TRAVELS IN BARBARY. 
lary allowed by the emperor was very slender, that 
of the principal wife not exceeding half-a-crown a 
day ; the deficiency was made up, not very credi- 
tably, by presents from foreign ambassadors, or 
other persons who had favours to ask from the em- 
peror. 
Lempriere, seeing no prospect of effecting his 
departure, thought himself justified, by necessity, 
in having recourse to stratagem. He informed 
his patient, that he could not complete her cure 
without going himself to Gibraltar for the neces- 
sary medicines. The lady gave into the snare, 
and solicited the emperor so earnestly, that he at 
length granted our traveller permission to depart. 
From the time of Shaw and Lempriere, Barbary 
was visited by very few travellers, till the interest, 
excited by recent political events, drew forth a 
series of narratives, which have again brought us 
well acquainted with this quarter of the world. 
Colonel Keatinge has published " Travels in Eu- 
<s rope and Africa, comprising a Journey through 
" France, Spain, and Portugal, to Morocco. f> This 
journey, however, being performed in 1^85, does not 
bring down the information much later than Lem- 
priere. A Spaniard, travelling in the character of a 
Turk, and assuming the name of Ali Bey, has pub- 
* 4to, London, 1816. 
