[218] It amounts to about half a dollar. At Tangier they were formerly assessed 2000 ducats; the half was remitted when the dragomans of the different consuls, who were the wealthiest men of the tribe, were exempted from taxation.
[219] The passages are, Exodus xiii. 1, 10, 11, 16; Deut. vi. 4-9; and Deut. xi. 13-21.
[220] Eccles. iv. 17.
[221] See calculation in Lindo’s “Jews of the Peninsula.”
[222] An Englishman at Gibraltar has recently become a Jew, and they seem to have invented some strange process of admission, and subjected him to a total abstinence from food during seven days. He gave up a petty office he held in the police, which required him to work on Saturday.
[223] The Mussulman is indeed enjoined by the Koran to eat without asking questions whatever is offered to him by a Christian, as well as a Jew, but this they do not always practise.
[224] “In Terjgient there is a people called the Medjehrahs, of Jewish extraction, who, to escape death (?) embraced Islamism. They have the peculiar Jewish features, and the Arabs say, their houses have the Jewish smell. They live in quarters set apart for themselves, but they do not intermarry: they are scribes and merchants, but are never raised to the office of Caïd or Imaum. They do not observe Friday as the Sabbath.”—Davidson’s Journal.
[225] Whence the Greek Δεἴπνον.
CHAPTER IV.
THE BAÏRAM.
December 10th.