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thy men confers the highest honor on the metropolis 

 of West Barbary. 



There is but little difficulty in procuring an enrollment 

 among these disciples of Minerva, a native who is fond 

 of literature or science, and desirous of such an honor 

 has merely to submit his wish to the priests, and they, 

 after some deliberation, admit him as a brother or neo- 

 phyte as he may prove himself deserving : but he 

 must be careful to make an offering every year of a 

 little golden branch, a truly classical custom ; which, 

 no doubt, had its prototype in the " Aureus ramus" 

 which such bold spirits as ^Eneas had to deposit in the 

 temple of Proserpina; however, instead of fixing it "in 

 adve^so limine," the newly admitted member must 

 deposit it carefully in the hand of a bursar, appointed 

 to receive it. 



Now to my sketch. A A A is 



my first choice, because, in intellectual wealth, he stood 

 predominant, he was, moreover, a Warrior-chief as 

 well as a priest of Minerva, for the two are compatible 

 in West Barbary, such a head as he has must be worth 

 some hundred hands in an engagement where tactics 

 and manoeuvres are as necessary as weapons. I should 

 not suppose that he ever went to battle with a blood- 

 thirsty motive, never rejoiced in the fall of a foeman, 

 and was always more pleased with a flag of truce than 

 a combat ; far be it from me however to impute to this 

 gallant man a want of courage ; if he did not use his 

 weapons of destruction with as much exultation as his 

 brethren in arms, this was not the result of fear, but a 

 disinclination to destroy, a repugnance to waste human 

 life ; he was not even careful in his own defence, for I have 

 heard him assert that, on setting out on his warlike 

 expeditions, he has often forgotten to examine his arms, 

 and has absolutely gone through whole campaigns, 

 without flints for his rifle, and with an unserviceable 

 tomahawk. 



His countenance was elevated and enlightened by 

 intellect and pregnant with good will towards man ; 

 his searching eyes shot their glances around, through 



