34 
" ter or two to buy a bournous. I am a saint; and if 
" you do not believe me, ask your servants or friends, 
" and you will find that I speak truth." I pretended 
to believe him, and gave him what he asked for. 
There was also another saint at Tangier, who either 
is an ideot or affects to be one. He always kept in the 
market-place, and announced his presence by a sort of 
\ °rc}aking, not unlike that of a duck or a goose. His 
^ress and manners were dirty in the highest degree, and 
too loathsome to describe. I have been told that 
this saint has publickly committed shocking outrages 
against decency. In fact, the stupidity of this nation is 
so extravagant, that an account of them would seem 
quite improbable, and fit for the Tales of the Arabian 
Nights. The fakih and the talbes pass over these tricks 
in silence, and leave the people in their folly, though 
they themselves know very well what to think of it, and 
conversed very frankly with me upon the subject. 
CHAPTER V. 
Jews, — Weights, measures, and money. — Commerce. — Natural history.— 
Geographical position. 
The Jews in Morocco are in the most abject state 
of slavery; but at Tangier it is remarkable that they live 
intermingled with the Moors, without having any se- 
parate quarter, which is the case in all other places 
where the Mahometan religion prevails. This distinc- 
tion occasions perpetual disagreements; it excites dis- 
putes, in which, if the Jew is wrong, the Moor takes his 
