TRAVELS IN BARBARY. 
almost like a high crowned hat, turned bottom up- 
wardsw The favourite dish is cuscusu. In kill- 
ing any animals, they turn its head towards Mec- 
ca, make a short prayer, and then cut its throat. 
Their hatred of Christians is unbounded. They 
have three gradations of reproach ; the first is 
" cuckold the second " Jew and the last 
" Christian." None, who have not witnessed the 
utter abomination in which the Jews are held, can 
feel the full force of this preference. All games 
of hazard are prohibited ; " eating, drinking, 
" sleeping, women, horses, and prayers," engross 
nearly the whole of their time. 
This author agrees with all others, as to the 
veneration in which saints are held in Morocco. 
It is difficult to say how men are raised to the 
character of saints : any extraordinary qualifica- 
tion, any remarkable crime, sometimes pure idiot- 
ism, raise them to this rank. Several of the em- 
peror's horses were saints ; one in particular was 
held in such reverence by that monarch, that any 
person who had committed the most enormous 
crime, or even killed a prince of the royal blood, 
if he took hold of the sainted horse, was perfectly 
secure. Several of the captives had saved their 
lives by this manoeuvre. It is judged a peculiar 
favour, if, after the emperor and the horse have 
successively drunk, the bowl is handed to any 
third person. The superstitions prevalent in this 
