LETTER VII.
Sail for Tetuan—Appearance of the Coast—Enter the Boosega
River—Curious Towers of Defence—Custom-house—Female Dress—Enter
Tetuan over a Road of unlevelled Rock—Disagreeable Streets—Well
received by the Governor—Public Markets—Socco—An Auction Market.
LETTER VIII.
Tetuan—The Jews much oppressed there—particularly the
Females—Costume—Singularity of the Streets in the Jewish
Town—Ceuta—Would be invaluable to England—Melilla—Summoned to
visit the Emperor.
LETTER IX.
Journey to Larache—Annual Socco of St. Martin—No Christian permitted
to witness it—Express Order for that Purpose in the Author's
Favour—Specimen of native medical Skill—Reception at
Larache—Complain of the Impositions of Governor Ash-Ash—Comparative
Tariff—Effect the Renewal of the old Tariff with increasing
Advantages.
LETTER X.
Depart from Larache with a little Army—Moorish military Salute—Numerous Villages—Customary Procession of the Inhabitants—Judicial Arrangements—River Beth resembles the Po—Herds of Camels—Arrive at Mequinez—French Falsehood again put down—Excellent Road from Mequinez—Fertility and Luxuriance of the adjacent Country—Procession to the Sanctuary of Sidy Edris—Multiplicity of Saints—Ceremony demonstrative of the Emperor's Favour—Take possession of my new Residence.
LETTER XI.
Imperial Review of eighty thousand Cavalry—The Palace—Introduction to the Emperor—Visit the Seraglio—Beauty of the Sultana—Her Indisposition—Her Influence over the Emperor—His Person described.