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The sultan, Muley Soliman y appeared to be about 
forty years old; he is tall and lusty; his countenance has 
the expression of kindness; it was rather handsome, and 
not too brown; it was distinguished by large and lively 
eyes. He spoke fast, and comprehended quickly. His 
dress was very simple, not to say plain, for he was al- 
ways wrapt up in a coarse hhaik; his gait was easy. He 
is fakih or doctor in law, and his education is entirely 
Mussulman. His court has no splendour. During all 
the time of his stay at Tangier he was always encamped 
to the west of the town in tents, placed without order; 
those of the sultan were in the centre of a large and va- 
cant space, surrounded with a parapet of painted cloth, 
representing a wall. In Muley Abdelmelek's tent, 
which was very ample, there was no other furniture than 
two mattrasses, a large carpet and a silver candlestick, 
with a lighted wax candle. Round each tent the horses 
and mules of its proprietor were fastened, and in the 
whole camp I saw only two camels. Notwithstanding 
the confusion and disorder of this camp, I calculated 
that it contained about six thousand men. 
The kaid accompanied the sultan one day's journey, 
and at his return he urged me, with repeated requests, 
to apply to him for every thing that I might want. I 
begged him to send a boat to Gibraltar to fetch some 
tents and other articles which might be necessary for 
my projects. 
