Chap. LXXVIII. MOSQOT OF GO'GO'. 
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standing, and I could not make out half of what he 
said to me. I regretted this the more as he conducted 
me through the heaps of rubbish to a long narrow 
clay building at a short distance west from the 
mosque, where he wanted to show me something of 
interest, but the owner of the house refused me ad- 
mittance. 
Leaving then the furthermost huts on my right, I 
turned my steps towards the jingere-ber, and en- 
deavoured to make out as well as I could the plan of 
this building. 
According to all appearance, the mosque consisted 
originally of a low building, flanked on the east and 
west side by a large tower, the whole courtyard being 
surrounded by a wall about eight feet in height. 
The eastern tower is in ruins, but the western one 
is still tolerably well preserved, though its propor- 
tions are extremely heavy. It rises in seven terraces, 
which gradually decrease in diameter, so that while 
the lowest measures from forty to fifty feet on each 
side, the highest does not appear to exceed fifteen. 
The inhabitants still oifer their prayers in this sacred 
place, where their great conqueror, Haj Mohammed, 
is interred, although they have not sufficient energy 
to repair the whole. The east quarter of the mosque 
evidently was formerly the most frequented and best 
inhabited part of the town, and is entirely girded 
with a thick grove of siw6k bushes, which covers all 
the uninhabited part of the former city. The town, in 
its most flourishing period, seems to have had a circum- 
