[44]The late Sultan Sid Mohammed, the descendant of Sultan Mulai Ahmed, was a good mathematician, and also very clever as a mechanist. He mended and cleaned his own watches. When I presented H.M. with a breech-loading gun, and at his request took it and the lock to pieces, I bungled in putting them together. H.M., taking the gun from me, at once re-adjusted it.—J. H. D. H.
[45]On the site now occupied by the chief mosque.
[46]Pauper, or holy man.
[47]A delicate paste, partaking of the nature of Italian paste, but round in form, the best being no larger than dust shot.
[48]Ovis musimon.
[49]Cedrus Atlantica and Callitris quadrivalvis.
[50]Yet, according to Marmol, it may be inferred that by this pass the ‘Almoravides’ entered Western Barbary from Numidia.
[51]On this, as on all his other Missions, the members of Sir John Hay’s family and his ‘private friends’ were his personal guests, the ‘officials’ travelled at the expense of Government.
[52]Sultan Mulai Hassan.
[53]A white but much sunburnt Moorish servant of Sir J. H. D. H.