ; though [had fo far the Prefence .
of Mind as to tell them that they could not be any
Bae the better for the few Medicines I had in it,
but (as they did not know how to ufe them) rather
the worfe; though they would be to me, by Way of
my getting a fmall Matter for my Subfiftence, of
very great Service 5 3 and as my Life depended thereon,
T hop’ *d they would be pleas’d to giveme my Blanket,
Knapfack, and few Medicines back again, which, as
they had taken from me all my Money, -would in all
Likelihood keep me from ftarving. No, xo, faid
they, you have got your Life, and ga therewith absut
jour Bufinefs : Then. { very much complained of the
Cold, and of the many Wounds I ‘had about me,
defiring them that if they would not give me back
my Medicines, they would at leaft give me a Pot of
my Ointment: No, 10, faid they, for if your Cint-,
ment is fo very excellent far your Wounds, pte: why
#5 it not for our’s ? Elowever, faid one of them, here
take your Blanket, and be packing about your Bufi-
nels, or you will oblige us to be very angry with you 3
to which another of them added, that [ was an un-
confcionable Dog, and if I faid another Word, he
would take my Blanket from me again: Then pray
Gentlemen, faid 1, if you will not give me a whole Pot,
give mea fmall Matter of the Ointment at the Bottom
of one of them: You Dog, faid they, you fhall bave
none 3 and if you dare [peak another. Word, we will
cut off your Ears 5 at which they went dire@ly from
me, and without fpeaking another Word on cither
Side, left me to confider the F olly of wae
ches, »
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Riches, as not knowing who fhall gather them.
And now am I obliged to travel empty. away for -
Terrident, as you may fuppofe, in a very difconfolate
Manner ; and in walking but a flow Pace, I got in
half an Hour’s Time to the Gates of the City,
which I found to be fhut, and all within very filent,
therefore I found myfelf obliged to lay me down in
one of their burying Places, amongit the Graves,
where I continued till Day-light, reflecting on my fo
— late Misfortune ; then I got me up, and kept Walk-
ing till the Sun was up, and the Gates were opened,
when I marchedin, and went directly to a Friend? S
Houle, a Frenchman, we being formerly fellow Sol-
diers, and always very intimate with one another:
I was directly admitted Entrance, and very courte-
oufly received by him, telling me that he was. very
glad to fee me, but to fee me there at that Time very
forry : Why, faid 1, what is the Matter ? I bope there
are not more Evils fier about to befall me; if fo, I
think it will be a very unhappy Time indeed ; telling
him of my fo late Misfortunes. lus ! my Friend, faid
he, that is what I did not dream of, and I am jfin-
cerely forry for you ; but what I meant by faying fo,
was tending to Matters of another Nature, and which
is indeed quite different > Pray (faid I) what may it
be ? Be, faid he, you muff know toat here ts now in the
Town Abdallah Mahomet, one of old Muley Swine’s
natural Sons, who hath lately gained to bis Intereft at
leaft one hundred Thoufand of the Mountaineers, and
was with them about two Months ago at Santa Cruiz,
took it, and, with a good Part of the Country round,
brought it under his Subje@ion, and is now forcing all
able-bodied Men, who will not voluntarily come into his
Service ; therefore I think it (till be is. departed bence)
highly mecefary for you to remain fecretly in’ my
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Houfe ; for foould he or any of bis People happen 10
fee yOuy you would no Doubt be obliged to follow him:
And whither ({aid 1) does he defign te ge, or what may
be his Intentions ? That indeed, faid he, I canaot par-
ticularly tell you, but firf? you may fuppofe he will
pene bis Party all he can, and then moft likely
make a bold Pufb againff Mahommet Welderriva,
and the Black Army, for the Empire; Indeed ! {aid
I, then I find my Wifbes are fiill every Day more and
more coming about, for if natural Sons thus prefume
where there are fo many born under Wedlock, there
will be no Doubt amongft them all (as they are fo many
FTundreds) rare Work in a very little Time; therefore
all I foall fay further to it for the prefent is, May
GOD increase their Animofities, and fend me from
amongft them, Indeed, my Friend, faidhe, happy are
thofe who are out of it; and as tous, we have already
atted our Farts very fufjiciently in their blaady Enter= —
prizes: And then I returned again to my late Mif-
fortune, telling my Friend, that in Regard to my fu-
ture Proceedings, I thought the Lofs of my Knap-
fack and Medicines to be (amongft all my Loffes)
the greateft. *‘* Well, fad he, I fuppofe I guefs
“© what you mean, and it fhall go very hard, if Ido
*< not in a very little Time procure you fome o-
© ther ;”’ which indeed he did the next Day, and
then he alfo told me that he had been credibly in-
formed that Morning, that Abdallah Mahomet was
fully determined to march the Day after with all his
People for Adoracco: ** Very well, faid F, and I the:
next for Santa Cruz: “* Prithee, faid he, don’t
<< be fo very hafty, we may not perhaps fee one a-
«¢ nother again: of a long Time, therefore pray oblige
<¢ me with your Company now as Jong as you can:”
s¢ Very well, /aid I, and fo I will ;” as indeed I
sity , 66 did
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did till the third Morning ; when, after our taking
our Leave of each other, I departed with my Knap-
fack, afew Medicines, and fix Blankeels ; and it be-
ing a very dangerous Part of the Country to travel
through, I travelled on all Day without Intermiffion,
and got about Sun-fet to Terroo/?, a Village in the
Parifh of Giffeemah, near the River Souze, about
three Leagues fhort of Santa Cruiz, where luckily
meeting with two of my old Acquaintance, I was
entertained by them very friendly all that Nicht ; and
fetting out thence very early the next Morning, I
about Ten o’Clock that Forenoon got well to Santa
Cruiz, where being before well acquainted, I was
kindly received by the Inhabitants, and treated for
two Days after a moft friendly Manner, though I did
not think fit tolodge in the Town, but retired at
Nights to a Cave about a Mufket-fhot without, where
T had feveral AZoors and two Blacks for my Compa-
nions ; and returning again at Sun-rifing into the
‘Town, where, as not altogether caring to rely my-
felfon my Friends, I fought out an Employ, and
was hired by a Baker to carry his Bread round the
Town to his Cuftomers ; through which Means I
got a fufficient Subfiftence, all this Time looking
fharp out for a Veffel ; and though I found feveral,
yet could I not meet with any fo Chriftian-like Com-
mander, as on any. Terms to carry me with him ;
however, I did not defpair, for notwithftanding my
prefent State, and no Hopes of a Veflel at that
Time, yet did my Mind daily tell me that my Capti-
vity was running out apace, and my nocturnal Ima-
ginations were fuficiently ftuff’d with foolifh idle
Fancies and Dreams aboutit; infomuch, that I was
not a little afraid that I fhould thereby let my Com-
panions know my Defigns, for they often i
OW
ee ae
how Icry’d out in my Sleep, and mentioned Gtlrale
tar, (where, indeed, there was fearce a Night paffed,
without my dreaming of my being fafely , landed ;)
and as at my awaking I very particularly remem-
bered it, and took Notice that my Comrades began
to prate amonegit themfelves concerning it, therefore
I one Day, as it were accidentally, began the follow-
ing Difcourfe with them : ‘* Pray Gentlemen, /aid
* i is any one of you a good Interpreter of -
«© Dreams??? “NotI, fatd one ; nor I, faid ano-
“© ther 3 and, in Vol. me faid they all : Bovoen
<¢ lay them before us, fard they, for if we cannot
<* come up to the true Interpretation, it will be ftill
© doing no Harm.”’ And I having before duly con-
fidered. my Story, I told them that I had for feveral
Nights paft been ftrangely hurried in my Sleep by
Dreams, as how that A@uley Abdaliah fhould be fled
to Gibraltar, that he was there kindly received by
the Chriffians, and that we were all going with A/a-
bomet Wolderriva to bring him back ; nay, further,
that we went, and that at our Arrival we were met
by. one of the moft ftately Lyons I had ever feen be-
fore, and by him driven back again, threatening Adq-
homet after a high Rate, that in cafe he ever caught
him or the Spaniard there again,he would fend them
in Chains to his Royal Mafter, to be expofed to pub-
lick View amongft the other Outlandifh Monfters in
the Tower of London. This, I hope, tho’ al-
together falfe, my Red tal not impute to my_
_ Love for Romance, and Difregard for Truth, when: —
they have duly weighed the Circumftances that in-_
duced me to it, but confider it, as it was really in-
tended, to take off the Edge of thofe inquifitive
Wretches from talking any further about whar I talk’d
in my Sleep; and having told them pny ftrange Fic-
tion, -
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| Fiction, they faid they could not tell what to make.
of it, and could not but allow it to bea very extraor-
dinary and moft unaccountable Dream.
Now, being ftill without any likelihood of meet-
ing witha Ship, I am thoroughly refolved to forfake
my Cave, and feek farther, telling my Comrades
_ that as I was fomewhat apprehenfive I had worn out
my welcome at Santa Cruz, I would firft go thither.
to thank them for all paft Favours, and then travel
farther by way of ferving the Country with my Mec-
dicines ; and the fecond following Morning meeting,
there in the Street a German, one of the Quack Fra-
ternity, I foon infinuated myfelf fo far into his Fa-
vours,as to-get him to promife me to go with me,
and the next Morning we accordingly fet out, and
travelled back the three Leagues to Terroo/?f, on the
River Souz, where I lodged the Night before I came.
into Sayta Cruz: Now we begun. to open the many,
{trange and wonderful Cures we had performed, by.
way of our Dogtorfhip, infomuch that we had at the
Village of Terrcoff, and up and down the Parith of
Giffeemah great Bufinefs fora Weeks Time; but a-
las ! what could all that avail me ; Indeed, it was
with much Hazard, prefent Bread, but on my duly.
confidering the many Hazards and Difficulties I had
undergone to get thither, and that my former Prac-
tices that way, were altogether on Account of the
better concealing my Efcape, and that as TF had be-
haved with fo much Caution in my Travels, thro’ fo
many dangerous and round about tirefome Ways, in-
fomuch that I was obliged from A“eguinez to Santa
Cruz, to make of it more than fix Months Jour-.
ney, whereas I might by travelling the direét. Road,
) ree have
a kas Oe |
dave performed it in thrice as many Days, and all
for the better keeping my Intentions from Sufpicion
therefore asI had thereby, fo far accomplifh’d my
defired Ends, I really thought my Bufinefs now to be
of a quite different Nature, than practifing Phyfick,
and that notwithftanding there was no Ship for my
Purpofe whilft I was at Santa Cruiz, yet, Icould not
tell how foon there might : I had then been from
thence a Week, during which there might happen to
come in feveral, therefore I plainly told myfelf, that
where I was then, I had no Bufinefs, and therefore
it was by no Means confiftent with my unhappy
Condition, and that I ought to make the beit of my
Way to Santa Cruiz again, or fome other Sea-port 3
however, on my feeing vaft Troops of wild Fowl —
on the River, I thought if I could get a few of them
they might be to my Friends at Santa Cruiz avery
acceptable Prefent; but how to get them was the
chief Point ; Gun nor Ammunition I had none, nor.
where to get any I did not know; however, I was
through very great Luck, provided with them both
in avery little Time, and that Night I went to the
River Side, and as the Moon fhone very bright, I
faw a vaft Number of them fwimming onthe Water
in a ftill part of the River, and levelling amongft
them as wellas I could, 1 fired and killed four Couple
of Ducks; when throwing off my Blanket ; I threw
myfelf into the River, and foon brought them out,
and then I retired for the Night to my Reft, and lay
me down by my Comrade, telling him of my. Suc-
cefs, and that I defigned in the Morning to prefent
them to my Friends at Santa Cruiz, and that if he
would go with me, I would dare engage to make him
very welcome ; No, faid he, / am fully determined
' in the Morning to go another Way, and as I find you
are
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are defigned to eave me, I wifh you very well; and
after taking a fhort Napp, and the Day-light appear=:
ing, we ftarted up and fet out, he to feek after frefty
Patients one Way, and I another, to Santa Cruiz
with my Ducks ; where I was very kindly received
by the Merchants, and handfomely rewarded for my
Fowl, but finding no Ship for my Purpofe, I re-
turn’d again to the River, killed more Fowl, carry’d
them to Santa Cruiz, and fold them at a good Rate $
and after I had recruited my Ammunition, I went
back again, and fo continued. in going and coming
for feveral Weeks, by which Time the Winter was
pretty well paft ;tho’ all this Time to my very great
Diffatisfaction no Ship.
Tuts Trade of Duck killing I found toturn to
much better Account than my former Bufinefs, and
to kill them, rather than the A@gors, much the fafer:
Way ; tho’ it was attended with fome Hardfhips and
very fevere Colds, yet as my prefent Condition was:
‘fo very unhappy in the general, I thought myflelf very
well off in it.
Now is the Spring approaching apace ; therefore,
as I had been fo long in and out about Santa Cruizs:
Jooking out after a Veflel, and all te no Purpofe ; I:
was fully determined with myfelf to try what might:
bedone that way at Saphee, and in Cafe I could not
be there fuccefsful, to travel onto the Willadea, and
meceting foon after a Spaniard, one of my old Ac-
quaintance, I thought if I could get him to go with
‘me, it might not be amifs; but he in very little
‘Time faved me that Trouble, telling me, that in
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@afe he had not happened to meet me there, he
fhould have been at that Time at leaft a League on
his Way : On your Jay, faid J, pray whither may
you be going to? Going to, faid he, a long “Fourney,
and as I heara very troullefome one 3 pray, faid I,
to what Part of the Country ? why, faid he, to Sa-
phee ; to Saphee, faid 1, that is a Place I have had
very great Inclination to fee for fonte Time, therefore
had [any Bufinefs there; or was I fure to get by it,
but one fingle Blankeel, I would go with you: Why,
faid he, if you are in good earneft, and your Bufinefs
will permit you, Lwill bear out your Expences on the
Road and be helpful to you in every Thing elfe that I
can 3 very well, faid 1, have a Gare, Fdent take you
at your Word, for to be plain with you, you don’t know
“how far you have brought me in the Mind of it 5 and as-
L£ have very little to do here, a very little further Per-
fuafion may prevail ; well then, faid he, we will firft ga~
to my Friend’sHoufe, and take a Bottle upon it, and’
by that time we have finifhed it, your Refolutions may
be better fettled ; as indeed they were, before our ~
Bottle was half. out, giving him my Word to go with”
him, at which he feemed, and wasI dare fay very:
glad, telling me that as it was fo far onward in the.
Afternoon, he thought it would be the beft Way for.
us to fet up there forthe Night, and to fet out early
in the Morning ; then he order’d fora good Suppers.
after which we drank two Bottles more, and went:
to our. reft.
Now am I really better pleafed, than Thad beer
ef a long ‘Time before, and as foon as the Morning:
Light appeared, I got up and by the Time I had-
flepp’d to the Door to look at the Weather and in:
, : again,
ame :
again, my Comrade was up alfo, and after making:
a good Breakfaft, and taking withus about fix Pounds .
of Bread, we fet forward together, and got that.
Evening without any Difafter to Agroot, the little
fifhing Coves before mentioned, in.my Travel with.
the Carrivanto Guinea ; where we met two Aoarsy.
juft arrived before us, from Hahah, a Parith about a
| Day’s Journey in our Way farther on towards Saphee,,
-and which we muft be obliged to pafs thro” the next
Iday, who told us, that the Inhabitants of a neigh-
bouring Parifi to them were up in Arms againft
them, and proving much too ftrong for their Parifh,
they were obliged to fly for their Lives, the greateft
Part of them being deftroyed, and that throughout all:
that Province were the like doings. This fo terrify’d
nity Comrade, that notwithftanding his fo very great
harry for Saphee, and my cheering him all in my
Power; yet, could not I perfuade him to go with
7
me but very little farther ; however, I fo far pre-
vailed with hiny. as to continue with me there, for
that Night, and‘then I thought ithigh Time to look:
about me for fomething for Supper, but there being.
nothing to be had we took out our Bread, and fell at.
it, and whilft we were eating, a AZcor came to us,.
defiring us to.look at his Eyes: ** Your Eyes, /aid /,
“*'pray what ails them? and Jaying one of my Fingers:
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on one of his Eyelids : So, fo, /aid I, you are co-
ming blind apace ; but, /azd 7, I cannot fee what
Encouragement Travellers can have to do any
Good, where nothing is to be had to keep
them from ftarving,”’ ** Nothing! faid be, not-
~ withftanding my Eyes are fo very bad, I fee you
“have got very good Bread:” “* Yes, /aid I, and
‘fo we have, but without any Thanks to you or
‘any of your Neighbours ; for we brought it with
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66 us from Santa Cruiz: ieee | faid he, then T
‘< will tell you for your Comfort, if you will look
*¢ at my Eyes, and help me all in your Power, I will
*¢ give you a dried Haike, and fome very good.
<6 Oil:’? ** Very well, fatd J, you fpeak like an.
‘* honeft Man, and therefore pray haften and fhew
*¢ yourfelf fo, and after Supper we will do fomewhat .
‘© for you 3°” and which indeed he did in good Ear=—
neft, bringing us a middling Haike, and.about a Pint —
of Oil, and making us a Fire broil’d theifh, and-
we foon made a very hearty Supper on it, when we
gave him a Paper of our purging Powders, to pre-
pare his Body againft the Morning, and lay us down
under a Fig Tree in the Court, for the Night: At.
Day-break we got up, and without doing any farther
Mifchief to our laft Night’s Benefa€tor, we fet out
and travelled on farther together about two Leagues;
which brought us to the Foot of the Mountain
Gorrafurnee, where the Spaniara’s Heart failing him,
he told me plainly that he would not for that ‘Time, |
travel on any farther in that Road, was he fure
to get by it a hundred Ducats, but that he was re-
folv’d to return again to his Houfe at Yerrident, till
the Country was again a little better fettled ; and if
IT would go with him, I fhould on his Honour be
very heartily welcome; I told him that I altogether
as heartily thanked him, but-as I was got over my...
Journey fo far, I was thoroughly refolv’d to fee it.
out, be the Confequence what it would ; fo after:
fharing our littl Bread, and few Medicines, we..
parted, him back towards Lerrident, and 1 forwards.
towards Saphee, travelling up the Mountain as fait
as I could, tho’ before [had got quite at the Top of:.
it, | very unhappily met with four Ruffian AdZors,
armed with Mufkets, and long murdering Knives, .
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_who immediately without afking meany the leaft
_ Queftion, fell to rifling me, {tripped me quite naked
and were going off with my Knapfack and Blanket,
when I earneftly intreated them to give me them back
again, for that I had nothing elfe to depend on for a
Livelihood, but afew Medicines I had therein, and
nothing to cover me from the Inclemency of the Air,
but that old Garment; you lye, you Rafcal, faid
** one of them, it isa very goodone, and therefore
6 you fhall not have it:”” ‘¢ Pray then, Sir, /aid J,
«s Jet me have my Knapfack, Ay, ay,’ fays another
“¢ let him have it, for itcan be of no Benefit to us
“© and may very likely keep him from ftarving ;:’”’ So
thro’ the Means of a confcientious Thief, I had my
Knapfack and few Medicines back again; I then
travelled on quite naked, till I had got two Leagues
farther up the Mountain, where I to my great Satis-
faction came to three Houfes, out of one of which
came an old. Woman, who feemed to pity my Con-
dition very much, and gave me a Piece ofan old
Blanket, a Dith : Butter-Milk, and fome Jerrodes
or Loou@ss with which they are vifited once in fix
or feven Years to that degree, {warming in from
Seaward upon them, im incredible. Multitudes, as:
even to darken the Air, and at once overfpreading a-
whole Province eat up every green Leaf and Herb;
fo that the Fields and ‘T'rees look all one as they do in
the bleakeft Winter ; thefe Infects are not only innu-
merable, but of a large Size fome of them at leaft.
_ two Incheslong, and about the Bienefs of a Man’s’
‘Thumb; they are really good eating and in Tafte moft
like Shrimps, and are by the Inhabitants, firft purging:
- them with Water and Salt, boiled in new Pickle, : and
then laid wp in dry Salt by way of Referve : After:
this good Woman had thus kindly ufed me, and given
me
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me fome more of the Jerredes to carry with me, one
of her Neighbours happening to come by, and taking
alfo fome Pity on me, gave me a Piece of another
old Blanket, fo as I] was between them both pretty
well cover’d again, and really thought myfelf well
off, travelling. cheerfully on to the Houfe of an old
Acquaintance, by ‘Trade: a Shoemaker,’ who made
me very welcome, took off from me my old Rags,
and gave mea very good Blanket; and as he knew
I fully intended to ftay with him for the Night, he
ordered his Wife to get ready fome Cu/caffooe for
my Supper; and in the Morning for my Breakfaft
fome Zumineeta, whichis Barley roafted in a Pan
ever the Fire, much in like Nature of Coffee, then
itis ground down by a’ Hand Mill, and after it is
clean from the Bran ’tis mixed with Water, and is
very often carried with them in a little Bag to their
Labour, or on a Journey, and when they are difpofed
to refrefh themfelves, they take out fome of this Zu-
mineeta intoa little Cup, they generally carry witly
them: for that Purpole, mix it with fome Water, and-
drink it off, being much after the Scotch Fafhion ;
with this only Difference, that, being plain Oatmeal,
this, Barley reafted, and on this, I travelled all that
Day, getting towards Night to the Parith of Idogurt,
where I very luckily happened to-meet with a very
friendly and-hofpitable Houfe, getting a good Supper
and Lodging, and the next Morning a good Break-
faft : Ttravell’d merrily on all that Day, and: with-
out any Accident, got before Night to Shedemab,
‘which I found to be engaged in Quarrel with Abdah
a neighbouring Parifh, and here I am. obliged, on:
Account of thofe evil Diffentions, to lie by for fix-—
Z
teen Days, and really a good Part of it in & miferable
Condition; being. ipaebliged as Provifions were fearce to-
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- Borrow a Point of the Law, or ftarve, living altoge-
~ ther on raw Carrots ; tho’ indeed I had then for the
_firft three Days with Permiffion, but wearing out
my welcome, I was afterwards obliged to go into the
Gardens at Nights, and take them after a clandeftine
~ Manner ; fo this fhould I have been obliged to have
continued longer, had I not very accidentally hap-
pened to meet a Moor, who had feen me fomewhere
before felling my Medicines, who earneftly entreated’
me to gowith him to his Houfe, to fee his Wife,
who he faid was very much indifpofed, as indeed fhe
really was, for at my coming, I found her to be in
ahigh Fever, being in a dry burning Heat and very
reftlefs; and now was I at a ftand for fome time
how to manage, for as this was what I had never
- praétis’d before in,. I knew not for fome time what
to do with her, efpecially as I had loft my Lancet
and burning Iron; however, I thought myfelf o-
bliged to do ! fomething, and therefore I was refolv’d
to put her to Sleep, in order to which I defired the
Man to fend fome body directly to gather fome
~ Poppy Flowers, which being foon brought in, I boil’d
a handful of them in Water, ftrain’d it off, fweetened
it with Honey, and gave. her about half a Pint of |
-it to drink, which threw herin a very little ‘Time
into a great Sweat, and found Sleep; when her Huf-
band and I fell at a good Bowl of Cu/caffoe, filled
our Bellies, and “went to Sleep alfo; early inthe
Morning, my Patient and I happened to awake much
about the fame Time, which was indeed very much
to my Satisfaction, for to be plain, I thought fhe
would have flept much longer ; however, be that as
it will, fhe was revived toa very great Degree, and
grew perfectly well in a few Days, praying: for
the al and nothing fhe had, was too- good for’
him 3,
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him ; at my Requeft, fhe (after giving me two
Gold Ducats) defired her Hufband to convey me
fafe thence to the Caftle of Malben-Hammedufh,
where I was obliged, on Account of a Report there
of a great Party of the Mountaineers having been
very troublefome a few Days before at Saphee, get-
ting over the Walls, and killing the Centinels, Ge.
to remain feven Days ; during which I was. (thro’
Means of fome old Acquaintance I met with there)
well taken Care of, and never failed of my Belly
full thrice every Day; and there being a very dan-
gerous. Wood to travel through between that and
Saphee, it being the general Rendezvous of a Gang
of mercilefs Thieves, who generally ftripped and
murdered ajl that came in their Way, infomuch that
it was even impracticable for any going fingle, or but
a few together, to efcape them ; therefore, when
any of the People had Occafion to go that Way,
they gavetimely Notice round the Neighbourhood,
fo that they might mufter up a Party well armed.
This Woodis plentifully ftored with certain Trees
called Argon, growing to a very large Size, and their
Branches fpreading a vaft Circumference, which are
full of long Prickles, much in like Nature of a
Thorn, bearing great Plenty of a Fruit (if it may
be properly fo called) much like a Peach in Shape
and Smell, though none can eat of them; however, —
when, they are ripe, and fallen off the Trees, the In-
habitants carefully gather them off the Ground, and
make thereof (that is to fay, of certain fmall Stones
growing in the Middle, the outer Part being no other
than a Shell or Hufk) a very good Sort of Oyl, by
grinding them fmall, by which Means an Oyl comes.
forth, which is ufed in moft of their Eating, and.
efteemed amongft them by far preferable to that of.
their
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their Olives. And nowam J about to beat up the
Quarters of thefe defperate Out-Laws ; for on the
eighth Day, very early inthe Morning, I fet out ia
Company with about thirty Afoors well armed, ha- |
ving with them feveral Camels and Mules, laden
with their Merchandize, as Argon Oyl, Barbary
Skins, &c. for Sapee, pafling on till we had got o-
ver the better half of this Wood, without any Thing
remarkable ; when we came up with feven foors,
wiz. four Men and three Women, three of the Men
juft expiring, and the fourth with the Women, very
much wounded, lying quite naked on the Ground,
being (they faid) thus ufed by a Party of the Moun-
taineers about an Hour before we came up with
them, and that on Notice of our Approach, they in
“a very great Hurry left them. This put our Mere
--chantsinto a great Fright,and they confulted amongft
themfelves for a long Time, if it would be beft for
them to proceed, or to go back again ; to which i
anfwered, that as we were got over the better half
of our Journey, it would be altogether as great, nay
the greater Hazard of the two, to go backward than
forward, for that they might depend the Villaing -
were nearer to us than they imagined; and fhould
we offerto go back it would but fhow our Fear,
and then they would no Doubt, foon become the
more bold; whereas, if we continued our March boldly
on, and kept a good Look out, they would not dare
to approach us, as (by their running away at our
Approach) feemed to me to be very plain: On which
it was agreed by all to travel on; and after taking up
the three Women and the wounded Man, (the other
three being then Dead, we proceeded, and got with-
out any other Hindrance, about T'wo of the Clock
an the Afternoon, to Saphee, where I pafied for a
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Day
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Day or two for one of the People belonging. to, the
Carrivan ; and, as you may fuppofe, ‘I looked fharp -
out for.a Veffel, but could not find any one to my
Mind ; not but here were two, and one belonging to
pone Bawden, of Flufbing, my firft Coufin, we
eing Sifters Children ; however, tho’ I met him
twice, and my Biocd boil’d in my Veins at the Sight
of him, yet did we not fpeak on either Side, which
was no Doubt a very great Misfortune to me; for had
he known whol was, he would, Iam well fatished,
have carry’d me with him, and thereby have pre-
vented me from many troublefome and eminent —
Dangers which happened to me, during the Time
that | was obliged to ftay longer in Barbary, thro’
this Omiffion; My Abode at Saphee was no more
¢han fixteen Days, during which I often frequent-
ed the Houfe of Monfieur Pedro Pollee, a French
Merchant, who was extreamly kind to me, and with
whom I always met with avery friendly Entertain-
ment, and I had amongft his Servants (tho’ they —
were poor enough (twelve Blankeels, over and a- ~
bove the Mafter’s Liberality, and they otherwife
did me al] the good Offices in their Power ; how- —
ever, notwithftanding all this kind Treatment, I was
more down in the Mouth now, than I had been
from my firft fetting out from MMeguinez, reflecting
on the many Hardfhips and Dangers I had thitherto
undergone, and {tillno Manner of Appearance of an
Alteration ; when who, fhould happen to come into
my Mind, but the black Prophetefs, whom I met —
with at AZequinez the Day before my fetting out, and
very particularly how fhe had told me, that I fhould
meet with a great many Difficulties before I got off ;
which indeed, I knew fo far, to my very great Dif-
comfort, to be true, and therefore 1 was refolved ©
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Patience to wait the Event of what was to come.
That Night, on my lying down to my Reft, and
reflecting on my Dreams in the Cave at Santa Cruz,
I was (on my falling into a Slumber) again hurry’d
after a very furprizing Manner, my black Prophe-
tefs, to my feeming, taking me by the Hand, and
telling me with a fmiling Afpect, looking me full in
the Face, that I was a very fainhearted Soldier,
for that I could not thitherto charge her with any
Thing fhe had told me concerning my Efcape,more
than I had found to be true; for notwithftanding I
had thitherto fuffered a great deal, yet was I ftili
out of the Hands of the Enemy ; therefore, as the
had told me before to keep a good Heart, and my
own Secrets, fo muft I continue to do, and my Re-
demption would foon be accomplifhed; and for me
to abide where I then was any longer, would be al-
together out of my Way, for that was not the Place
for me to find a Ship for my Purpofe, I having yet
“many more Difficulties to undergo ; however, [
fhould continue my Refolutions, and all would end
well to my Satisfaétion : Then to my feeming, fhe
was going off, and I ftruggling to detain her longer,
ftarted up and found all this to be no more thanx
Dream ; and after reflecting thereon for fome fhort |
Time, I fell again into a Doze, and again dreamt
the fame, and further, that I fhould haften to the
Wihlladea, and there I fhould find Things more to my
Content. As foon as the Day light appeared, I got
up to confult myfelf further about the Journey, and
in a very little Time I was fully refolv’d thereon ;
however, I confidered that it might be very proper,
ifI could, to procure me fome Company: but tho”
I looked out very fharp, yet could I not all that
Day meet with any to my Mind; however, I the
Pra next
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next Day met with a W/ulatto, one of my old Sol-
diers, and after telling him that I was ‘very glad to
fee him, I afked’- him what Bufinefs had called him
thither, to which he anfwered me, None further
than my own Curiofity : Then old Friend, faid I, you
had as well go with me to Willadea, hence about
twelve Leagues 3 to which he readily confented, and
as readily travelled on with me, and ‘got that Even-
ing into the Middle of a large Wood,.where we
found half a Dozen inhabited Tents, and in one of
them got our Supper and Lodging : Setting out ear-
ly thence the next Morning, we got about Noon to
Wrilladea off Marcegongue, the Portugeze Garrifon,
about fifteen Leagues: Here I found two Brigan-
tines and a Sloop ; and of one of the former, “fohn
Simmons of Penryn, one of my old School Fellows,
happened’ to be Commander; with whom I foon re-
mew'd my Acquaintance, and found him and his Peo-
ple extreamly civil tome; but he being poor Man,
very fick, departed this Life in a few Weeks after,
which was a very great Difappointment to me, and
I was really very much troubled at it. Now finding
Provifions to be very dear here, thro’ Means of the
Moorifo Butchers and Bakers impofing upon the
Chriflians, felling their Beef at Three-pence per
Pound, and Bread in Proportion, I (at the Requeft
of the Ships Mafters) went to the Markets or Fairs in
the Province of Dueullah, about five, or fometimes
feven Leagues off, and bought Bullocks and Sheep
according as they wanted, driving them to the Water
Side; where the Sailors convey’d them on board,
and neatly butchered them; and reckoning all
Charges, the Meat did not come to more than three
Farthings a Pound, a middling Bullock Seah in
the Market about thirty Shillings, and a very large
sheep :
ET gat J "
‘Sheep fix: After which I lived altogether on Ship-
board, «and the Merchants, Sc. were extreamly kind
— to me.
One Day I being on Shoreas a Linguift, two of
the Z4Zoori/o Merchants came to me, viz. Elhafh Ma-
homet Benino, and LElhafh Abfolom Benino, being
Uncleand Nephew, (the Word Elha/h fignifying as
much as if they had been at AZecca to vilt: the “Tomb
of their Prophet A/ahomet; after which Elha/p is
added to their former Names) defiring me to do
‘them a Favour; I told them I would with all my
Heart, fo far as it might be in my Power 5 which in-
deed, as they had been before fo very kind to me, I
thought I could not in Gratitude refufe, tho’ I muft
— confefs, I thought it to be fomething of another Na-
ture, relating to the Ships Matters, or the. like ;
when they, to my very great Surprize, told me that
I muft go to Santa-Cruz, with fome Letters ; and
as I had given thzu my Word before, to ferve them
‘ allin my Power, [ took the Letters, and after they
had given me Money to defray my Expence on the
Road, I went dire@tly out cof the Town, and as I
travelled very hard, I got that Evening to Sapheey
tho’ indeed I happened to be very ill received there,
very unluckily meeting there A/uley Abdallah’s Mo-
ther, and with hera ftrong Guard, going in Queft
of him, who demanded of me whence I came and
whither I was going to : To which I anfwer’d them,
that I did not know: Then (faid they) what Bu/inefs
have you here? and (as knowing me before) why
don’t you follow your old Mafter! Follow him ! {aid
I, I wifh any of you would be fo good ta diree& me how
to proceed, for I have hitherto travelled many a weary-
fome and dangerous Step in feeking him, and, byall I
bee By: can
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can find, I am fill as far off from my defired End ai
ever: Why (fatd he, ) be is adtually at Teflout,
and thither are we direétly going to him, and yeu fall
alfo go with us, for you feem to be bound another Cour fe:
Really, Gentlemen, faid 1, J cannot imagine what can
induce you to entertain fuch a Notion of me, which
L amwell fatisfied our Royal Mafter weuld not, for he
cannot but remember, when be was firft driven cut by
the Blacks, in favour of Muley Aly, how I join’d him
and his fmall Number at Bolowan, following him and
his hard fortune to Terrident, and brought him back
again tobis former Right and Dignity, and now you
fay’ Lam about to defert him; No, no, Gentlemen,
had I not a fincere Regard for him, what could have
hindred my kind Reception with Mahomet Wolderiva ;
§ hope you think me as good a Soldier as any of you, and
that I dare do as much for my Emperor 5 and all this,
f fay; be very well knows, as having very fufficiently
tried me: Indeed, (faid one of them) you talk very
big 3 and faith (fays another) fo be does ; for my part,
i dont think but what he has Money about him: On
which they felt the Corners of my Blanket, found all
my Money, and took it every Penny from me, tho’
they did not find the Letters ; and then they kept
me under aftrong Gwvard till about Midnight, by
which ‘Time (they having laid out all my Money in
Brandy) they were drunk enough, and all fnoaring
one again{ft another ; when I taking up one of their
Mufket-; Ammunition, and Scymiter, gave them
the Slip, and travelled on all the Remainder of that
Night (avoiding that dangerous Wood) and the next
Day, till I got me to the Province of Shademah;
where, as Thad no Money, I made bold to fell the
Mufket and Ammunition, and after I had refrefhed
my felf, I travelled on, and in four Days more (with-
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out any other Misfortune on the Road) I got with
my Scymiter to Santa Cruz, and fafely delivered the
Letters to Ab/olam Tooby a Moarifo Merchant, as di-
reGted ; during the two Days he was in preparing his
Anfwers, I vifited my old Acquaintance, and fold the
Scymiter, thinking my old Knapfack and a few
worthlefs Medicines to be by far the better Arms
for me ; and finding there no Shipping, I got the
Anfwers to my Letters, fome Bread, and a fmall
Matter of Money, and therewith directly went out
of the Town and back for the Willadea, as faft as I
could; and as it was then full Four o’Clock in the
- Afternoon, I could get no farther that Night than to
the River Zammorot, where I had the Company of
fome Travellers, alfo refting there with their Ca-
mels, and in the Morning I travelled on with them,
and kept them Company as far as Hahah, where I
met with an old Acquaintance, and lodged with him
that Night ; and very early the next Morning I fat
“merrily forwards towards Sega/ule, till about Noon 5
when, having got within half a Mile of it, I fawa
Moor lying quite naked in my Road, with his Throat
‘cut, breathing his laft; which foon damped my
Mirth, and in lefs than half an Hour after [ met the
Murderers, and ftood more than a fair Chance of
fharing the fame Fate, they coming directly upon
me ftripping me quite naked, and taking from me
all but my Life, which I earneftly implored them to
fpare, for that | was a poor miferable Wretch tra-
velling the Country for my Subfiftence, by way of
carrying Letters from one Merchant to another, and
that I had no other way whereby to get my Bread,
and that I fhould think myfelf to be for ever obliged
to them, if they would give me my Letters back a-
gain, for that they could not be of any Service to
them
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them, but to thofe to whom directed, moft likely of
a great deal; which, after much Intreaty they con-
fented to give me, together with my Life, and fent
me away ina miferable Condition, tho’ indeed I ex-
pected a great deal worfe, and therefore I was very _
glad with the Lofs of my Blanket and Knapfack, to
compound for my Life: And now am I travelling
on quite naked for the Mountain [deworfeern, which
indeed was but hurrying myfelf from one bad Evih
into aworfe, for on my gaining about two Thirds
of the Height, Twas at once furrounded by about
6000 Horfe and Foot and ftri@ly examin’d what I
was, whence I came, whither going, my Bufinefs,
éf¢, Ttold them that I was a Letter Carrier, come
from Santa Cruz, and going to the Willadea : Very
likely, faid one of them tothe reft of his Compa-
nions, for I fee the Letters in bis Hand ; but ({aid a-
nother of them) Auw came you to be naked ? I told
him that I happened to meet that Forenoon fome
Gentlemen on the- Road, who had taken my Blan- ~
_ ket from me; however, they were fo civil asto
give me the-Lettersback again: 4s to the Letters,
fuid he, they could be of no Service, but I thank they
were very great Fools they had not cut your Throat, for
in fbort you Dog, you are a Spy, and come to take No-
tice of our Strength, and Afions; alas, Gentlemen,
faid I, Lama moft unfit Perfon for a Spy, neither did
1 ever hear of any fuch Trocps to be gathered bereabout:
and therefore humbly entreated they would be fo
good as to let me go about my Bufinefs ; but initead
cf this, they foon laid hold on my Arms and Throat,
and had there not been one amongft them. who knew
ne formerly at deguinez, they would no Doubt —
have foon hauled me in Piecemeals, but he ftepping
forth, defired them not be in a Hurry to take -away
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‘Life, for that he believed me innocent, and if they
were willing of it, he would carry me for that
Night tohis Tent, and if in the Morning, they
thought me worthy of Death I fhould be executed
in Sight of the Women; which being agreed to, he
f
order’d me to follow him, and conduéted me fafe
home in avery little Time, telling me in a moft
friendly Manner, not to be afraid, for that he would
warrant to prote@ me from their Rage, and that af~
ter Thad refrefhed me by a. good Supper, he would
fet me again at Liberty 3 but bere, faid he, firft take
this old Blanket, which is better than none, and put it
about you; and whilft the Cufeaffoe was making ready
for our Supper, I afked him what thofe People Weres
and what might be their Intentions in gathering into
fuch a Body ? Why really faidhe, fam almoft a-
— foamed to tell you, and much more that I foould happen
tobe among/t them ; for notwithftanding they are my
Countrymen, yet do I think their Actions to be moft un=
warrantable ; however I am conftrained for the pre-
fent to come into the Meafures with them 3 not but
could they be contented to labour but a very little, they
might live very well on the Fruits of it, as having
Land fufficient to employ a far greater Number, allotted
them by old Muley Swine on bis firft fettling them bere;
and us they increafed in Number, fo did he alfo in-
creafe their Territories : pray faid [how long have
they been here, and for what Reafon were they brought;
why, faid he you mu/? know they were no mare at firft
than five hundred of bath Sexes, being Inhabitants of
the Deferts, and nearly allied to one of Muley Swine’s
Wrives, (they being as they term themfelves a better Sort
of Laurbs) and were here brought in the Beginning of
his Reign, behaving in his Life Time tolerably well,
tho’ foon after bis Death, the Breed being very much —
in-
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increafed,’they grew as rebellious as you pleafe, and af~
ter Muley Abdallah’s being driven cut a fecond Time,
L (to foun a greater Evil) join’d them; not that I am
any way related to any of them, I being born in Mequi-
nez, tha’ indeed of Laurbifh Parents ; but the Cuf-
¢affooe being brought before us, he left off that Dif-
courfe, defiring me to fall to, and feed hearty, which
indeed) my Condition confidered) I did and made
a good Supper in little Time ; when he told me,
he doubted fome of his Neighbours would come to
look after me, and therefore he would fhew me out
into the Mountain ; and after giving me all friendly
Inftructions and telling me he would anfwer to his
Comrades for my Efcape, he left me to fhift for my-
felf: I climbed up the Mountain as faft as I could,
however tho’ I] was deftitute of Company then, I
had not gone but very little farther, before I had
Company enough, and indeed more than! defired ;
but on my hearing the Jackals coming yelping se
wards me, I betook myfelf toa Tree ; where I had
not been buta very fhort Time, before my Tree was
furrounded by a vaft Number ‘of wild Beats ; 3 ma-
king a frightful Noife, and fo continued till Day-
break ; however as I knew myfelf to be out of their
reach, I thought myfelf far better off than to be a-
mongft my laft Nights Laurbi/f Gentry ; and as the
Day came on, they got them away to their Dens,
when I came down from the Tree, and -fcrambled up ~
the Mountain as faft asI could, till I gained the
Height and quite down on the other Side, without
feeing any of my laft Nights Companions, fave only
two Tygers, which I pafled | without receiving any
Hurt from them.
Now
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Now am I, to my very great Satisfaction, got
clear out of the Territories of my Leurbifh Ene-
mies, and fafely arrived near the Walls of a well
built Houfe ; when, being exceflive weary, and
very drowzy, I laid me down in the Sun, and foon
fell into a found Sleep, out of which I was as foon
rouzed by the Mafter of the Houfe, afking me wlio
I was, whence I came, and what Bufinefs I had
there; I told him from Santa Cruiz, going to the
Willadea, and that I was obliged all the laft Night
to keep myfelf in a Tree, out of the Reach of the
wild Beafts : Very well, faid he, and a good Shift too 5
then I told him how (at my paffing by fuch a Place
the Evening before) I was furrounded by a vaft Num-
~ ber of armed Men, and that I very narrowly efcaped
with my Life, being really put in a very great Fright:
O, faid he, if that was all, [think you are very well
off, for they are a Pack of the vileft Villains in Bar-
bary, and generally murder all they meet with , [beard
their Fire Yefterday, pray was you there then ? I told
him yes, and through what Means I got out of their
Hands: Get you up out of the Sun, faid he, and lie
you down in that Shed, inthe Shade 5 and when I had
flept a good Napp, he brought me out fome Butter
Milk and Cufcafloe for my Breakfaft ; with which
being wonderfully refrefhed, I (after returning him
‘my moft humble and hearty Thanks) travelled
brifkly on, and got me that Night to the Province
of Shademah, (where, at my going out, I had fold
my Mufket and Ammunition) and here I flept that
Night ; and fetting out thence early in the Morning,
I happened to meet about Ten of the Clock that
Forenoon, at the Foot of the Mountain fibb:l Ned-
deed, or the Mountain of Iron, with five Foot- Pads,
and from whom thinking to get off toa little Houfe
hard
fF ge 3
hard by, Iran with all the Speed I could ; however;
Iwas foon overtaken by a very fpeedy Meffencers
being wounded by a Maufket Shot in my Right
Thigh, pafling between my Legs, and grazing about
balf an Inch within the Flefh, which flackened my
Pace to that Degree, that they were foon up with me,
and gave me the moft fevere dry-beating I had ever
met with before ; though on fome Paflengers coming
by, they made off as faft as they could, and I making
a bad Shift, (which is better than none) got with
much Pain to the Houfe, whereI got me fome Herbs
and ftaunched the Blood, of which I had really loft
a great deal. Here I got a Lodging for that Night,
and fome Cufeafioe for my Supper, and notwith-
ftanding my Wound, flept very well, and early the
next Morning went limping on, and got that Day in
fome Pain to the River Len/ieft, near which ftood a
Caftle belonging to Elelbenbamedufh, one of their
great Men, and where I found refiding a great many
‘fews, from whom I had fome Remedies for my
Wound, and a good Supper, and very civil Enter
tainment for the Night: Early inthe Morning, after
getting a good Breakfaft, and dreffing my Wound, I
travelled flowly on, fill avoiding that dangerous
Wood, and a little before Night got to Saphee, tho’
I did not think it fit to go into the Town, but lodg’d
ina little Houfe without, where I got me fome Cuf-
cafloe amongit the Family for my Supper, and in a
very little ‘Time after I had filled my Belly, I lay me
down to my Reft ; but never was I more hurried by
Dreams, ashow I fhould be at the Wlladea, where
methought I happened to meet with a Commander
of a Vefiel, and who, though I had never feen him
before, yet did he in a moft Chriftian-like and cour-
teous Manner offer (without my afking him) to carry
me¢
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ee ae a Oe ie ha An eC ee oe OD a
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me of with him at all Hazards; which, at my In
-fervals from Slumber, I could not all that Night put
out of my Head, but what it muft be fomewhat
more than imaginary, for tomy Mind I plainly faw
him, converfed with him, and found him in every
Point to be a compleat Man; and getting up very
early, I travelled flowly on till about Noon, when [
met a fingle Afoor, and not at all liking his Coun-
tenance, as fuppofing him-(as indeed he really
was) one of their Foot-Pads, I began to confider
with myfelf how to behave to him, and he feeing me
limping, gave him no Doubt the greater Affurance 5
therefore, coming dire€tly to me with a Piftol cock’d
in his Hand, and prefenting it clofe to my Breait, he
in an infolent Manner demanded what I had about
me ; I told him I had nothing that was worth his Ac-
ceptance, unlefs he would be pleafed to accept of
my Blanket: Then you Dog, faid he, why don’t you
take it off ? That, Sir, faid I, is faon done, flipping it
dire@tly off my Shoulders, and in a feeming Fright
prefenting it into his Hand, andhe not being very
_ ready to take hold on it, I threw it at once over his
Head, and foon gave him to underftand that I wasa
true Corni/oman ; for notwithftanding my Wound,
I clafped my Right Arm about his Neck, ffuck to
him with my lame Hip, and foon had him on his
Back on the Ground, when I inftantly decided the
Difpute who fhould have my old Blanket ; in fhort,
as he had fo much Mind to it, I left it for him, taking
his, and after giving him a farewell Pounce, went off
with his Piftol and Ammunition, and got that Night
into the Middle of the Wood, and lodged in the
‘fame Tent I formerly did at my firft going that Way
with the A/ulatto, and where I was again very kind-
ly entertained, infomuch that I thought myfelf
7 obliged
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obliged to make a Prefent to mine Hoft of the Pif-
tol, of which he was not a little proud, and very
early inthe Morning provided fome Cufca/fooe for
my Breakfaft ; after which I fet merrily forward,
and about Noon got well to the Willadea, and fafely
delivered my Merchants the Anfwers to their Let-
ters; and before I had the Power to give them an
Account of my miferable Journey, Iam hurried by
the Merchants on board a Genoc/e Brig, telling me
that bfolom Candeele was then in the Town, and
fhould he happen to fee me, he would no Doubt car-
ry me with him: This Brig was firft Com-
manded by Capt. Wil/on, an Engli/bman, (who was
about three Months before unfortunately drowned
at Saphee) and then by a Sweed his chief Mate,
with whom, as the Brig was there before I went to
Santa Cruz with the Letters, I was before well ac-
quainted, and with the reft of the Crew, fo I went
direGly on board, and was very courteoufly received
by them, telling me that they were very glad to fee
me come back well, and that they had been at a
very great Lofs, during my Abfence, for a Linguift,
afking me if I had dined, and if I would eat any
Mullets : Yes, faid 1, with all my Heart ; when they
direétly ordered the Cook to fry fome for me, and —
whilft they were frying, I afk’d the Mate what Snow
that was to Windward of us ; he told me one Cap
“tain Toobin, of Dublin, who came in about four Days
before, and that he had met with a great deal of
‘Trouble by Way of the M/oori/h Merchants, on Ac-
count of his Freight: Indeed ! faid I, pray what
Manner of a Man is he ¢ Why really faid'he, @ very
jelly well difcourfed Man, fo far as I haveyet feen
of him: Pray (faid 1) is be a@ Man of apretty big
Stature ? Yes, faid he, be isa very lufty Man: Well,
| faid
c gr ]
faid I, Lwifh I eould fee him : Why (faid he) that
you may foondo, for he ts as wellas usin a very great
Strait for a Linguift ; when, on the Cook’s telling,
us that the Fifh were ready, we went into the Cab-
bin to Dinner, and before we had finifhed, Captain
Yoobin came on board, and the Moment I faw him,
I was thoroughly perfuaded with myfelf that he was
actually the fame that I had fo lately feen in my
Dream at Saphee, and foon found him to be under
fome Diftrefs; and on his underftanding me to be
an Englifbman, he afked me if I. would go with him
on board his Ship ; I told him, Yes (if he thought I
might be of any Service to him there) with all my
Heart ; fo I ftepped into the Boat along with him,
and we were foon on board, carrying me directly
into his Cabbin, and after drinking a chearing Cup of
Wine, he afk’d me how longI had been in Barbary ;
i told him, ever fince the Commencement of the
twelfth Year of my Age, it being then the Twenty- .
third Year of my Captivity: Alas ! poor Man, {aid
he, along Captivity indeed ! but could not you in all
this Time find Means to efcape ? I told him I had
often endeavoured it, even to the very great Hazard
of my Life, but I was always fo unhappy to be inter
cepted, telling him of my feveral Difappointments
that Way, and what Difficulties and Dangers I had
undergone to get thither, and that though I hanged
off and onat Santa Cruz for three or four Months,
and there were during that Time feveral Engli/b
Veffels, yet could not I meet with any fo Chriftian-
like Commander, as to carry me off with him : Vo /
faid he, then they were a Parcel of brutifh Fellows ;
and I tell you, for your Comfort, that you have met
avith a Chriftian at la/?, and here’s my Hand (giving
it into mine) te ferve you all in my Power, therefore
. don’t
yt) ae
don’t defpair, for I am fully determined to carry you
with me, even tothe Hazard of my Life, and be the
Confequence what it will, This he {poke with fo
much Sincerity of Heart, and tender Feeling of my
fad Cafe, that he could not forbéar weeping ; which
you may fuppofe raifed my Joy tothat Degree at his
fo tender Behaviour, that I could not forbear to keep
him Company.
Tuvus far is my Dream come to pafs, the Cap-
| tain telling me further, that if I wasany ways appre-
henfive of the leaft Danger of my appearing in pub-
lick, he would keep me clofeon board the Veflel: I
told him that I was at a Lofsin what Terms to ex-
prefs my Gratitude ; however, I did not doubt but
that Time might put it in my Power to make him
fome Recompence ; but as I was then in more than
ordinary Favour with the Merchants, I thought there _
would be no Occafion for my keeping myfelf clofe ;
however, I would be frequently with him on board,
and do him by Way of Linguift all the moft faithful _
Services and good Offices in my. Power ; for which, —
indeed, he had an Occafion very often after, for he
had, as it were, but juft mentioned his Merchant,
(who he faid ow’d him four hundred Ducats for
Freight, and that he was under no little Fear of
lofing it, for that he did not like his frequent put-offs)
but the Boy came down, and told the Captain he was _
coming on board ; at which he ftepp’d upon the
Deck, and received him at the Ship’s Side 3 and he ©~
feeming to be in a very gaeat Fright and Hurry, or-
dered me to tell the Captain the following terrifying
Lye, viz. That an Order was juft then come from
Muley Abdallah, by Way of Torbohallufab, the Go-
vernor
Fa ana BN bs patho De PSA ye ar tos
Bare Se Nor <i" a ea
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vernor of Ducullah, to feize all the Chriftian Vel=
fels, to make Slaves of the Men, and to apply all
their Cargoes to his Property ; therefore he fhould get.
the Veffe] in Readinefs as {oon as_poffibly he could,
rand affift him.allin his Power in carrying off Part of.
the. Corn then on board the Gewoe/e Briz, which was
fo deeply laden, that fhe drew more. Water than
was on the Bar to carry her over ; but by taking out
one half of it, they might both get over very well»
All. which I faithfully told him in Lugii/o, defiring
him. not to vex himfelf at it, for that I believed it ta
bea Trick, only to hurry him away, and cheat him
mof his Freight ; however, he directly ordered all.
ands at Work, and early the fecond following
[Morning got along-fide of the Brig, and that Day
ttook in half her Lading, with fome more from the
Shore, which belonged to other Proprietors, and
awl’d down the next Morning fo faft as we could ;
rand as the Brig was before us, fhe got well over the,
HBar, and clear off, as indeed we might alfo have
idone, had not the Proprietors of the Corn ttopp’d
us, and kept us there fome ‘Time.at an Anchor ; du-
rring which there came ona violent Storm, which
drove our Ship, Anchor and all, quite back again
jinto her old Birth, where we were again more fe-
urely moored ; and then I was foon confirmed in
rmy Opinion of the Merchant’s Villainy, and that he
rnot only intended to cheat the Captain of his former
reight, but to run further into his Debt, and cheat
the Proprietors of their Corn ; for we had but juft
«done our Bufinefs in fecuring the Veflel, before our
proguifh Merchant came on board, ordering me to
ttell the Captain, that he and fome more of his Com-
rades were going to vifit the Governor of Ducullah,
ito know the Truth of this Report, and that if the
G B Cap-
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Captain would fpare him an Englifp Piftol, he knew *
it would be to the Governor of all Things the moft:
acceptable Prefent ; therefore, faid he, pray aff him 3°
which I did, and it was as foon granted, and he im-
mediately departed with it, and (as we had after
very good Reafon to believe) went to the Governor ;
and though it was only one Day’s Journey, we never
faw nor heard of him after, no further than in a fham
Way ; for the fecond following Day came the Go-
vernor of Ducullah, and with him four hundred
armed Men, in feeming-wife to enquire after him,
they having no Doubt agreed together before to
make Ufe of Muley Abdallah’s Name, the better to
carry on their fo villainous Defigns ; and left the
then Governor of /¥illadea might be in any wife an
Obftacle to them, he fent his Brother the Day before
to fecure him, and for Male Practices to bring him
to Ducullah before him; and on his carrying him
thither, he met the Governor, his Brother, on the
Road, who brought him back again, and confined
him clofe Prifoner, under Pretence of his fuffering
three Sail of Ships belonging to the Chri/fians to de-
part without his Permiffion ; he then commanded
his Brother, with a few more, on board our Veffe),
where our Captain made him very welcome, and he
fupp’d, and took up his Quarters there all Night,
though indeed he had his Supper brought from the
Shore, which was a very large Bowl of Cufcafloe,
with half aSheep boiled to Rags on the Top of it, —
and the other half roafted, brought on a huge long
wooden Spit on a AZoor’s Shoulder; and though
they were but three that fat at Supper, yet did our
Captain declare that he had never feen fo much eaten
at one Meal before by twenty Men, though poor
Man, as to hisown Part (as not at all liking their -
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foul-and ravenous Way of eating) he did not eat
any ; however, [had a good Piece of the Meat and
fome Cufcaffoe fent me out, which I and my Com-
-rades foon-difpatched : As foon as the A@ors had
_fupped, I-was ordered into the Cabbin, and afked. by
‘the Governior’s Brother, how I came there, and what
was my Bufinefs ; and having an Anfwer ready for
him at my Tongue’s End, I told him that I had been
for fome Months paft travelling up and down the
Country, expofed to many Dangers, and very great
Want, in feeking Aduley Abdallah, and all to no Pur-
pofe ; for that before I got thither, I could hear no-
thing of him ; however, I was then well fatisfied |
that I might very likely accomplifh my fo long fruf-
‘trated Defires in a very little Time, and therefore I
was very glad I had come fo far ; and as foon as [
had gathered a little Strength after my late Hardthips,
I was fully determined to proceed further, and I
hoped to better Purpofe ; that the Merchants. there,
chad been very kind to me, encouraging me all in
their Power, in Way. of a Linguift, whereby I got
my Subfiftence, to which End I was then on board
that Vefkl : Well, faid he, our People are going ta
him in a very little Time with their Prefents, and then
you may alfo go with them : Indeed, Sir, faid 1, that
may fave mea great deal of Trouble, for I have been
almoft ever fince his laft Abfence from Mequinez
roaming upand down the Country in feeking and en-
quiring after him, expofed to many Hazards, and all
(till I came hither ) to no Purpofe : At which he feem'd |
‘to pity me, being with my Story very well fatished :
After he had drank about a Gallon of Tea, he faid _
himfelf down to Reft for that Night, and getting up
‘early inthe Morning, our People put him afhore in
sour Boat; and after he had been fome Time with
se 2 the
Us ep 9?
the Governor, his Brother, he returned again with |
him to the Water-fide, bringing with them two hun-
dred armed Men, peremptorily requiring Captain
Toobin and I to come directly on Shore before him :
‘Then I told the Captain the Merchant’s Rogueries
would foon appear, and that I knew as well as any of
them ali, an #uglifh Piftol to be an extraordinary
Prefent amongft them, and therefore I thought it not
amifs to take one with us as_a Prefent tothe Gover-
nor, and if we found him not worthy of it, we could
but bring it back with us again: That, my Friend,
faid he, 7s what I would do with all my Heart, was f
_ fure Icould be permitted to fend a Brace of Bullets
out of it through bis Brains; however, he gave me
one, which I conveyed clofe under my Blanket, and
then we went directly on Shore ; the Governor afk-
ing where was his Linguift, and his Brother pointing
at me, all the Myftery was dire&ly unfolded, he or~
dering metotell the Captain that he would not have
him to be under the leaft Apprehenfion of Danger,
for that his Orders from J4uley Abdallah were only
to take the Effects out of the Ships, and all the
Chrifiians on Shore, inorder to be fentto him, and
afterwards to fend the Ships by Aor) Sailors'to
Saphee, there to be ripped up: All which I accord-
ingly told him: 4 very extraordinary Favour indeed, —
faidhe ! Pray afk him if he has any Orders from’
Muley Abdallah for fo doing: He told me Yes:
Then (faid 1) the Captain defires you will let bim fee
it, or at leaft that you will read it ; which indeed he
did directly, and it was according to its true Inter-
pretation in Engli/b, after the following Manner :
Alcaide —
LE 357. ¥ | ee
Alcaide Torbohallufah, my trufly and well-efteemed
Governor of Ducullah. ;
tc N the Complaint of fome of my loyal Sub-
jects lately laid before me, relating to five
‘¢ Sail of Sadleeteens now lading Corn at the Willa~
“dea to be carried either to Salee or Mammora,
<¢ for the Benefit of the black Army, my utter Ene-
*¢ mies ; you are therefore on receiving this my pe-
** remptory Order. for the preventing all future A-
‘s bufes of that Nature, directly to take all the faid
«© Vefels and Cargoes into your Cuftody, fend all
“< the Chriftians to me, referve the feveral Cargoes
*¢ to my proper Ufe, and fend all the Ships by AZsorifh
‘¢ Sailors as foon.as you can to Saphee, there to be
<¢ ripped up ; and for fo doing, this fhall be your
<< Warrant. Muley Abdallah Wooldthe Kunnateer
Binthebucker 3; in LEnglifh, a Slave to God and
Son of Kunnateer Binthebucker, (who was his Mo-
ther.
AFTER this Letter was read, and I had faithfully
told its Contents to the Captain I told the Governor,
that his Majefty had not mentioned any Thing that
thofe Veffels were freighted by the Salleeteens, or that
they were Engli/h, and that he very well knew that
ever fince the laft Truce, and efpecially fince his laft
Exile, he and his few Friends had Relief from them,
and which if they had not, they mutt in all likeli-
hood have been ftarved long ago, and therefore fhould
they then go about to treat the Englifb after that
Manner, it would be a Means of deterring all others
of that Nation from coming thither for the future,
and which if they fhould do, before they had better
, me
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informed him concerning the Truth of this’ Affair,
he would no Doubt be very angry with the Tran-
factors of it, and in all likelyhood make them anfwer
for it with the Lofs of their: Heads, which put the
Governor to a Stand, and then his Brother told him
that he thought it very likely to be true, for
that as I had been brought up with AZuley Abdallah
froma Child, I therefore knew his Temper, fo that
he would have him to take great Care how ,he acted
therein, at which he ordered the Captain to go again
on Board, and that he would follow him ina very —
little Time with a few ofhis Friends to give him a
Vifit; at which I came clofe to him, and gave him the
Piftol, telling him that the Captain had ordered me
to give it him in his Name, as a Prefent ; and to tell
him, that he had referved for him on board the Vef-—
fel two Bottles of fuperfine Engli/b Powder : Indeed !
faid he, pray then let him keep it from the Knowledge
of the Friends coming with me, or very likely they will
defire to come in for their Shares; and juft as I was
{tepping into the Boat, to be going off, Stay, faid he,
let the Gaptain go, and you foall follow him in a very
little Time, for I have. ordered a Couple of Sheep for
him: and whilft they were tringing tothe Wa-
ter Side, he afk’d me if I knew any Thing of a Skin
of Saffron to be on board ; I told him No, for that [
had never feen nor heard of any fuch Thing: Pri-
thee, faid he, do me the Favour to enquire among ft the
Ship’s Company, after the moft fecret Manner you caity
and let me know it when Icomeon board: That, Sir,
faid I, you may depend on; and the Sheep being
brought by this Time to the Water Side, Here,
faid he, Jay bold on them, and carry them to the Captain
with my Service, and tell him that I foall be very glad
if be thinks them worth his Acceptance,and alfo sy if
| ully
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fully intend, as I told him juft now, to some off to fee
_ bim in the Afternoon; and then (as the Saffron was
running in’ my Mind) I hailed the Boat, andiwas
_ aboard with the Sheep in avery little Time, and de-
livered them with my Meflage tothe Captain ; and
then I told him how inquifitive the Governor had
been with me, concerning fome Saffron he
fhould have then on board: What, in the Name of
God, faid he, are they about to do by me now ? That,
indeed, faid I, 7 cannot tell, but that he made fuch
Enquiry, is moft certoin: At which the Captain
knocks in the Head of alittle Cagg, put fomething
into it, headed it up again, and put it into the Bot-
tom of the Flefh Cafk, laying all the Meat upon it,
and the Pork in particular at the Top ; and in a very
little Time after the Governor came on board with
twelve of his AZoori/h Friends, the Captain fhewing
him dire@tly inte the Cabbin, where I was foom call’d
as an Interpreter ; and the firft Queftion he afk’d me
was, if Ihad done as I promifed him; I told him
Yes, and that I could not get Intelligence of
any fuch Thing, and that he muft be certainly im-
pofedon : Well, {aid he, as to that, it will foon ap-
pear; and then he ordered me again upon Deck, to
difcourfe his Friends ; and the firft Queftion they
ak’d me was, if I could tellof any Chefts of loofe
Cloaths, or any ‘Fhing elfe belonging to the Mer-
chants, to be on board ; I told them No, for that I
had never heard of any fuch Thing: Then Captain
Toobin came upon Deck. to acquaint them that the
Governor wanted their Company downto drink a
Cup of Tea in the Cabbin with him. and which, in-
deed, he was drinking ; however, he ordered. for
thofe inquifitive Gentry a fufficient Quantity of
ftrong Malaga Wine to be made very hot, well fu-
gared,
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guarded, and brought in a Tea-Kettle; when they
feemed to fip on at firft, as if they did not know
what it was, but in a very little Time they began to
like it, and. fwallowed it down as Infants do their
Nurfe’s Milk ; fo that in an Hour’s Time, or there-
about, they were all of them as merry as you pleafe :
Then the Governor took his Leave taking with him
his Powder and his merry Companions: By the
‘Time they were got to the Shore, the Tea operated
into their Noddles to that Degree, that they were all
(the Governor only excepted) together by the Ears,
and there was really between them avery hot Com-
bat, which foon made bloody Work, they flourifh-
ing their Scimiters, and cutting one another very fe-
verely which the Captain aAd I faw from the Veflel :
After they had cut one another very heartily, and’
very much blunted and gapp’d their Scimiters, they
were contented on all Sides to give out; when one
of them came again on board of our Veflel, with
two of their Scimiters, ftaring like a wild Bullock,
and reeling like a light Ship in a great Sea, defiring
me as well as he could fpeak, to grind them for
him : Yes, Sir, faid I, Twill with all my Heart ; and
which I didto a very good Edge indeed ; but, pray
Sir, faid], how fell you out ? [tis a great Pity but
what you hall ground your Swords before you went
afpare: What ? faid he; La/k you Sir, faid 1, how
you fell out : Indeed (faid he) { cannot tell you, nor |
as I believe, none of us all; and then he was again
handed ‘into the Boat, and put on Shore with his
Scimiters. In a very little Time after came off
the Governor of Ducullah’s Brother-in- Law, bring-
ing with him Sidebenraudee, the new Governor of
Witladea, to be kept there as a Prifoner, in order to
prevent his running away, for that he had fuffered
the
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| the Genoefe Brig to fail, contrary to Order, faying te
mein the Moori/fh Language, Tollabfce haddah Cor-
ran Aftab Loggadah Shaugh ; in Englifh, Take Care
of this Cuckold till To-morrow Morning ; fo we
put him into the Ship’s Hold, and there lodged him
on a Piece of Matting, on the Corn; and the next
Morning he was again ordered on Shore, aboard
again at Night, and the next Morning on Shore
again; when they finding the Bait would not take,
he wasagain fet at Liberty, all this being no more
than to try Captain Zoobin’s Fidelity ; for, in fhort,
had he fuffered him to make an Efcape, they would
no Doubt have made a great Handle of it, and it
would have been very much to his Prejudice ; howe
ever, they were difappointed of their Aim, and there-
fore, without forming any other Defigns of that Nae
ture, they are now refolved to be more open and
bare-faced, the Governor of Ducullah’s Brother, and
with him thirty Men in two Boats, coming the next
Morning, requiring the Captain to fet his Men at
Work in hoifting out the Corn ; on which the Cap-
tain ordered me to afk him if he had any Orders from
the Owners ; he told him No: Then ({aid the Cap-
tain) [will not give my Confent to let any of it go5
but if they would do it after a forceable Manner, it
was what he could not help, but as for any of his Men,
they fhould not heift cut one Grain of it, Sor that he
very plainly perceived it was no more than Surnifbing
the Merchants with a plaufible Pretence to cheat hime
of bis Freight : At which they offered to ufe him,
‘very rudely ; but he bravely ftood his Ground, and
told them, that unlefs they could produce fuch am
“Order, he would not meddle init ; en which the
.Adoors broke open the Hatches, and fell to Work,
and then the Skin of Saffron came again to be ea-
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enquired after 3 and as they could not find it amhongf
the Corn, as they expected, they rummaged the
Ship very ftri€tly ; and when they came to the Flefh
“Tub, and had taken off the Cover, and faw the Pork,
they fell a fpauling and fpitting, fhrinking’ up their
Faces, and {wearing that there was nothing in that
"Tub but a falted Deviz, and ran from it as if the ©
Devit had been in it indeed ; and notwithftanding
they could not find the Saffron, they found the Corn,
and carried it all off that Day. without leaving us any
for the Ship’s Ufe.
Now have wean empty Ship, no Merchant to
talk with, and therefore no further Bufinefs for me
by Way of an Interpreter ; fo that I thought myfelf
obliged to a&t very cautioufly, and to expofe myfelf
to the View of the A/oors as feldom as poffible ;
though at the Requeft of the Captain, I went to the
AGovernor of Ducullah, to tell him that all the Ship’s
Corn, was taken out and carried away by his Bro-
ther, without paying one Penny Freight ; and then I
told him alfo, that the Captain and his People were
under very great Diftrefs for Provifion, having nothing
_on board but a Tub of Pork, which was fo very
fat, that they could not eat it without Bread:
Why, {aid he, do you eat Pork ? J eat it, faid1, Fahf
(fhrinking up my Face) however, if I did, I foould
not eat wery much of their's, they having very little
further Bujfine/s for me; but really Sir, faid I, they
are under very great Difire[s, andif you do not fend
them fome Relief very fpeedily, they muft ftarve of
Courfe, for they have no Money nor Credit ; infomuch,
that L am very aprrebenfive of Infing my little Broker-
age: On which he fent the Captain aboard two
Bags of Wheat, containing about a Quarter or eight.
~ Buthels, and the next Day four Bags more, and one
Bag
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Bag of Beans 3 which was all we could get from him’
And our Captain having (on their taking out the
Corn) fent a Letter by a Afoor to Monfieur Pedre
Pollee, at Saphee, to acquaint him of this hard Ufagey
and to defire his Anfwer how to behave under it,
and Muley Abdailah’s Wiother being then there, he
direQtly applied to her 3 and, in Confideration of a
Sum of Money given her, he obtained her Order to
the Governor of Ducullab, that on the Ships Mafters
fending each of them a Man to Saphee, as Hoftages,
for the better Security of each of them paying her
forty Ducats, to let the Ships go, and to haften with
them thither as faft as they could, where they fhould
be new freighted ; which was to the Captain of 2
Genoefe Tartan then there (as he had Freight in be=
fore for another Port) very heavy News, for that he
could not by anyMeans ftop at Saphee, neither fhould
he be able to produce the forty Ducats, and there-
fore he earneftly defired that Captain Toobin would
pay it for him, which he would repay him at Sallee,
whither he faid he was obliged to go, and for which
he would then give him his promiflory Obligations
which was complied with, the Obligation given, and
one of our People fent away by Land, but none
from the Genoe/e; but, on my telling the Governor
what he had done, and that Captain Yoobz# had given
Ais. Henour to pay forty Ducats for him, te which
_ End he had fent one of his People as a Pledge before
him, the Tartan was parew to fail with us ; and J
going privately aboard inthe Night, we fet Sail tos
gether, the Genvcefe for Sallee, and us for Saphees
where we found our Hoftage: During the Time of
our Stay there, I was kept clofe aboard ; however, [
had a faithful Account every Night of what was a&t.
ing on Shore, as how we were about to takein a
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pew Freight for Sa/iee, how that our Man was, on
Captain Toobin’s paying the Money for him and the
Genoefe, again at Liberty ; and then our Cargo was
fent off, fuch as feveral Bales of Bardary Skins, Salt
Petre, and in Skins a good Quantity of Argon Oil.
- One Evening our Captain came on board, and
took me into his Cabbin with him, telling me, poor
Man, ina very troubled Manner, though I dare fay
with a great deal of Sincerity, that Monfteur Pedro
‘Pollee had told him that I was atually on board of
his Ship ; therefore, for Goa’s Sake, ‘Tom, take Care
that you don’t let any of the Moors fee your Face, for
told him that you were nat with me, and that Lwon-.
dered how any one could invent fo bafe a Lye; that in-
deed you was with me inthe Willadea, and generall
on board my Ship as a Linguift : Then, Captain, (faid
he) there lies the Mifiake ; fo that I hope he is again —
by this Time out of Mind of it 5 however, I fay, be
fure to keep yourfelf clofe, and I hope to be going hence
an a very little Time.
The next Morning after this Difcourfe, came into —
the Road a DutchFrigat of twenty Guns, whodropp’d
ther Anchor, hoifted Dutch Colours, and a Flag of
‘Truce, and fired a Gun with a Signal for a Boat to
come off; however, as none of the Afcors would
venture to truft him, Captain Toobin went off, and —
found the Commander to be one of his old very in- |
timate Acquaintance, and brought afhore his Letters _
to Elbafh Mahomet Wadnoonee, the Governor of Sa- —
‘phee, relating ‘to the Releafement of fome Dutch —
Prifoners lately taken out of another Dutch Ship 5 to
which the Captain was anfwered, that they were then
up in the Mountains with Aduley Abdallah, and that —
they knew not how to get at them ; on which the ©
“Duich Skipper, feeing he could not get any better
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Ratisfation, failed with us the third following Day,
him to Markadore, on the Wreck of a Portuguezeé
Ship, bound Home from the Brazils, taken by the
| Argaircens, and by them caft away a little to the
| Northward of that Port, and we for Sallee ; where
we beat up in thirteen Days, and came to an Anchor
in the Road, with thirteen MJosrifb Paflengers, and
three Jews on boards being moft of them concerned
in the Cargo, with whom I foon got a very intimate
Acquaintance, telling them that Captain Toobin had,
through very much Intreaty, on Account of my
promifing him to be his Linguift, been fo very good
as to give me my Paflage with them ; and then they
defired me to be a faithful Linguift for them alfo :
I told them I would with all my Heart, if my Buf
nefs would permit me to remain at Sallee fo long, in-
fomuch that I really believe they took me for their
Friend in good Earneft, and that they were not itt
the leaft anprehenfive of my Intentions.
HERE we found the Genoefe Tartan 5 arid Cap- |
tain Zocbin dered me to ftep into our Boat, and go
aboard her with his Service to the Captain, anc to
defire him to come with me on board his Snow, for
that as his People were then very bufy in taking out
the Cargo, he could not by any Means come to him,
and to tell him he had compleated his Affair with the
Governor at Saphee, for which he had brought
_with him proper Vouchers 5 but he being then on
“Shore at Sadie, I could not fpeak with him; how-.
ever, his Mate told me that he had met with a great
deal of Trouble with his Merchants on Account of
his Freight, and that he was very likely to meet with
a great deal more 3 therefore (faid he) tell your Cap-
tain to take a great deal of Care how he behaves with
his, for foould they once get him over the Bar, they
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wll no Doubt ufe him after the like Manner. AM
which | faithfully carried back, and then Captain
Zocbin fent a Letter by one of his Paffengers going
afhore to an Jrifh Merchant, refiding at Sallee, with
the Genvoefe’s Promiflory Obligation, and the Gover-
nor of Saphee’s Vouchers inclofed, to demand of Cap-
tain Baptifia, the Commander of the Genoe/e Var-
tan, on his Sight thereof, forty Ducats to his proper
Ufe and Account; andon his Payment thereof, to
give him up his Obligation ; and alfo another Letter
inclofed to Baptiffa for his fo doing : And though he,
on his receiving this Order in the Morning, acknow-
Jedged the Debt, and promifed to pay the Money,
yet did he in the Afternoon“azain deny it; upon
which he was feeured under fafe Cuftody, and not
permitted to go on beard; and then he confeffed the
Debt again, and that he would go directly on board
and deliver to the Vaiue thereof in Goods as a
Pledge, till fueh Time as he got to Giéraltar, and
then he would again redeem it; to which the Cap-
tain’s Friend sanfwered him, that as he had behaved
fo very much like a Knave, he would not fuffer him
to ftir thence, till fuch Time as he had paid the Mo-
ney: But Baptiffa finding Means to efcape, got off
toa AMfoorifo Jultice, fwore the Debt quite off, and
had a Pafs from him to go aboard his own Veflel, and
which he forthwith did, and direétly weighed his An-
chors, and fet Sail as faft ashe coukd. All which _
Captain Toobin feeing, and he having an Account
from his Friend haw much like a Villain he had be-
haved, defired me to go aboard him, and once more
to demand the Money of him; and in cafe he {till
perfifted in not paying it, to cut off his Boat, and
bring her to him: On which, I taking with me fe-
Ven other Hands, eight Mufkets, and as many Sci-
miters,
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Scimitefs, went in our Boat to the Veffel’s Side, and
delivered my Meflage ; to which Bapti/ta anfwered,
that the Money was fafe; which. was all I could
- get from him : Then I ordered one of our Hands te
ftep into his Boat, cut her off with his Scimiter, and
let her fall aftern ; on which, feveral A¢rgazrecn Mer-
chants being then on board, they having chiefly
- freighted her, ftood up together with the Genvefe
Sailors, the former with Stones, and the latter with
Mufkets in their Hands, highly threatening.us that _
in Cafe we did not bring the Boat on board again di-
reétly, they would knock us all on the Head; at
which we alfo ftood up with our Mufkets ready at
our Shoulders, prefenting the Muzzles directly at
them ; at Sight of which they all fell flat on theirs
Bellies upon the Deck, and notwithitanding they
were more than double our Number, and in clofe
Quarters, yet did we notwithftanding bring the Boat
guite off, without any of them daring fo much as to
fire one Shot at us 3 but we fafely brought her to
Captain Toobin’s Snow : It coming towards the Eve-
ning, and fome odd Things belonging tothe Cargo
being ftill on board, I ( as a Blind ) ftepp’d into
a Boat which was along-fide, wherein were feveral
of the Moori/f> Merchants, juft putting off for the
Shore, in feerning-wife to go with them ; and when
the Merchants afk’d me where I was going to, I told
them firft for Sallee, and if I cowld not there better
myfelf, any where elfe in the Country, where I
thought I might : //y, faid one of them, J hope
you will not leave us, till fuch Time as we have taken
out the fmall Matters we bave fill remaining on board
of the Cargo, and if you will remain aboard the Ship
or the Night, you fball be well rewarded for your
Trouble: Why, laid 1, thought the Carga had been all
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wut: No, faid he, and our Nephews and two Jews are
Still on board; and you will oblize us, if you will keep —
them Company: Very well Gentlemen, faid I, if you
think I may there be of any further Service to you, £
will go aboard again, and remain with them there for
the Night with all my Heart : So I ftepp’d with a
great deal of Pleafure into the Slip again, at which
the Nephews {who were by their Uncle’s Orders to
yemain there for the Night with me} feem’dto be
very glad: Soon after the Adcsr7/> Boat was gone
‘with the Merchants, the Captain tipp’d me the
Wink to follow him into the Cabbin; and after he
had fhut the Door clofe upon us, he began to difcourfe
me after the following Manner:—Now Tom, faid
he, you and I muft ferioufly confult together, how £
aught to at in this troublefome Affair; for thefe
Moorifh Merchants are, as fure as Death, about te
play the Old One’s Game with me, and cheat me of my
Fy eight 3 for on my demanding it according to the Con=
tents of my Charter Part, whieh actually runs, and
plainly fpecifies, that my Freight fhould be every Penny
paid down at the Maft, before they took out any of the
Cargo; for as I had been fo fadly bit by the former
Viigins, I thought it very natural for a burnt Child
to dread the Fire, and therefore I would nat before
they bad thus covenantid, take it in; theugh I now
plainly fee, to my very great Diffatisfaction, it had
been all as well left alone ; for to be plain with you,
4 know not whether their Honour or Bonds are the beft,
they being both, with Men of their Principle, (where
wo Fuftice is to be had) very paultry, and not worth one
of their Blankeels ; therefore, happy are they who are
got quite out of their Country, and out of their Hands,
This Tom, you may plainly fee, as well as myfelf, and
on my vefufing to let any of the Cargo go, aie |
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Zhey had performed their Covenant: You alfo faw hori
they broke open. my Hatches, went into the Hold, and
Carried off almoft all of it by Force: Why, Sir, faid
I, don’t you remember that on ibeir taking out the Skins
of Oil, one of them proving faulty, had leaked mofi of
it out ? Yes, faid he, What of that, pray? Woy, Sir,
| faid I, one of the Moors told another that it muf? be
your Fault, and that you fhould anfwer for st 3 to
which the other replied, that when they had taken out
all the Cargo, the Captain would no Doubt be glad to
come afore for his Freight, and then they would ma-
nage him well enough: Indeed, faid he, that, Tom,
ssjuft as I expeéted , though, between you and I, it és
L hope, what will never be in their Power ; not but I
am thoroughly perfuaded with myfelf, fhould they once
| but get me into their Clutches, they would make Slaves
| of us all, and feize my Vefjel, and all I have in it, to
their own vile Ufes; which, if I can avoid, foall ne-
ver be in their Power ; therefore, YOM, what do you
think of our putting to all for all, and going to Sea
«this very Night ? Indeed, dir, faid 1, tf you flay here
but a very little longer, it will be entirely out of your
Power : And will you fland by me ? faid he: Yes,
| Sir, faid I, to the laf? Drop of my Blood : Then (faid
he) what fhill we do with the five Moors and the two
Jews, amarry’d Woman of about twenty one Years of
Age, and a young Man of about feventeen? As to
that, Sir, faid 1, [would not have you to be under any
the leaft Concern: for I will engage only by myfelf to
fecure them, fo as you and your People fhall have no
more to do than to weigh the Anchors, trim the Sails
and manage the Ship: Well then, Tom, faid he, I
will alfo firft confult my Men and after telling them —
the Danger that he thought himfelf and all of them
in he propofed his Intentions to them, which they
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vety well approved of, andas readily came into, and
fell to confulting the Means without any Lofs of
Time; and it was by all agreed onto weigh our
Anchors at high Water, and pufh our Fortunes: As
we knew the Tide would fuit our Purpofe about Ten
at Night, we got our Supper overin Seafon, and
every one (exceptthe Watch for the Night) feem-
ingly to their Reft, lodging the five Adsors (for our
better fecuring them) in the Hold, and the two Fews
inthe Steerage: And when our appointed Time
was come, and our Menall ready to weigh the An-
chors, and trim the Sails, Captain Yaobin went to
the Helm, and I to my Poft at the Hatch-Way,
armed with a Scimiter, and two Pair of Piftols ;
and hauling in the Cables, tho” with as little Noife as
poffible, the Aoors were in a very great Hurryy
calling aloud to know what we weredoing: Doings
faid I, about ta new moor the Veffele New moor berg
faid they, what Occafien of that, when foe wasin a
wery good Birth befere; therefore we rather think you
Gre about te run away with her, and to carry us with
yeu, endeavouring to get themfelves upon Deck, ©
when I told them to fing fmall, and that if any of
them all offer’d the leaft Refiftance, or prefumed to
ftir from the Place he was then in, or to make the
leaft Noife, I would direGly fhoot him ! therefore,
faid I, take hold of the Cable’s End, and handfamely
coil it away ; and which I compell’d them to do, tho”
no Doubt fore againft their Inclinations, telling them
that they fhould not be under the leaft Concern or
fear of Danger, for that if they proved conformable
to what they were commanded, I would dare engage
to anfwer for their Lives with my own; Sut where
(faid they) do you intend te carry us; Nay as to that,
faid I, 1 cannes as yet tells but be that as it a
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do you bebave civilly and as contentedly as you can, and
I will bring you every Thing you want, for in fbort there
is no barm intended againjt you ; and then I bolted
the Hatches upon them, and left them for a little
_-while to condole each other’s Misfortune 3; when
we all took-a chearing Tiff to our good Voyage, and
proceeded, pacifying the ‘Jews, (who alfo by that
‘Time knew their Misfortune) as well as we
could.
Now are we under Sail with a tolerable leading
Gale of Wind and ftrong Tide with us, being the
roth of Faly, 1738, alittle after “Ten o’Clock at
Night, tho’ about Day-break, the Wind flackening
all at once, and aftrong Current fetting right in upon
the Shore, we were obliged to come to an Anchor off
_ Mammora in five fathoms Water, where we were
obliged te remain all that Day, and till Two o’Clock
‘the next Morning, ftill in ExpeCQation of fome Boats
from the Shore, and which really caufed fome Unea-
finefs amongft us, tho’ during this we were not idle,
for we got our Arms upon Deck, in al} twenty-four
Mufkets befides Piftols and Scimiters, and put them in
compleat Order, putting into every one of them anew
Flint, and charging it with three Mufket Shot, keep-
‘ing them ready on the Deckin Cafe of any Vift-
tors coming aboard, to falute them, for in fhort ra-
ther than tobe carried back again, we were all tho-
roughly refolved to fight it out to the laft Man ; but
none of them coming, they faved us that Trouble,
and we were thro’ that Means I think by far the
better off ; about two in the Morning as I faid, a
fine breeze ef Wind coming off Shore, we weighed
our Anchor and before Sun-rifing were carried to
Seaward about five Leagues; and then we did not
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much fear any of their Boats coming after us, and
Row-Gallies we knew they had none ready.
Now are we (notwithftanding fo very little Wind)
in much better “Temper than before, when Madam
Luna (which was the Name of the Woman) de-
fired me to tell her where we defigned to carry her,
and what we intended to do by her, and if it was not
then too late to fether on Shoreonthe Barbary
Coaft ; I told her Yes, and thatin Cafe it was not,
yet would it be altogether inconfiftent with our own
Safety, and therefore fhe could not in Reafon expec
any fuch Thing; however, to fatisfie you of our
Intentions, we are bound for Gibraltar, where you
will be better off than to go back again to Barbary ;
for as you fo very much deferve your Name, you
wll no Doubt be there very well cared for; Alas /
faid fhe, had but I my little Son with me, (whom be
Jent afoore at Sallee). I foould not fo much mind it !
I’ by really Madam, laid 1, fince Things have fo fallen
out, I think it would be ating the prudent Partin you,
to forget him for a fort Time as much as you cans and
to confider that asheis among bis Friends, he will be
well cared fer, and very likely be better off than to be
here; andas to your cwn Part, you need not fear of
Leing as well ufed where you are, your Beauty being a
very fupficient Proteétion : But cannot you really (laid
fhe) put me on Shore to Barbary; Indeed Madam,
faid I, it cannot be done ; and if you will be pleafed to
flep upon the Vag you will foon be convinced of the —
Truth of it: Then fhe gave me her Hand, and I —
lifted her up, and after fhe had taken a full Profpect
of the Diftance of the Land, fhe feemed to be much
better temper’d.
Now are we filing” lowly on with very little
Wind, and. on my taking: Netice! of Madam Luna,
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I found her Countenance again very cloudy, on
which I afked her what new Difturbance was
_come into her Imagination 3 to which fhe an-
| fwered that her Difturbance was more than imagi-
nary; pray Madam, {aid }, tell me what it is that
| gils you, and if you think it in my Power to remedy
it 3 why really, Sir, faid fhe, [ cannot tell that, howe.
ever, [cannot help telling you, that my Kin{man bas of-
fered feveral Times to be rude with me; indeed Madam,
faid I, if you pleafe to give me Leave to manage him, £
— qwarrant to make him civil enough ; pray do then, {aid
fhe, but don’t by any Means burt him ; Then I took |
my young Spark to “Vafk, charging him with his
troublefome and unlawful. Amours ; from which ]
told him if he did not deff, but fhould offer for the
"future to make her the leaft uneafy on that Account,
I would make an Eunuch of him, and fend him to
the Empire of Morocco to be kept in his Seraglio 5
which really put him into fo great a Fright, that it
made his future Behaviour as modeft as you pleafe $
after this we had her Company generally on the Deck,
- qvhich we found to be very agreeable, and that fhe
was of a very innocent and modeft Converfation, and
thus we continued on till the Beginning of the
eleventh Day, when we were got off of Cape Spar-
fell ; on Sight of which, it being an old Cuftom for
thofe who had never before pafs’d thro’ the Streights
Mouth, to pay for the Benefit of thofe who had,
a Bottle of Brandy, and a Pound of Sugar, or Half
~a Crown in Money, in leu thereof; we held a Con-
- fulation thereon, and found all faving the two
Fews to have done it before, and being refolved not
to pafs this Cuftom by, the Male Few was required
to pay it; Pay at ! faid he, bow can that be, when I
pave no Money; zou foould have told me this at Sallee,
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aud then I would have taken care to have been better
provided : Indeed, faid the Sailors you are a very cunning
Fellow, and therefore anfwer us, will you pay it oF
will you not, or will the Captain and Madam Luna,
or either of them pafs their Word for you; which, by
Way of making more Diverfion, they feemed both
to be very backward to.do, it was therefore agreed
on all Hands for him to undergo the ufual Difcipline,
which was in cafe of refufal, to be hoifted up to the
Main-Yard-Arm, then to be let run amain into the
Sea, then hoifted up again, and repeated a third
Time; and then to have his Face well daub’d over
with Lamblack and Tallow ; in order to which a
Rope was tied about his Waift, and the Tackle
hooked to it, which made him to look after a very
piteous Manner, as beingno Doubt fadly afraid he
fhould be difciplin’d 1n good earneft, and being
hoifted up about half Way, the Captain was fo good
as to pafs his Word for him ; upon which he was let
down again, tho’ this did not very much pleafe Madam
Luna, fhe feeming to biame the Captain very much
for it: As to her own particular Part her bright
Beauty was to all of usa very fufficient Cordial, and
therefore it was by all allowed for her to go {cot free.
This paftime being at an Endand pafling moft of
that Night in merry Talk about; we about Ten
o’Clock the next Forenoon, being.the 21ft Day of
Fuly, 1738, arrived fafein Gibraltar Bay ; where
my Deliverer (for fo muft I now call him) and his
People bid me very heartily and I dare fay moft fin-
cerely welcome, when I fell to my Knees, offering
up my moft hearty Thanksto Almighty God, for
my fo wonderful and miraculous Deliverance, and
the Sight once more of Chriftian'Land ; being really
asit were ata ftand with myfelf, if it were more than
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(an imaginary dreaming in my Caveat Santa Cruz,
cand I had really a Debate with myfelf if I was well
;awake ; however I was foon confirmed ja its Reali-
ity, and that I was a€tually in Sight of Gibraltar,
‘and foon about to fet my Foot on Shore in that Gar-
rifon; where my Deliverer in order to prepare my
Way, went direétly:on Shore, and after he had an-
fwered to the Governor concerning his own Affairs,
he told him that he hada poor Chriftian Slave aboard
his Veflel, that was taken by the Infidels and carried
into Barbary in the Twelfth Year of his Age, which
was then more than ‘I’wenty-two Years ago ; that
Thad undergone a great deal of Hardfhip, and that
had he not. very accidentally and moft opportunely
happened to meet me. there, he fhould not in all
fikelihood have been permitted to come from thence
himfelf, fo that our meeting on both Sides was very
extraordinarily providential, then the Governor (as
my Deliverer told me) order’d himto bring me afhore;
however, as he lodged afhore that Night, Iknew
nothing of it till the next Morning. About twe
Hours after we were at an Anchor came along Side
of our Veffel, an English Sailor with whom | hap-
pened about a few Months before to have fome {mall
Acquaintance at Santa Cruz; and on his feeing me
onthe Deck he cameon board to bid me welcome
to Gibraltar ; when I afked him if he could not give
me an Account of the Ships then there, and if he
knew if any of them belonged to Falmouth ; he told
me Yes, there was one Captain Pye, but that he
was bound for Hamburgh, and whether he intended
to call at Fadmoutd inbis Way, or not, he could not
ell; fothat for my better Satisfaction I defired fome
of cur People to go.aboard his Veficl ; but he being
a@fhore at Gibraltar | could not hear any further of
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him that Night. Early the next Morning (being
Sunday) our Mate went afhore, and after he had
f{poken with my Deliverer, came dire@lly off to fetch
me, and after fecuring the A/Zoors in the Hold, and
taking my Leave of Madam Luna | ftepp’d into the
Boat with him. Here it is impoffible for me (or at
Jeaft for any body but myfelf) to defcribe the excef-
five Joy 1 felt during all the Time of our rowing
to the Shore, tho’ all may fuppofe it (after my fo long
and grievous Servitude amongft the Barbarians) to be
more than ordinary ; and now are we come to the
landing Place at the Water Port, where offering to
land, I was denied by the Centinels, telling me that
till they had Orders for my fo doing, they would noe
fuffer any Afoor to land: Moor! faid I, you are very
much .miftaken in that, for I am as good a Chriftian
(though 1 am dreffed in the Moorifh Garb) as any of
you all; therefore, pray ({aid 1) fuffer me once more
to fet my Foot on Chriftian Land: Indeed (faid they)
we cannot, if you was our Brother : Then one of
our People (for whom my Deliverer had taken a Li-
cence the Day before, and as no Doubt he had done ~
for all the reft, and amongft whom I was moft likely
alfo included) got out of the Boat, ran to the Office,
and was foon back again with a Note for the Serje-
ant of the Guard; on which I was dire€tly per-
mitted to land ; when I fell on my Knees, and after
the beft and fincereft Manner I could, offered up my
moft humbie and hearty Thanks to GOD for my
Deliverance, and happy landing; being now tho-
roughly convinced that I was at laft delivered out of
the Hands of the Infidels, though I very foon af-
ter moft unexpeCtedly met with fome fmall Difcon-
tent through their Means, though which, as it hap-
pened, ‘
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pened, did not prove of any great Signification, as
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Now is the Serjeant of the Guard very. inquifitive
with me concerning my Misfortunes ; and when f
had given hina fhort Account of them, and he had
returned his hearty Congratulations for my Delive-
ance, I pafled through three other Centries, and got
into the Garrifon; and going dire@ly with ore of
our People to my Deliverer’s Lodgings, (where I
found him wafhing his Face and Hands) he took ine
_ direétly in his Arms, embracing me, and with a very
hearty, and, I dare fay, fincere Kifs, bid me welcome.
to Gibraltar : But Tom, faid he, you were Ye/ter-
day, on my coming afbore, demanded of the Governor
as one of the Bafhaw of Tangier’s Subjects : Indeed !
Sir, faid I, By whom, pray ? Why, faid he, by one
| Abramico, a Jew, his Linguift ; but don’t you trot
ble yourfelf about it, for I dare engage to fend you
fafe Home to England, in Spite of all the Jews in Bar-
bary: Indeed, my Deliverer, faid 1, you furprize mz,
for you may fuppofe I could not in the leaf? imagine any
fuch Thing: Fob, faid he, never mind it, for as you
are a Subje& to the King of Great-Britain, [am very
well affured the Governor will not fufjer you to go
with him: But pray, Sir, faid 1, does the Governor
know any Thing of it asyet ? Yes, faid he, and when
the Jew demanded you of him, as one of the B.jbaw’s
| Subjedts, I heard him give him for Anfwer, that he
could not imagine how that could be, afking the Jew
what Countryman you were; What Countryman, {sid
the Few, an Englifhman: 4a Englifhman ! faid the
Governor, and a Subjeét to the Bafbaw of Fangier !
| Pray, how can that be ? I tell you he is a Subjed? tothe
King of Great-Britain, my Royal Mafter, and thither
will I fend -bim + And fo far, Tomy, is actually true,
ee og pel therefore
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therefore don’t you trouble yourfelf in the lea/? about if;
for, in foort, you have already got fo tender a Regaré
among/t the Inbabitants here, on Acconnt of all your
Sufferings hitherto, without their bearing any Thing
from your own Mouth, by Way of Confirmation, that
you need not doubt of their moft Chriftian-like Af-
fiftance: And then Mr, Cunningham, the Minifter,
came in, and with him feveral of the head Officers
of the Garrifon, with whom my Deliverer was be-
fore very well-acquainted : here being amongft
them one Mr. Beaver, a Gentleman belonging to
the Victualling-Office, he afked me how long I had
been in Barbary, with whom and when taken, and:
if I did not know Tom Ofgorne, of Fowey, there; I
to'd him I had been there almoft twenty-three Years,
that I was taken with ‘foba Pellow, my Uncle, in the
fecond Year of the Reign of King George the Firtt,.
and that we found Tom Ofberne at Mequinez, he being
taken fome fhort Time before us, with Captain Ri-
chard Sampfon, of Fowey : ‘To which Mr. Beaver
anfwered, that all I had faid was undoubtedly true, _
for that he knew Tom Ofborne very well, and that he
had heard him, feverak Times after his Releafement
and Return, to talk about me: On which the Mi-
nifter and he gave me their Words to ffand my
Frien’'s 3 and which, indeed, they did after the moft
Chriftian-like Manner, advifing me to prefent a Pe-
tition to General Saédine, the Governor, which the
Minifter readily offered me_ his Service to prefent,
and which my Deliverer got dnectly drawn, and was
by the Parfon accordingly delivered, from whom he
brought me back two Gald Ducats, as. his Charity ;
then I went to Church, and returned Thanks to Al-
mighty GOD before the Congregation for my Dee —
diverance, and received the Charity of fevera] of them : —
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After which there was a general Contribution 5 tho”
I did not ftay there fo long as to receive the whole of
it, as I fhall mention hereafter.
Tue Charity of thefe Chriftian-like People ex«
| tended even to the higheft Degree ; for on my Pro-
pofal of going thence in a fimall Veflfel for Falmouth,
they would not by any Means fuffer it, but that
fhould wait for the Opportunity of a Ship of Force
bound Home, or of a Man of War for Li/bon, whi-
ther they would fend me well recommended to the
Britifh Envoy, in order to my being by him fent
Home to Falmouth in one of the Packet Boats 5
which, though I waited there twenty odd Days, did
not happen. Pa
Tue Day after my landing, Captain Pye came
afhore, with whom [had the Pleafure of converfing,
for fome fhort Time, as alfo with the Boat’s Crew,
and they were all of them very civil to me ; but as:
his Veflel was of no Force, and my Benefactors
had before abfolutely determined that I fhould go im
none but fuch as was, I did not urge it to him ; how-
ever, [humbly intreated that he or fome other of his:
People would, in cafe they touched at Falmouth,
inform my Friends of my happy Deliverance and.
Efcape thither out of the Hands of the Infidels, and
that I believed I fhould be fent Home by Way of
Lifbon, fo that they might expect me in one of the
Packet Boats ; which I found, at my coming Home,
they were fo very good to remember 5 however,.
left they might not touch at. Falmouth, my good
Friend, Mr. Beaver, was fo kind to write a very
tender Letter tohis Friend at Looe, in Cornwall, to
the fame Purport, and which was conveyed by his:
Friend to my Friendsin Penryn,
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Douriwe my Stay at Clbraltar, TL faw Mrv Abrae
mice, the ‘few, generally every Day, and whom I
found had’more than an ordinary Notion with him-
felf of carrying me back with him to Barbary, often
threatening me behind my Back, as I had heard by
feveral People, with the moft. ehiel Death ; whereat
I was fo exafperated, that I really fhunned him all I
could, left I fhould Jet loofe my Rage upon him, and
happen to do him fome bodily Mifchief, and there-
by bring myfelf to further Trouble ; ; not that I was,
‘as he no Doubt believed, under the leaft Fear of
him, but really on Account of my letting loofe my
Rage upon him ; however, what could [ doy when §
had every Day fo many. repeated Accounts, by Way
of my Friends, of his Infolence ? infomuch that I
thought I could never forgive myfelf, if I did not
give him fome gentle Correétion; which, on my dif-
courfing one of my very good Friends immediately
after, I was more abfolutely determined in, he being
come but that very Minute from the few, who, he
faid, had been confirming his former Sentence on
me; and I very foon after meeting him in the
Street, the firft Salutation I gave him was a hearty
Box on the Ear, feconded by a Cornz/h Tip, which
rought him Head-foremoft to the Ground, and
beat it againft the Stones very feverely ; infomuch,
that had not fome of my Friends perfuaded me to
the contrary, I fhould certainly have done him far
greater Mifchief ; though this, I think, did him no
Hurt in the main, but rather on the contrary. a great
deal of Good, for he really took fpecial Care to
bridle his Tongue, and keep himfelf out of my
Clutches for the future as much as he could. And
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Now are the worthy Gentlemen raifing Contri-
butions for my Benefit, and as the Generality of the
‘People were very charitably difpofed, there was ga-
_-thered, no Doubt, fome Hundreds of Dollars ; but
before the Contributions were finifhed, the good Ship
Euphrates, Captain Peacoek, Commander, from Tur-
key for London, mounting twenty-fix Guns, came to
an Anchorin the Road, when my Deliverer, and
_ fome other of my Friends, went at my Requeft di-
re@ly on board, earneftly folliciting the Captain in
my Favour for a Paflage 5 for that as Thad under-
gone fo long and grievous a Captivity in Barbary,
and was fo fortunately efcaped thither, they humbly
hoped that he would not refufe me fo Chriftian-like a
Kindnefs as to further me with him to my native
Country; or if he fhould not happen to touch at
Falmouth, or any other Port in the Weft of England,
to land me at Londen: Which, as my Deliverer told
me, Captain Peacock readily came into, and he ag
foon haftened on Shore to me with the welcome
News; and doubting left my very great Enemy,
Abramico, might by Way of Bribe, or otherwife,
_ induce any Body to fhow me fome foul Play, it was
agreed by my Friends, and thought highly necefflary
on all Hands, for me to go on board directly ; and
_ which, indeed, as agreeing fo very much with my
own Inclinations, after taking my Leave of my De-
-Jiverer and my worthy Benefactors, I forthwith did,
and was by the Captain very kindly received. |
Ow this my fo fudden Departure, I was obliged
to leave moft of my Contribution Money behind
ame; however, I had fome, which was of very ex-
_ cellent Service to me, by Way of providing me
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fome ce Neceffaries, and Sea Storés 3 ‘though I
with’d many Times fince, and efpecially on my poor
Reception on our Arrival at Lozdon, that I had ftaid
there a little longer; which, if I had, I fhould no ©
Doubt have received all the reft of the Contribu-
fions 3 which, as they were. very confiderable, would —
have been of no fmall Benefit to my prefent un-
happy Circumftances ; however, 1 am well fatisfied
that my worthy Renefa@ors at Gibraltar are Gentle-
men of fo much ftri@ Honour and Goodnefs, as to
remit it me, on my petitioning them thereon.
AnD nowam I on board the Ezpbrates, and un-
der Sail for my fo long defired and longed after Iflands.
but we met with very high and contrary Winds,
and, according to the Seafon of the Year, a very
high and troubled Sea ; ; though our Ship being in alt
Points welt provided, (Lodgings only excepted) I -
did not. much mind it, fhe being fo full between
Decks, and clofe ftowed with Cotton, that the Peo-
ple had but juft Room through it to their Cabbins or
Hammocks, which made it fo very fultry hot, that I
could by no Means bear it 5 therefore, for my better
breathing, I generally took up.at Nights with the
Boat on the Booms, where I lay me > down to my
Reft, covered over with an old Sail; and as we had
abundance of wet Weather, fcarce a Night pailed
without my being fufficiently wetted, and ftanding
more than an equal Chance of my being wafhed
over-board ; however, I bore it with Chrittian Pa-
tience, and as this fimall Part of my Sufferings was
in order to put an End to and fum up all the reft; I
was not only contented, but well pleafed therewith,
rather thanto fuffer the fmothering between Decks ;
for I might have lodged between Decks, if I would,
and therefore it wasmy owa Choice,
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AND now is ‘it come to the twenty-fourth Day of
our Paflage, when I heard called out aloud from
aloft, the very much pleafing and long expected
Word Lawn, and which proved to be the Weltern
Land’s-End of England, or Cape Cornwall 5 and
. the Wind favouring to earry us up the Channel, we
crowded a great Sail, pafled by Falmouth, and kept
en all upon the fame Tack, till we got off of the
Bill of Pertland; when, on Account of one of our
People falling over-board, we were obliged to bring.
_ to; and on our throwing out fome empty Cags, and
_ Rails of Timber, he caught hold on one of them ;
then we hoifted out our Boat, and had him well on
board again. After this Accident, (which I thank
‘GOD was the firftand the laft we met with during,
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our Paflage from Gibraltar) we kept on with this.
favourable Gale tothe Downs, pafled through, and
calt Anchor at the Nore, where Captain Peacock found
his Wife, with her Brather, on board of a Man of
War, (of which he was Commander) waiting his
, Coming,. The next Tyde we got to Gravefend, and
the next up the River Thames to Deptford; where
_our Ship was to be difburthened of her Cargo, it be-
ing the thirty-firft Day after our Departure from Gjb-
' xaltar.
Here (as being altogether unacquainted at Len-
_ don) 1 remained on beard the Ship feven Days ; du-
fing which, on fome of the Sailors publifhing on
Shore of their bringing me Home with them, and it
_Feaching the Ears of William ‘fohnfon’s Sifter, the
_¢ame on board to enquire after him, afking me if I
had ever feen him in Barbary : Seen him, Madam,
faid I, yes, yes, to my Sorrow; for had 1 net, it would
in all Likelibood bave prevented me of many Years
grievous Captivity: Lord! {aid the, What was the
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Matter ? Matter, faid 1, Matter enough, I think 5
for he not only refufed to embrace a moft glorious and
eertain Means of getting off himfelf, but (too much
like the Dog in the Manger) treachereufly, and con-
trary to his Oath, hindered thofe that would : Why
(faid fhe) £ bear be is very much cut in the Face: ©
Yes, Madam, faid 1, and fo he is, though I think not —
Ralf fo much as he deferved: Pray (faid fhe) tell me
bow it happened, and what it was for: And then I
told her the Story from the Beginning to the End,
and that I was forry I. had not cut off his Head ; at
which the pretty Girl wept ; however, to comfort ~
her again, I told her that her Brother was foon well
of the Wounds I gave him, and fet at Liberty thro’
my Means, and that unlefs it were his own Fault,
fhe might very likely fee him Home again in.a very
little “Time; at which her Countenance began to ~
clear up, and fhe feemed to behave with much better
Temper, though fhe was, no Doubt, not a little
difpleafed with me, and ready in her Heart to revenge
(as fhe term’d it) her Brother’s Injuries. é
Now I went afhore at Deptford, and going dire€lly
to Church, returned publick Thanks to GOD for my
fafe Arrival in Old England, and received the Cha-
rity of the Minifter and Parifh Clerk, ftaying in —
the Town eight Days longer ; during which, I was
“very civilly entertained by Mr. William “fames, a
Cornifbman, Captain Peacock’s Steward ; and amongft
all the Veffels bound down the River, fnding none
bound for Falmouth, I afix’d my Friend, Mr. ‘James,
what Courfe I had beft to fteer ; he told me my
moft likely Way to get a Paflage, would be for me
togoto Beels Vharf, a little below London Bridge,
on the Southwark Side of the River, and there I
might very likely find one or more of the Cornifh
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in Veffels, or fome other bound for Plyncuth s
So I went dire@ly thither, and foon found, to my
Very great Satisfaction, three Tin Veffels, and on
difcourfing the People, I underftood that the Cap-
_ tains were all on the-other Side the Water, and thag¢
IT might have a further Account of them at the
_King’s-Head in Pudding-Lane, near the Monu-
ment: Paffing over London Bridge, I foon got to
_the Houfe, and luckily found one Captain Francis, of
Penzance, who was Commander of one @f them,
named the Truro; and after I had told him my
Name, he was extreamly civil to'me, and readily of-
fered me a Paflage in his Veffel with him down to,
Cornwall; which I moft heartily thanked him for,
and with Joy gladly accepted of it, telling him I
\fhould depend thereon,: and that: I would be fure ta:
igive my Attendance accordingly 5 but as I found he
‘Could not fail in ten Days, I (through the Advice of
fome of my new Acquaintance) went to the Navy
‘Office, praying the Commiffioners kind introducing
me to his Majefty ;.to which they (after they had
difcourfed me) feemed to be pretty well inclined, or-
‘dering me to come to them again, as indeed I.did:
again and again, though all I could get from them at
the laft, was the very extraordinary Favour of a
Hammock-on board of a Man of War: I told thera
that I was very much obliged to them, and if [
could not get a Livelihood through other Means:
on Terra Firma, but mutt be again obliged to go to
Sea, that a Man of War fhould be my Choice of all:
pther Ships 5 for as I had never made but a Piece of
t Voyage in a Merchantman, and that fo very unfors=
‘unate, I did not care to encounter with a fecond,.
which if Ifhould, and again fall into the Hands of the.
Woors, it would foon be out of my Power toen-
rounter with a third: Then I fully refolved with:
myfelf to give thefe worthy Gentlemen no further.
Trouble, but to haften as faft asI could Home to the-
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Place of my Nativity, there to get proper Vouchers —
‘and recommendatory Letters to fome worthy Per- —
fon, and return therewith, in order to his introdu-
‘eing me and my Petition.
- ArT my going out of the Office, I chanced to
“meet in the Street one of Elbafh Abauleodah Pe-
‘vez, the Morocco Ambaflador’s Nephews 3; and
“whom (as I had been fo well acquainted with him be-
fore in Barbary) you may fuppofe I was very glad to
fee, even much more than ever I was to fee him in
Barbary : He very earneftly entreating meto go
with him to’ vifithis Uncle and the reft of my old
‘Acquaintance, I told him I fully intended to do it, if
T had not met him there; however, faid I, zt may
now be fo much the betier for me, through Means of
your introducing me ; fo | went direétly with
him, and ‘was by the old Man very kindly received ;
and after he had difcourfed me fo faras he thought —
At, as afking mé how I got off, and the like, “he
told me that he was very glad I was delivered out of
an unhappy Country, and ‘that he wifhed himfelf in
no happier Condition than I was, charging his Peo-
ple tomake me very welcome, and if I was difpofed
to take up with his Houfe altogether, as to my eating
and drinking, it would pleafe him very much; tho” —
tuis Idid not care much to accept of, neither did I, —
after a blunt Manner, refufe it, anfwering him with
alow Bow; and after [had dined there that Day,
on my Favourite. Difh Cufcafloe, and fome Englifi
Dithes, T returned to my Lodgings in Pudaing-Lane ;-
where I had not been but a very little Time, beforea
Gentleman came in, congratulating me on my being
fo near to be introduced to his Majeity, and he was
foon feconded by feveral others: F humbly thanked
them, (as fuppofing it only thei Pleafure to fay fo by
Way of Merriment) and that I wifhed it were true,
though J very much doubted the contrary, by Reafon —
I’ could get no Body to introduce me: No f faid
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‘they, Wy it is actually in the News Papers : Indeed
faid1: Yes, faid they, i zs 3 on which the News
- Paper was directly brought forth, and I read in it the
following Paragraph, wz. * A Man is now m Town,
‘66 lately arrived from Gibraltar, in the Euphrates,
6 Captain Peacock, efcaping there from Barbary,
7 €¢ where he had been a Slave twenty-five Years, be- —
“© ing taken by the AZcors in the tenth Year of his
-& Age, and is to be prefented to his Majefty one
s¢ Day this Week :’ Which I foon found to be ene
‘of Mr. News-Writer’s Truths ; for which I told
the Printer that I thought him very much to blame,
for that I had ,given him no fuch Licence, neither
eould J, without afferting a very great Falfity ; and
as to his Majefty, I believed he knew nothing of the
Matter.- After this, ] waited on the Adorocco Am-
+affador fevera] Times, and was always by him and:
this People kindly received.
Now is Captain Francis ready to fall down the:
River: The firft Tide'we got to Gravefend, and the
next to the Nore, and the'third over the Fats, and
~FRto the Downs, and thence with a favourable Gale
kept failing till we got of the Start, where the Wind
taking us right a-head, and blowing very hard, we let’
go our Anchor, and rid it out there two Days, when
‘we moved thence, and got that Day off Plymouth,
and the next, being Sunday, we got about Four
o’Clock in the Afternoon fafe into Falmouth Peer
whence being to Penryn, the Place of my _ Nativity,
no more than two Miles, I got to the Town in the
Evening ; and as my Father’s Houfe was almoft
quite at the other End of the Town, perhaps about
half a Mile, I was (before | could reach it) more
than an Hour ; for notwithftanding it was almoft
quite dark, I was fo crowded by the Inhabitants,
‘that I could not pafs through them, without a great
deal of Difficulty ;. though this, [ muft own, was of
a different and far more pleafing Nature to me, than
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‘giy fir Entrance into AZequinez, every one (inftead
of boxing me and pulling my Hair) faluting me, —
and, aftera moft courteous Manner, bidding-me wel-
come Home, being all very inquifitive with me, if-I —
knew them ;. which indeed, Idid not, for I was fo —
very young at- my Departure, and- my Captivity,
and the Jong Interval. of Time, had made fo very
great an Alteration on both Sides,:that I.did not know
my own Father and Mother, nor they me; and had
we happened to meet-at any other Place, without
being on either Side pre-advifed, (whereby there
might be an Expedtation, or natural Inftinét inter-
pofing) we fhould no Doubt have paffed each other,
unlefs my great Beard might: have induc’d them to
enquire further after me. .
AND now is the fo long loft Sheep again reftored
to his Owners, after his long ftraying, and grievous _
Hardfhips amongft thofe Monfters and ravencus
Wolves of Infidelity, and fafely returned to his Pa-—
rents, in the Town of his Nativity, being the 15th
Day of Odfober, 1738; and the twelfth Year of the
Reign of our Sovereign Lord King. George the Se-
cond.
_ To look back upon, and ferioufly to confider the
Years of my Captivity, is fo frightful and amazing,
that all muft allow that nothing but the “mighty
Proteétion of a great, good, all-feeing, moft-fufficient,
and gracious GOD, could have carried- me. through
it, or delivered me out of it ; therefore, to-Him be
the Glory, Honour, and Prazfe, and may He fo order
my Heart, as always to continue a lively Remembrance
thereof, and fo order my Ways,: to live up’ to H1s
Divine Precepts, during the. Remainder of this A4r-
tal Life ; that after all thefe my Sufferings ended
Whesey may be crowned with a glorious Immortality
in the Kingdom of HEAVEN.
gS ne er ae
a i al Saal ae it i a a le Oe
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