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The hearings before the cadi are not quite so tumul- 
tuous as those before the kaid; they are transacted near- 
ly in the same manner; his decisions are taken from the 
precepts of the koran, and from tradition, so far as they 
are not in opposition to the pleasure of the sovereign. 
After a case has been judged by the kaid or by the cadi, 
there is no appeal for the parties but to the sultan him- 
self. There are no intermediate tribunals. 
Provisions are plentiful at Tangier, and very cheap, 
especially meat, which is very fat. They make very 
good bread, and even the most common sort is not bad; 
the water is likewise good, though little care is taken of 
the conduits. There is no public tavern for the sale of 
wine; the consuls order their own supplies from Eu- 
rope. 
The fruits are excellent, and consist chiefly of figs^ 
melons, grapes, and Tetuan oranges. 
The principal food of the inhabitants of all the king- 
dom of Morocco consists of a sort of paste called cous- 
coussou; it is made only of flour and water, kneaded to 
a hard paste, which is divided into small pieces of a cy- 
lindrical form as big as a linger; these are afterwards 
reduced to grains, by slicing them, and by dividingthem 
dexterously with the hands; they are then spread upon 
a napkin, and exposed to the sun or to the open air to 
be hardened. To boil this couscoussou, it is put with 
butter in a kind of pot, whose bottom is full of small 
holes. This pot is placed over a larger one, which the 
poor fill with water only, but the better sort add some 
meat and poultry. This double pot being placed before 
the fire, the steam which ascends from the lower one en- 
ters through the holes of the upper, and boils the cous- 
coussou above. If there be meat in the lower pot, it is 
served up on a plate, surrounded and covered with the 
