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situated in a wood on the mountains; at our return from 
it we were accompanied by more than a thousand horse- 
men, who amused themselves with horse- racing and 
sham-fighting. We went afterwards to a palace which 
the sultan Sidi Mohamed had been constructing in the 
said plain; 1 found in one of its rooms a falcon, which 
had been hiding itself; I took it along with me. 
Some months afterwards, as we were crossing a 
shallow river > one of the soldiers* who was not far 
from me, discovered a large fish about two feet and a 
half long, and which was stunned with the noise of the 
passage of the horses; the soldier therefore, found it easy 
to thrust his sword through it, and presented it to me. 
It is impossible to describe the happy omens which 
the capture of the bird and of the fish afforded my 
companions. 
Having terminated these amusements, to the parti- 
cipation of which the inhabitants of Mogador were ad- 
mitted, I returned to Morocco, escorted by about fif- 
teen horse, who were commanded by an officer. I had 
occasion on this journey to make use of the umbrella, 
which is reserved for the sultan, his sons and brethren, 
and prohibited to every other individual. 
I returned by the same road on which I came, and 
as my name and reputation had now become known 
and was preceding me, all the inhabitants of the neigh- 
bouring douars of the road waited for me to receive 
me in ceremony: the armed men, on horseback, formed 
a hedge, and were the first who saluted me with a low bow, 
and with the cry of " Allah iebark omor Sidina" " God 
bless the days of our Lord;" they were followed by 
the old men and children, who paid me the same com- 
