6 . INTRODUCTION. 



letters, in this work a mere approximation to the sound is 

 attempted to be given. 



In the interest of the sportsman and the amateur collector 

 of specimens, it has been endeavoured to give a few hints as 

 to the localities where each may best gratify his tastes ; but 

 it would be foreign to the purpose and inapplicable to the 

 limits of this work to reproduce any of the varied information 

 which is to be found in the pages of Ford and other guide- 

 books. In the country districts of Spain, and especially 

 throughout Andalucia, nothing ever changes except the 

 Government. The country is still the Spain of Ford, we might 

 almost say of Don Quixote, and will probably remain so for 

 centuries, except as regards the power of the priesthood, which 

 is gradually waning and will doubtless soon cease to exist. 



In a general sense, travelling in Morocco is attended with 

 more expense and less comfort than in Spain. The total 

 absence of inns in the former country (except one or two at 

 Tangier and a few coast-towns) renders it necessary for the 

 European traveller to carry about not only a tent but a good 

 deal of extra baggage, cooking-appliances, &c., which would 

 otherwise be superfluous. The impedimenta are transported 

 on the backs of mules, which, may be hired at the rate of one 

 dollar per diem. One or two Moors must also be taken to 

 pitch tents, load and unload the pack-animals, and so make 

 themselves generally useful, which they always do. They 

 were usually paid one and sixpence a day each. The only 

 provisions which can be procured at the country villages consist 

 of fowls, eggs, butter, milk, and kuskoo-soo; the latter is a 

 peculiar preparation of flour, and may be considered the national 

 dish of Morocco. It is therefore advisable for a party travelling 

 in the interior to provide themselves with some tins of preserved 

 meat and vegetables, as well as with whatever wine, spirits, 

 &c. they might require. The most satisfactory way of making 

 an expedition through the country, I have found by experience, 



