3l8 THE LIFE OF 



gaiety occaftoned by the prejence of the Confuh.-^ 

 Mojqiies. — Gates of the town. — Abje& Jfate of the 

 Jews. — CharaEferof the Moors. — Their funerals, 

 — Moorifh troops. — Their arms. — Their horfes. — . 

 Their cavalry. — Remark on horfes' bits. — Their 

 evolutions. — Surprifed that any one could perform 

 their manxuvres on a plain f addle. — The Moorifh 

 mode of Jloeing horfes. — The author procures a 

 horfe to be fhoed in the European fajhion. — Barba^ 

 rous manner of fajiening horfes in the ftahle. — 

 Manner of travelling in Barbary, 



W E brought El Corfo's prize fafe into Gib- 

 raltar; and as Lieutenant Down went afhore 

 before we came to anchor, I fent a letter by 

 him to General O'Hara, Governor of that gar- 

 rifon. In this letter, which I had prepared at 

 Tangier, when I did not exped fo foon to reach 

 Gibraltar, I had explained my fituation to that 

 General ; I had in fadt given him a brief recital 

 of the mofl: material events in which I had been 

 involved finoe I left England; and this I in- 

 tended to have fent by the earlieft opportunity. 

 I reached the Rock however in a very unlucky 

 moment ; for jufl before our arrival a plot had 

 been difcovered, which was faid to have for its 

 objedl the burning of the arfenal : this occa- 

 fioncd a general alarm ; and an order to appre- 

 hend all Grangers and foreigners ; the latter of 



whom 



