[6]This must have been from native report, as the expedition was made in winter. If he had said that the snow never quite disappears, and sometimes falls heavily, even in summer, his statement would have been accurate enough.
[7]Mentioned in the text at [p. 294.]
[8]This is evidently the river Ziz of Leo Africanus; and in his time, as at the present day, travellers going from Fez to Segelmese (modern Tafilelt) followed the course of the Ziz, or Siss. He also speaks of a river Ghir, which may possibly have been the affluent of the Siss mentioned by Rohlfs; but the particulars given are vague and scanty. It is interesting to remark that in Leo’s day the valley of the Siss was inhabited by a hardy and energetic Bereber tribe named Zanaga, probably the same as the Azanegues whom Cà da Mosto found about Oued Noun. They have since migrated across the Sahara, and still calling themselves Zanega, and speaking a Bereber dialect, are dangerous neighbours to the negro tribes of the Senegal.
[9]A portion of this map, containing the coast of Africa from the Straits of Gibraltar to the latitude of the Canary Islands, was published (in facsimile) by Count Baldelli Boni of Florence in his edition of Marco Polo, and is reproduced in Mr. Major’s valuable work, ‘The Life of Prince Henry the Navigator.’ London, 1868.
[10]Afrikanische Reisen, von Gerhard Rohlfs. Bremen, 1867.
[11]The scope of these remarks being limited to the geography of South Marocco, I have not noticed several recent publications, not devoid of interest and value, but in which no important contribution is made to our geographical knowledge. We have referred in the text to papers by MM. Beaumier, Balansa, and Lambert, in the Bulletin of the French Geographical Society. A more considerable work, entitled ‘Morocco and the Moors,’ by Arthur Leared, M.D., appeared in 1874. It contains much information carefully collected by the author, along with a lively account of his own experiences, but circumstances prevented him from entering on new ground.
APPENDIX D.
ON SOME OF THE ECONOMIC PLANTS OF MAROCCO.
By Joseph Dalton Hooker.