_) be beat. The
sect soon disappeared.

[Footnote 199: This punishment is inflicted by two men, one on
each side; the culprit is stretched naked on the ground, and
beat on the back unmercifully, with sticks two yards long, and
as thick as a finger.]

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_Muhamedan Loyalty_.

An alkaid of a district in the province of Abda, when that province
submitted to the Emperor, went to His Majesty, taking with him the
fruit of his government, viz. 100,000 dollars. He prostrated
himself before the Emperor, and announced that he had brought this
money to the Muselman treasury, being what he had collected since
the death of the Emperor's father. "I have lived splendidly, and
have never wanted any thing, or I should have brought Your Majesty
much more treasure." "You have been," said the Emperor, "a faithful
servant, and you shall be rewarded." He was promoted to a
government, and had many opportunities of refunding his loss. A
large sum was returned to him for his fidelity.

_Cairo_.

The city of El Kahira is called by Europeans Cairo. When Kairo was
founded, in the 359th year of the Hejra, the planet Mars was in
ascension; and it is Mars who conquers the universe: "therefore,"
said Moaz, (the son of El Mansor) to _his_ son, "I have given it
the name of El-Kahira."[200]

[Footnote 200: El Kahira is the Arabic for the planet Mars, and
signifies _victorious_.]
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_Races of Men constituting the Inhabitants of West and South
Barbary, and that Part of Bled el Jereed, called Tafilelt and Sejin
Messa, east of the Atlas, forming the Territories of the present
Emperor of Marocco_.

_The Moors_, who inhabit the towns on the coast, and the cities of
Fas, Mequinas, Marocco, and Terodant; who speak a corrupt Arabic
language.

_The Berebbers_, who appear to be the Aborigines, and who retain
precisely the same character that was anciently given of the
Mauritanians by Sallust. These people inhabit the mountains of
Atlas, north of the city of Marocco, and have a language peculiar
to themselves. They are a hardy race of warriors, as artful as they
are indefatigable in war; when attacked by the imperial troops,
they defend themselves valiantly; and, by stratagem and device,
often surprise and defeat the Emperor's best