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body of water into a handome marble basin. All 
the rooms are vaulted and without windows; they have 
only small holes in the roof to receive the daylight, 
which are filled with glass. The floor is chequered 
with well arranged various colours. The rooms, which 
are always heated from below, contain small closets to 
withdraw to, and to make the ablutions. 
The baths are all the day open to the public. The 
men go there in the morning, and the women in the 
evening. I went there generally at night and took the 
whole house to myself, in order to prevent interruption 
from strangers; some friend and two of my servants 
usually accompanied me. The first time I went there, 
I observed that pails full of hot water were placed with 
symmetry in the corners of every room and cabinet. I 
asked the reason of this? " Do not touch them sir," 
answered all the people belonging to the bath; " do not 
touch them!" Why not? " These pails are for the 
people below." Who are they? " The demons who 
come here to bathe themselves at night." On this topic 
they told me many ridiculous stories. As I have this 
long while declared war against the devil and all his earth- 
ly vicegerents, I had the satisfaction of employing in 
my bath some of these pails of water, and of thus depri- 
ving these poor devils of their entertainment. 
Fez has an hospital which is very richly endowed, 
and used only for the treatment of lunatics. It is very 
strange, that a great part of the funds to maintain this 
establishment has been bequeathed by the wills of vari- 
ous charitable testators for the express purpose of assis- 
ting and nursing sick cranes and storks, and of burying 
them when dead. 
They believe that the storks are men from some dis- 
tant islands, who at certain seasons of the year take the 
