28G 
TRAVELS IN THE SAHARA. 
hills. The plains in their neighbourhood swarm 
with enormous serpents. At last, they reached 
Guadnum, the asylum of the most daring rebels of 
all the Arabian tribes, the mart of the inhabitants 
of the desert, who come there to barter their ca- 
mels, peltry, gum, &c. for woollen stuffs, half 
white and half crimson ; for wheat, barley, dates, 
horses, tobacco, gunpowder, combs, and mirrors. 
This trade is entirely carried on by the Jews. 
The inhabitants live in a state of mutual distrust ; 
their houses are guarded by large dogs, and also 
their persons, when they walk through the city. 
Leaving Guadnum, they arrived at Mogadore, and 
were delivered up to the governor, who sent them 
with an escort to the emperor at Marocco, by 
whom Brisson was soon after set at liberty. The 
character of the inhabitants of Marocco differs little 
from that of the Arabs of the desert : They are 
not of so stout a make, but of a fairer complexion ; 
more accustomed to the sight of Europeans, but 
equally addicted to insulting them. The earthen 
ruinous walls of the palace resembled the enclosure 
of a church-yard ; the outside of the seraglio was 
not unlike a barn ; and the houses of the city of a 
very bad construction. The narrative of Brisson 
represents the Moors and the Arabs of the desert 
in the most unfavourable point of view. Inflamed 
with resentment at the insults to which he was ex- 
posed from the religious bigotry of the Mahome- 
