WINDHUS. 
country are extremely various. One of the most 
general is that of " evil eyes/' which seems, in- 
deed, to exist more or less in almost every nation. 
The emperor of Morocco is said to have kept a 
favourite son constantly shut up, lest he should 
be exposed to this fatal influence. When rain is 
wanting, they endeavour to extort it by pure cla- 
mour and importunity. The children run about 
the streets, often for eight successive days, scream- 
ing with their whole might. If they fail, the 
saints and learned men join in the cry, and at last 
the emperor unites his voice. Should all these 
vociferations fail, they then thrust the Jews out 
of the town, with injunctions not to return, unless 
accompanied by rain ; arguing, that their impor- 
tunities will be so noisome, as must compel the 
Deity, out of pure self-defence, to grant the boon 
required. 
On the 13th of June the embassy set out for 
Mequinez, where the emperor then resided. On 
their way, they saw a number of dwaries (dowars), 
or moveable villages of the Arabs. These vil- 
lages are built in the form of a ring, leaving a 
large vacant space in the inside ; the shiek's house 
stands in the centre. In the plains of Fez, there 
are said to be three hundred thousand of these 
people ; in Morocco only a hundred thousand j but 
in Suz a very great number. When they wish to 
remove to another place for the convenience of 
