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rebuilt in modern times. The mosque ElMoazinn, 
which is about 300 years old, stood near my house, 
and is a really magnificent building; ten ministers are 
employed in its service; their wages are but trifling, 
and have been assigned to them by the sultan from 
the funds of the mosque; they are, therefore, like all 
other ministers of Morocco, obliged to work, or to 
commit pious frauds of talismans, &c. which they sell 
for the cure of diseases, poisoning wounds, witch- 
craft, or other accidents, in order to get their living. 
The saint and patron of Morocco is Sidi Belabbess; 
his mosque is like that of Mulei Edris at Fez, composed 
of a square saloon, covered with an octangular cupola, 
and carved and painted with arabesques; and on the 
outside covered with varnished and coloured tiles. The 
sepulchre of the saint is covered with many pieces of 
woollen and silk, the one above the other; the chest for 
the alms is on its side. The floor and part of the walls 
are covered with carpets and other hangings. 
Adjoining the saloon or mosque there are various 
court-yards, with arcades and rooms to lodge the poor, 
the maimed, the invalids, or the old; these present a 
most shocking sight; for besides the frightful spectacle of 
evils, there is also an entire want of those wise regula- 
tions which are observed in Europe in establishments of 
this kind. Eighteen hundred wretches of both sexes 
are actually provided for in this establishment by means 
of the alms and funds of the mosque. 
This sanctuary serves as an asylum for those who are 
prosecuted by despotism; from this place they can nego- 
ciate to obtain their pardon, and wait till they safely re- 
join society, certain that this asylum will never be 
