In large families the dish contains sometimes thirty or forty pounds of beef, four dozen eggs, and eight sausages made of the largest entrails of the bullock. Potatoes are of modern introduction, but the sweet potato is an ancient produce of the country. The English potato is called Roman, as coming from Europe.
FOOTNOTES:
[213] At Tangier the body of elders is called Mahamad; the members composing it, Yehedeems,
President, Parnaas,
Reader, Haezan,
Treasurer, Gisbar,
Sacristan, Saamus,
Deean (Judge).
[214] “Muley Arshid proceeded to a district called ‘The Mountain of the Jew,’ because a Jew governed there, and because the Brebers, whom he subjected to the law, respected him as their sovereign. After spreading terror through the country, he massacred the Jew as unworthy of commanding Mahometans, seized on his wealth, and rewarded his troops.”—Chenier, vol. ii p. 122.
[215] In the towns of Morocco a primitive mode of trapping is in use, to prevent the entrance of the effluvia from drains and cess-pools. The orifice is small, and a stone is fitted to it, and slipped off and on. It is the closest application in a city of the injunction of Deuteronomy xxiii. 12, 13, which the Moors rigidly follow, when they are in the country.
[216] Country of the Erse, that is, the Celts. Erse, however, like Scot, is peculiar to the clans. I shall revert to this term in tracing their wanderings.
[217] Rating by the taxes they pay, the town population is only 74,000.
| DUCATS. | |
|---|---|
| Rabat, population 4000 | 1000 |
| Salee | 500 |
| Tangier | 1000 |
| Tetuan | 3000 |
| Fez | 5000 |
| Mequinez | 3000 |
| Mogadore | 3000 |
| Morocco | 500 |
| Arzila | 500 |
| Larache | 1000 |
| 18,500 | |
Numerous agricultural tribes of them are settled in the Atlas.