der has been committed, to
revenge the death of a relation, after becoming, by intervening
death, the next of kin of the murdered person.

The lamentable effects of this fatal retaliation is such, that one
death often produces twenty murders, and afterwards involves whole
kabyls in intestine wars.
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It is remarkable, that the more duplicity they use in these horrid
transactions, the more merit is ascribed to the agent; who is
praised in proportion to the extent of his ingenuity, or duplicity,
as was the case with the liberator above mentioned.

_Every Nation is required to use its own Costume._

The Jews in West and South Barbary, have a predilection for the
European costume, in preference to their own, the former being
respected, the latter not: moreover the character of a _merchant_
is highly respected by the Moors, and the European dress is a kind
of passport to a man as such. One day, the Emperor seeing in the
place of audience, at a great distance, a gentleman, apparently an
European ambassador, ordered the master of the audience to go and
see who he was, and what nation he represented; but it being
discovered that he was a Marocco Jew, his scarlet and gold dress
was torn from him, and a _burnose_, (a large black cloak, the
costume of the Jews of the lower order,) was put over him, when he
was buffetted and kicked out of the place of audience. The Emperor
was exasperated at this circumstance, which he considered a vain
deception: he ordered his secretary to write to all the ports in
his dominions, to desire that Jews should wear the _burnose_, that
297 Christians only should wear the European costume, and Moors and
Arabs theirs; so that thus every individual might be known by their
respective dress. On this occasion, an opulent Hebrew merchant at
Mogodor felt so much the insults he was exposed to, from wearing
the Jewish costume, that he actually paid several thousand dollars
to obtain the privilege he had formerly enjoyed, which, in
consequence of his being an opulent man, and a foreign merchant,
was granted to him.

The name of this gentleman would here be mentioned to gratify the
curious; but as it might give umbrage to his family, and as the
intention here is only to describe the character and manners of the
country, there is,