[40]There is in the middle of the town a mattamora, or dungeon, where they used to confine their Christian captives taken by the corsairs.
[41]In distinction from El Bahaira, which implies a kitchen garden.
[42]It is well known that the vessels formerly fitted out by the town of Salée, for the purpose of capturing the defenceless merchant ships of Europe, were navigated by desperate banditti.
[43]One of the entrances of the town.
[44]The Count was nephew to the Duke de Crillon, and had been confined in France during the reign of Robespierre, but had effected his escape; the rigour of his confinement, however, brought on a disorder which carried him off.
[45]Subterraneous vaults, or holes made in the form of a cone, where corn is deposited, and these being closed at the opening, it will keep thirty years or more.
[46]Formerly called Anafa, probably from the quantity of anise-seed grown in the neighbourhood, anafa being the Arabic word for anise-seed.
[47]These mountains are said to abound in iron, as the name expresses; they are covered with bole armoniac or red bole.
[48]Saweera being derived from Tasaweera, which, in the African Arabic, signifies a drawing or painting.
[49]A cargo of corn free of duty, was given by the Emperor to the person who presented him with this gun.