[30] If Coming Direct From Government, It Would Have Greater Weight.

He thinks, besides, there are a good number of Moors who are favourable to abolition.

Of the connexion between the east and Morocco, he says, all the Barbary States look up to the Sultan of Constantinople as to a great authority, and during the last few years, an active correspondence, on religious matters, has been carried on between Morocco and Constantinople, chiefly through a celebrated doctor of the name of Yousef. If the Turkish Sultan, therefore, would _bona-fide_ abolish the slave-markets, I have no doubt this would produce an impression in Morocco favourable to abolition.

During the time I was in Morocco, I distributed some Arabic tracts, translated from the English by Professor Lee of Cambridge, on the abolition of slavery. A few Arabic Bibles and Hebrew New Testaments were also placed at my disposal for circulation by the Societies. I also wrote an Anti-slavery circular to the British merchants of Mogador, on Lord Brougham's Act.

CHAPTER VIII.

El-Jereed, the Country of Dates. - Its hard soil. - Salt Lake. Its vast extent. - Beautiful Palm-trees. - The Dates, a staple article of Food. - Some Account of the Date-Palm. - Made of Culture. - Delicious Beverage. - Tapping the Palm. - Meal formed from the Dates. - Baskets made of the Branches of the Tree. - Poetry of the Palm. - Its Irrigation. - Palm-Groves. - Collection of Tribute by the "Bey of the Camp."

El-Jereed, or Belad-el-Jereed, the country of dates, or literally, the country of the palm branches, is a part of the Sahara, or the hot dry country lying in the immediate vicinity of the Great Desert.

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