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the bridle, and turning round they retreat with the same 
quickness. They load again full speed, and if the ene- 
my fall back they continue to fire and gain ground. 
But if the battle become warm, and they are attacked 
with the sword, we may imagine how great must be the 
embarrassment of men, who without any order have to 
hold the bridle of the horse and their long gun in one 
hand, and in the other to use a sword! In this case they 
place their gun across the saddle, which makes every 
man occupy the space of two, and leaves their sides un- 
covered. It is easy to conceive what the effect of an 
European line of battle must be on such an assemblage 
of men! Hence the Moor on horseback avoids as long as 
possible any engagement with the sword; he only relies 
on the swiftness of his attack and retreat, and on the 
skill and manoeuvring with his gun; it is only in the 
last extremity that he makes use of his sword. 
It is calculated that the revenue of the emperor of 
Morocco amounts to twenty or five and twenty millions 
of francs (about / 1,000,000. to / 1,5250,000. sterling.) 
As he has few officers in civil employ, and they have 
no emoluments but their perquisites and some gratuities^ 
which, however, he grants them but very seldom; and 
as he has no occasion to maintain an army, because the 
law obliges every Mussulman to be a soldier in time of 
war, the largest part of his monies go to the treasury, 
which he keeps partly at Morocco, partly at Fez, but 
chiefly at Mequinez. 
The only soldiers which the sultan continually main- 
tains, are those who form his guard; they amount to 
about ten thousand men; most of them are negro slaves, 
whom he has bought or received as presents, or sons of 
antient negroes; the rest are Moors taken from a tribe 
