ONSULATE FOR GREAT BRITAIN,
"MAZAGAN, _Oct. 5, 1838_.

"_This is to certify that Abd Allah bin Boo Shaib es-Salih,
resident at Ain Haloo in the province of Rahamna, has been duly
appointed agent of Edward Vecchio, a British subject, residing in
Mazagan: all authorities will respect him according to existing
treaties, not molesting him without proper notice to this
Vice-Consulate._[22]

"_Gratis_ Seal. [Signed] "JOHN SMITH.
"_H.B.M.'s Vice-Consul, Mazagan._"

[22: A genuine "patent of protection," as prescribed by treaty,
supposed to be granted only to wholesale traders, whereas
every beggar can obtain "certificates of partnership." The
native in question has then only to appear before the notaries
and state that he has in his possession so much grain, or so
many oxen or cattle, belonging to a certain European, who takes
them as his remuneration for presenting the notarial document at
his Legation, and obtaining the desired certificate. Moreover,
he receives half the produce of the property thus made over to
him. This is popularly known as "farming in Morocco."]

XXVIII

JUSTICE FOR THE JEW

"Sleep on anger, and thou wilt not rise repentant."

_Moorish Proverb._

The kaid sat in his seat of office, or one might rather say reclined,
for Moorish officials have a habit of lying in two ways at once when
they are supposed to be doing justice. Strictly speaking, his position
was a sort of halfway one, his back being raised by a pile of
cushions, with his right leg drawn up before him, as he leant on his
left elbow. His judgement seat was a veritable wool-sack, or rather
mattress, placed across the left end of a long narrow room, some eight
feet by twenty, with a big door in the centre of one side. The only
other apertures in the whitewashed but dirty walls were a number of
ventilating loop-holes, splayed on the inside, ten feet out of the
twelve above the floor. This was of worn octagonal tiles, in parts
covered with a yellow rush mat in an advanced state of consumption.
Notwithstanding the fact that the ceiling was of some dark colour,
hard to be defined at its present age, the audience-chamber was
amply lighted from the lofty horse-shoe archway of the entrance, for
sunshine is reflection in Morocco to a degree unknown in northern
climes.

On the wall above the head of the kaid hung a couple of huge and