TRAVELS IN THE SAHARA. %65 
the emperor. During his residence in Glimi, 
having better diet and clothes, he recovered his 
strength, which had been exhausted in the desert ; 
and relates, that when he asked victuals from the 
women, he never was refused. The French mer- 
chants at Mogadore, having been informed of the 
distress of their countrymen, with the English 
merchants resident in that place, employed an 
Arab to purchase the liberty of as many as could 
be found. Six were accordingly redeemed \ but, 
upon their arrival at Mogadore, they found them- 
selves exposed to the childish petulance of a bar- 
barian prince. As the Emperor of Marocco, only 
two months before, had given the most positive 
orders to his governors of provinces, in the vicinity 
of the desert, to use every method of extricating 
them from the wandering Arabs, he was extremely 
chagrined, that, in his own dominions, Christians 
had been able to accomplish what he had found 
impossible to effect. He therefore threatened to 
burn the first person alive, who, from that time, 
should dare to interfere in the redemption of a 
captive of any nation ; and, repaying the money 
which had been advanced, obliged the merchants 
to resign M. Saugnier and his companions, and 
caused them to be conducted to Marocco. Upon 
their arrival they were treated with unexpected 
kindness by the emperor, who immediately grant- 
ed them their liberty, and allowed them to return 
