CITY OF MOROCCO. Si 
tlience to Mogador they met with not!)irig but villages, and castles 
built on the summits of high mountains. At a distance these look 
like superb palaces; but on approaching them, their wails are 
found to consist of nothing bat mud, and are built in the most 
shapeless and disgusting form. They were now not so well fed ; 
and the nearer they approached to a town^ the less hospitality 
they received. 
At length, after a journey of sijity-'six days, they arrived at 
Mogador, where Messrs. Dupras and Cabannes came to them, 
and without being disgusted at then* revolting appearance, assui ed 
them that their misfortunes were at an end. They took \^ itli 
diem Sidy-Sellem and his son, and their house became the asy- 
liun of the whole. 
The same day M. de Brlsson and the baker were presented to 
thé governor of the place, who informed them that they must 
proceed to Morocco, as the emperor desired to see all the Chris- 
tian slaves, and give them their liberty. 
Mogador isadvantngeously built; the batteries are strong, and 
kave a cannon at each embrasure ; but the mouth of the cannon 
rests on the bottom of the aperture, so that the pieces can be of no 
use but for shew. It is the same at Rabat, Salep, and Tangier ; 
tJie emperor having neither workmen capable of mounting tliem, 
nor timber fit for makino; the carriaoe^. 
Eight days afterwards Sidy-Sellem and the party set off for Mo- ^ 
rocco : they were furnished with mules, a tent, provisions, and 
men to wait on them; and after a journey of four days they - 
reached the capital. 
The city of Morocco is every thing but handsome ; tlie houses 
are of clay, and in the style of those of Gouachium, but lower, 
more dirty, and close. The streets are covered with lilth of 
every kind, including the bones and offal of the cattle that are 
killed. The emperor's palace is of the same kind as the other 
buildings, being of clay, and surromided by walls : it consists of 
çix vast squares. The mosque is built in the same manner, and 
the whole of the palace has a disgusting appearance. 
The unfortunate captives repaired to the house of the French 
consul-general, where they were to remain till they could be sent 
to France ; they were afterwards taken before the emperor, whom 
they found sitting in a sort of coach body. He looked at M. de 
Brisson for sonie time, and then told him that he had been 
wrecked through his own fault, by not keeping far enough from the 
shore. He then asked for ink and paper, and traced with a reed 
the four principal points of the com})ass to indicate that Paris 
was northwards ; after which he scratched about a dozen Roman 
characters, and gave the paper to M. de Brisson, askhig him if 
he could read it .'' On repeating a few other questions to shew 
