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TRAVELS IN BARBARY. 
provisions or water, they load all their goods on 
their camels and oxen, on whose backs they also 
place their wives and children in large wicker 
baskets, and thus journey till they have found a 
convenient settlement. 
On the Sd of July, the embassy arrived at Me- 
quinez, and, on the 6th, it was announced that 
they would see the emperor. They entered the 
outward gate, and, passing through four large 
court-yards, came to some piazzas, where they sat 
for about half an hour. The monarch then ap- 
peared on horseback, with an umbrella over his 
head, and his guards behind, ranged in the form 
of a half-moon. When they came within four- 
score yards of him, he alighted, and prostrated 
himself to the earth in prayer. He remained for 
some minutes in that posture, with his face so 
close to the ground, that, in rising, the dust ad- 
hered to his nose. The ambassador bowing as he ' 
approached, the emperor nodded his head, and 
said several times Bono. When the letter from 
the king of Great Britain was taken out of a silk 
handkerchief, and presented, the prince declared 
his love of the English, and his readiness to grant 
every request made by them. He spoke so much 
himself, that it was difficult to bring him to any 
precise stipulations ; but when the treaty of peace 
was at last laid before him, he declared his satis- 
faction with its contents, and that though his 
