brisson's narrative. 
church-yard ; the outside of the seraglio was not 
unhke 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. Inflam- 
ed with resentment at the insults to which he was 
exposed from the religious bigotry of the Maho- 
metans, and soured with the hardships he endur- 
ed in the desert, to which the Arabs were equally 
obnoxious, but which they were more able to en- 
counter, he gives every circumstance the most 
malicious construction. To a Frenchman of fine 
feelings, that appearance of insensibility which 
misery produces, assumed the form of deliberate 
cruelty. The general outline of the picture he 
delineates seems to be sufficiently correct, but the 
minute figures are probably in the style of carica- 
ture. Like a certain painter of the Flemish 
school, he cannot be charged with wilful exagge- 
ration ; but the rancour of his ulcerated mind 
darkened the faces of his devils, and gave their 
features a peculiar expression of malice. As he 
traversed some of the districts of the desert, at a 
great distance from the shore, his remarks on the 
manners of the Arabs who inhabit the interior 
are extremely interesting. 
