lated to make a safe Harbour.--Growth of Tobacco.--Mazagan
described.--Azamor the Abode of Storks.--Saneet Urtemma a dangerous
Country.--Dar El Beida, Fedalla, and Rabat described.--Mausoleum of
the Sultan Muhamed ben Abd Allah at Rabat.--Of Shella, a Roman
Town.--Of the Tower of Hassan.--Road of Rabat.--Productive Country
about Rabat.--Salee.--The People inimical to Christians.--The
Dungeon where they confined Christian Slaves.--Ait Zimurh,
notorious Thieves.--Their Mode of Robbing.--Their Country disturbed
with Lions.--Arrival at Mequinas.--Some Account of that City and
its imperial Palace.--Ladies of Mequinas extremely
beautiful.--Arrival at the renowned Sanctuary of Muley Dris
Zerone.--Extraordinary and favourable Reception there by the
Fakeers of the Sanctuary.--Slept in the Adytum.--Succour expected
from the English in the Event of an Invasion by
Bonaparte.--Prostration and Prayer of Benediction by the Fakeers at
106 my Departure from the Sanctuary.--Ruins of Pharaoh near the
Sanctuary.--Treasures found there.--Ite Amor.--The Descendants of
the Ancient Amorites.--Character of these People.--Various Tribes
of the Berebbers of Atlas.--El Kassar Kabeer.--Its Environs, a
beautiful Country.--Forest of L'Araich.--Superior Manufacture of
Gold Thread made at Fas, as well as Imitations of Amber.--Grand
Entry of the British Ambassador into Tangier.--Our Ignorance of
African Matters.--The Sultan's Comparison of the Provinces of his
Empire to the various Kingdoms of Europe._

TO JAMES WILLIS, ESQ.

Tangier,
8th August, 1801.
Dear sir,

My journey to meet His Excellency James M. Matra, the British
ambassador to the Court of Marocco, was undertaken principally to
obtain permission to ship a large quantity of wool which I had in
my possession, the exportation of which had been recently
prohibited. I thought I could not select a more seasonable time
than when our ambassador was at court; accordingly, I started from
Mogodor (the morning after I dispatched two vessels for Europe) on
the 4th June last, at four o'clock, P.M. My journey was first to
Rabat; thence, across the country, to Fas and Mequinas; thence to
the renowned and revered sanctuary of