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JOURNEY TO RABAT. 
On the IGth of August, at six in the morning, I mounted 
my ass, not without the assistance of my guide, which on 
account of my w^eakness I was unable to dispense with : we 
travelled due north for about an hour, then turned N. W. 
till nine in the morning. The route is interrupted by hills, 
and turns a little to the south. About two o'clock we halted 
under the shade of a zizyphus lotus, to repose during the 
extreme heat : at three we resumed our route to the north, 
till half-past four, and then proceeded N. W. On the road 
we met a traveller in the utmost distress on account of the 
death of his horse, for, besides the inconvenience of prose- 
cuting his journey on foot, the poor man was compelled also 
to carry his saddle to some inhabited place ; my guide took 
pity upon him and placed his saddle behind me, which suited 
me well, for I was so weak that I could scarcely sit up, and 
this saddle made a convenient support for my back. 
At six in the evening, we reached a considerable brook, 
which runs S. S. W., and afterwards west, and stopped to 
slake our thirst at it. I had been suffering from fever nearly 
the whole day, and the heat had been overpowering ; I now 
lay down to take a short repose. During this halt, the 
Moor, who was not the owner of the horse he had lost, ob- 
tained from a sherif a certificate of its death : the sherif, 
having interrogated me in common with the other witnesses 
of the event, gave on our evidence the writing which testified 
that the horse had died without any fault on the part of its 
rider. 
At sun-set, after having eaten some figs given us by the 
Berbers, we proceeded northwards till eight o'clock, when 
we reached a camp, provided with a tent that served as a 
mosque, and was destined also for the reception of travel- 
lers ; we took up our quarters in it, and the inhabitants of 
the camp brought us supper. This spot is covered with 
prickly shrubs. 
At two o'clock in the morning of the 17th, we quitted 
