e disorder in
the beasts of the field, was the same as that which designated the
small-pox in the human species, viz. JEDRIE. In consequence of this
information, confirmed afterwards by other enquiries, His
Excellency wrote to England on the subject, and, I believe, sent
some vaccine pus home; soon after which Dr. Jenner began his
experiments on vaccine inoculation, which have since been adopted
throughout Europe, and in great part of Asia and America. Although
I was thus instrumental in the propagation of vaccine inoculation,
yet I never asked for or received any remuneration; but I feel a
satisfaction in having been thus instrumental of good to mankind,
in this new and eligible system of inoculation, by means of which
human life has been preserved; for, according to Sir Gilbert
338 Blane's late statement, 23,134 lives have been saved during the
last 15 years by vaccination.

_Game_.

All kinds of game are plentiful in South and in West Barbary; viz.
_el gror_, a bird somewhat similar to the English partridge, but
unknown in Europe. I shot some of these birds for Doctor Brussonet,
the naturalist, who was intendant of the national garden of botany
at Montpelier, which that gentleman prepared in the oven, and sent
to the National Institute at Paris. He informed me this bird was a
non-descript. Hares, antelopes, woodcocks, snipes, plovers,
bustards. There is an abundance of partridges, red ducks as large
as geese, ducks, wigeon, and teal; curlews, in immense quantities,
are found in the flat parts of the country on the coast; immense
quantities of doves, wild pigeons, wood-pigeons, and large
sand-larks. Every person is at liberty to shoot; but the princes
and the great, consider field-sports beneath their dignity, except
hawking, and hunting the wild boar, the lion, and the tiger. The
Muhamedans do not prefer game to other food. When they have shot a
bird, they immediately cut its throat, that the blood may flow
freely; otherwise it is not lawful to eat it. Game is never seen in
the public markets. When they shoot for Europeans, they dispense
with the ceremony of cutting the throat of the game. They reproach
the Christians for eating such food, which they call (_m'jeefa_)
"strangled."
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_Agriculture.--Mitferes._

The agriculturists,