"Yes, Yes," Observed The Bashaw, "I Know All About Him; I
Don't Want To Catch Him Yet; He's Not Fat Enough.
When he has gorged a
little more, I'll have his head off."
The Emperor of Morocco, however, usually treats his bashaws of the coast
with greater consideration than those of the interior cities, the former
being more in contact with Europeans, his Highness not wishing his
reputation to suffer in the eyes of Christians.
CHAPTER III.
The Posada. - Ingles and Benoliel. - Amulets for successful
parturition. - Visits of a Moorish Taleb and a Berber. - Three Sundays
during a week in Barbary. - M. Rey's account of the Empire of
Morocco. - The Government Auctioneer gives an account of Slavery and the
Slave Trade in Morocco. - Benoliel as English Cicerone. - Departure from
Tangier to Gibraltar. - How I lost my fine green broadcloth. - Mr.
Frenerry's opinion of Maroquine Affairs.
I took up my stay at the "English Hotel" (posada Ingles), kept by
Benoliel, a Morocco Jew, who spoke tolerable English. A Jerusalemitish
rabbi came in one day to write charms for his wife, she being near her
confinement. The superstition of charms and other cognate matters, are
shared alike by all the native inhabitants of Barbary. It often happens
that a Marabout shrine will be visited by Moor and Jew, each investing
the departed saint with his own peculiar sanctity. So contagious is this
species of superstition, that Romish Christians, long resident in
Barbary, assisted by the inventive monks, at last discover the Moorish
or Jewish to be a Christian saint.
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