Sit TRAVELS IN BARBARY. 
meeting none except English, " grew very hun- 
* c gry, and made bold with two of them/' The am- 
bassador absolutely refused to proceed farther, un- 
less reparation was made for this outrage, upon 
which he had the satisfaction of seeing the ships 
released, and the privateers punished. 
The houses of Tetuan are good ; but the streets 
are extremely narrow, with no appearance of win- 
dows, except some small holes to look out at. They 
are lighted from a square court in the interior. 
They are generally only two stories high. The 
roofs are flat, and the Moorish women, who live in 
the upper apartments, walk and pay visits along 
them. Their mode of building is to make a large 
wooden case, into which they put the mortar ; and 
when it is dry, take away the case. The Basha is 
quite absolute in the province, and can take from 
any one houses, lands, horses, or whatever he pleas- 
es ; so that every one conceals any portion of wealth 
which by trade or industry he may have acquired. 
The females, as in all Mahometan states, are 
most rigidly confined. Many Moors, when their 
wives were at the greatest extremity, rather suffer- 
ed them to die, than send for a Christian physician ; 
even those who did so, delayed till they were at the 
point of death, when no remedies could avail. The 
ladies, however, when they met Europeans in the 
fields, or saw them from the tops of the houses, 
very readily took the opportunity of favouring them 
