TRAVELS IN BARBARYr 
to attest the period when these sciences formed 
the glory of the Saracen name. 
In 1789 a request was transmitted to Mr Matray 
British consul at Tangier, from Muley Absulem, 
the favourite son of the emperor of Morocco, that 
an English medical man should be sent, to relieve, 
if possible, the precarious state in which his health 
then was. Liberal promises were made to the 
person who should undertake this journey. Mr 
Lempriere, surgeon, then resident at Gibraltar, 
was induced to consent, and obtained thus very 
intimate views of the manners and interior ar- 
rangements of this barbarous court. 
The prince being resident at Tarudant, Mr 
Lempriere travelled in the first instance along the 
coast of Morocco, but, till his arrival at Tarudant, 
nothing particularly novel occurred. This city, 
formerly the capital of a kingdom, is now only the 
chief place of the province of Suz, and a great 
part of the space enclosed within the ancient walls 
is unoccupied. The houses have apartments only 
on the ground floor, and as each is surrounded by 
a garden and wall, with numerous palm-trees in- 
termixed, the whole has the appearance rather of 
a collection of hamlets, or even of country houses, 
than of a city. It lies twenty miles south of the 
Atlas, and may be considered as the frontier town 
of this part of the emperor's dominions ; for the 
