An account of the empire of Marocco, and the district of Suse, Band 300

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Seite 147 - ... fingers to touch the lips. However repugnant this may be to our ideas of cleanliness, yet, the hand being always washed and never touching the mouth in the act of eating, these folks are by no means so dirty as Europeans have sometimes hastily imagined.
Seite 84 - The more sickly the tree appears, the more gum it yields ; and the hotter the weather, the more prolific it is. A wet winter and a cool or mild summer are unfavourable to the production of gum.
Seite 238 - These serve as watering-places to the men, as well as to feed, refresh and replenish the hardy and patient camel. At each of these...
Seite 143 - ... generally twice, and sometimes four times a week, in the (M'shoire) place of audience, whither all complaints are carried. Here access is easy ; he listens to every one, foreigners or subjects, men or women, rich or poor. There is no distinction ; every one has a right to appear before him, and boldly to explain the nature of his case ; and although his person is considered as sacred, and established custom obliges the subject to prostrate himself, and to' pay him rather adoration than respect,...
Seite 243 - ... issue on the arrival of the akkabaah, which they plunder of every thing, leaving the unfortunate merchants entirely destitute. Those who have philosophy enough to confine their wants solely to what nature requires, would view the individual happiness of the people who compose the caravans, with approbation. Their food, dress, and accommodation, are simple and natural ; proscribed from the use of wine and intoxicating liquors, by their religion, and ex.
Seite 79 - Kief is usually pounded, and mixed with an invigorating confection which is sold at an enormous price; a piece of this as big as a walnut will for a time entirely deprive a man of all reason and intellect: they prefer it to opium from the voluptuous sensations which it never fails to produce.
Seite 237 - Morocco, &c. at a very low rate. During their route, they are often exposed to the attacks of the roving Arabs of Sahara, who generally commit their depredations as they approach the confines of the desert.
Seite 273 - Provisions also became extremely cheap and abundant; the flocks and herds had been left in the fields, and there was now no one to own them ; and the propensity to plunder, so notoriously attached to the character of the Arab, as well as to the Shelluh and Moor, was...
Seite 51 - ... rich scenery of the spring. They have a government among them, similar to that of the bees and ants ; and, when their king or leader rises, the whole body follow him, not one solitary straggler being left behind to witness the devastation.
Seite 277 - Fas in 1199, a species of influenza pervaded the whole country; the patient going to bed well, and on rising in the morning, a thick phlegm was expectorated, accompanied by a distressing rheum, or cold in the head, with a cough, which quickly reduced those affected to extreme weakness, but was seldom fatal, continuing from three to seven days, with more or less violence, and then gradually disappearing. During the plague at Mogodor, the European merchants shut themselves up in their respective houses,...

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