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ENVIRONS OF FEZ. 
which plays in an inner court and invites numbers to sleep 
within its cooling influence. 
Neither inns nor hotels are to be found in Fez ; their 
place is supplied only by fandacs similar to those which I 
have already described. Here travellers who possess beasts 
of burden are obliged to sleep on the ground beside them, 
and themselves to provide them with forage. They usually 
take their meals at the mosque, pass the greater part of the 
day there, and would sleep there if permitted. The pro- 
prietors of the fandacs exact six felouses per head for the 
cattle, a sum equivalent to two French sous. 
Two hills, which command the city are defended each 
by an insignificant fortress, having embrasures but no can- 
non : one is situated nearly S. E,, and the other, in which 
some prisoners were confined, is to the N. W. 
The immediate environs, for two or three miles round, 
are highly cultivated, and produce abundance of vines, and 
olive, fig, apple and pear trees ; near the wall are mulberry- 
trees of considerable height. I have seen flower- gardeners 
selling in the markets a great variety of flowers, similar to 
those which adorn our parterres in France. At some dis- 
tance from the town are a great number of little mausoleums, 
in which the remains of the most distinguished sherifs are 
deposited, 
Fez is computed to contain about twenty thousand in- 
habitants, all either artificers or traders, who carry on an 
extensive commerce in European manufactures, which they 
export to Tafilet and Timbuctoo as well as to the adjacent 
mountainous countries. 
The 14th of August, at seven in the morning, I quitted 
the fandac and walked through the city with my leathern 
bag thrown over my shoulder. A long street conducted 
me to the western gate, where 1 hired a mule to carry me to 
Mequinaz ; and, our provision for the journey being prepared, 
we departed, directing our course W. N. W., over a smooth 
