326 SECOND STAY AT MOGADOR. 



CHAPTER xirr. 



Second stay at Mogador — Plants obtained through native collectors — 

 Outrage committed by the Haha people — Story of the troubles in 

 Haha — Farewell presents to our servants and escort — An un- 

 punctual tradesman corrected — Exports from Mogador — Caravans 

 from Timbuktou — Jewish wedding — Voyage in the Lady Ilai-c- 

 locli — Land at Saflfi — Excursion ashore — Land at Mazagan — Eeturn 

 to Tangier, and thence to England. 



However pleasant were our recollections of the rough life 

 we had been leading for the past five weeks, we could not 

 fail to appreciate the physical comfort involved in a return 

 to the habits of civilised life at Mogador. A chair to sit 

 upon, a table at which to eat one's meals, a hundred other 

 things to which daily use makes us quite insensible and 

 indifferent, become luxuries to one who has for some time 

 been deprived of them. 



We had no lack of occupation during the four days of 

 our stay at Mogador. The large harvest of dried plants 

 collected during our journey had to be put in order and 

 safely packed for conveyance to England. It had been 

 our prime object to obtain as far as possible a complete 

 representation of the Flora of the territory which we had 

 been able to explore ; and for that purpose we had made 

 it a point to carry away a specimen, or at least a fragment, 

 of every species, even the commonest, from each district 

 that we traversed. In this way our collections represent, 

 not merely the constituents of the South Marocco flora, 

 but, to a great extent, the distribution of the several 

 species. Besides attending to this, our main object, we 

 did not fail to collect duplicates of most of the new and 

 rare species seen during our journey for distribution to the 



