[30]If it blow more than three days, it is expected to continue seven; and if it exceed seven, it is said to continue fourteen, and so on. During the years that I was in the country, it never blew at Mogodor more than three or seven.
[31]The Bashaw then informed me that he had never before known it to continue more than twenty-one days, and he was a man of seventy, and a native of Suse.
[32]Bled-el-jerrêde is the country situated between the maritime states of Barbary and Sahara, or the Desert.
[33]Filelly is the term given to the natives of Tafilelt, as Drahawie is to those of Draha.
[34]The father of the present Sultan Soliman built a magnificent palace on the banks of the river of Tafilelt, which bounds his dominions to the eastward; the pillars are of marble, and were many of them transported across the Atlas, having been collected from the (Ukser Farawan) Ruins of Pharoah, near to the sanctuary of Muley Dris Zerone, west of Atlas.
[35]A horse erhella (or day’s journey) is thirty-five miles English.
[36]An ordinary erhella is thirty English miles.
[37]A cubit is twenty-one inches.
[38]Elkahol Filelly signifies lead ore of Tafilelt.
[39]The hayk of the Arabs is a plain piece of cloth, of wool, cotton, or silk, and is thrown over their under dress, somewhat similar to the Roman toga.