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iikcwife, a Chriftian goes into the country to 

 any diilance from the gates of the town, the 

 Governor will not be anfwerable for any confe- 

 quences, unlefs he takes a Moor with him, one 

 of whom he will order to attend the traveller on 

 application being made. I, however, difpenfed 

 with this ceremony, and when the Governor 

 fent to tell me that I fliould take a Moor foldier 

 with me when I went any diftance, to prevent 

 infuk or ill treatment, I anfvvered, that Britifh 

 dragoons werje accuftomed to guard others, and 

 not to be guarded themfelves, and that I wore 

 ^ fword, to which I could perfectly trufl tny 

 own fafety. 



The funerals of the Moors are condycfled in 

 a way fufficiently flriking to a flranger ; they 

 are followed by a numerous croud, iinging in 

 j:he country fafliion ; the body is depofited in a 

 fort of t icr, and covered over, if a male, with 

 a woollen cloth, called there al haik ; and the 

 whole machme completely roiled up in it, if a 

 female. 



The troops of this country, in their prefent 

 ftate, are by no means tit to be oppofed to Eu- 

 ropean forces of any defcription; they "have no 

 idea of difcipline, and their arms and drefs are 

 (extremely ill calculated for the purpofes of war. 

 Their cavalry is the molt numerous and beft 

 part of their forces ; their horfes are excellent 



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