favourably of them, whenever opportunity may offer.
Incredible sums are sometimes expended in this way.

_El_[183] _Wah El Grarbee, or the Western Oasis_.

The prince, Muley Abd Salam, elder brother of the reigning Emperor,
Muley Soliman, purchased, on his return from the pilgrimage to
281 Mecca, a domain in (Santariah[184]) the Oasis of Ammon or Siwah, as
a retreat; and being appointed by his father Seedi Muhamed, viceroy
of the province of Suse[185], he was enabled to give succour to the
Shelluhs, inhabitants of that province, on their pilgrimage to
Mecca, and to entertain them with the comforts of hospitality on
their passage through the Desert. This was the more agreeable to
these Shelluhs, because, after passing a long journey of some
thousands of miles through Sahara, they reached, at Santariah, not
only a territory yielding every comfort and necessary of life, but
a country wherein their own prince had authority, and wherein their
own native language is spoken and understood.

[Footnote 183: In the Lybian Desert there are three _Wahs_ (or
_Oasises_, as we call them): the greater, called _El Wah El
Kabeer_; the lesser, called _El Wah Segrer_; and the Oasis of
Ammon, called _El Wah El Grarbie_, i. e. the Wah of the West.]

[Footnote 184: The Wah of the West is also called by the
Mograbines _Santariah_.]

[Footnote 185: See the map of West Barbary.]

When this prince's father, the emperor Seedi Muhamed died[186], the
prince Abdsalam engaged Alkaid Hamed ben Abdsaddock, late governor
of Mogodor, to go to Santariah, and sell this domain for him; which
he accordingly did. It is more than probable that the Shelluhs of
Siwah are an _emigration_ from Suse.

[Footnote 186: About twenty-eight years since.]

_Prostration, the etiquette of the Court of Marocco_.

282 An ambassador from Great Britain was sent to the court of Marocco,
during the reign of Seedi Muhamed, father of the present emperor,
Soliman. On his arrival at Fas, (where the court was at that time
held,) the (_Mule M'shoer_) Master of the Audience, who was the
(_Sherreef_) Prince Muley Dris, came up to the ambassador and
informed him, that it was customary for all persons coming into the
imperial presence to take off their shoes, and to prostrate