[54]Though this permission was then granted, the laying of the cable was delayed until 1886-87.
[55]His son, then Consul at Mogador.
[56]The ‘arum arisarum,’ called ‘yerna’ by the Moors, is used by the inhabitants of Western Barbary as an article of food in times of great scarcity, though it is held by them to be poisonous without careful preparation. The tubers when collected are cut up in small pieces, which they wash in many waters and then steam, as they do their ‘siksu,’ after which they pound them into meal, of which they make cakes, mixed if possible with a little ‘dra’ (millet) meal. They also make this arum meal into a kind of porridge. This food appears to contain few nourishing qualities, and those who are reduced to live on it suffer much in health.
[57]Journal of Society for Psychical Research, March, 1891, p. 40.
[58]Mashallah.
[59]The loan referred to was that raised in England in 1862 to enable the Sultan to pay the Spanish war indemnity. See chapter xv. [p. 218.]
[60]Then Spanish Minister in Morocco.
[61]Sheríf of Wazan.
[62]Though Ordega acknowledged that the dead Moor had received two hundred lashes.
[63]Moorish Minister for Foreign Affairs.