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is placed. Having one day brought my instruments 
with me, I observed the passage of the sun in order to 
take the latitude from this point, and I marked the pil- 
lar to rectify the position of the dial which had been a 
little deranged. The Sultan was present at these opera- 
tions. Upon another day the Sultan himself showed me 
the interior of the palace, and some very handsome 
apartments which were constructed in the European man- 
ner, with large windows looking into the garden, and a 
fine square saloon which had no furniture except some 
carpets; but the staircase is badly placed, dark and very 
mean. The same garden contains a passage which con- 
ducts to the house of Muley Abdsulem, situated near 
the palace. This passage is not guarded, but its doors 
are always shut; a porter opens them to the Sultan, to 
Mulei Abdsulem, and to me; nobody else daring to en- 
ter into them without an express order from the Sultan. 
The house of Mulei Abdsulem, which is also very large, 
had likewise a garden before its entry. 
The quarter for the Jews was by itself, about a mile 
round, and situated between the enclosure of the palace 
and of the city. It was, like the others, half ruined, and 
contained nothing remarkable, but a well-stocked mar- 
ket place. The gate, which was shut during night and 
on Saturdays, was kept by a Ka'id. 
Morocco is said to contain about two thousand Jews, 
who all live in their quarter, and, of whatever age or sex 
they be, they dare not come into the town unless bare 
foot. They are treated with the utmost contempt. 
Their dress is black and shabby, such as the Jews of 
Tangier. Their chief seems to be a good kind of man. 
