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which is called Oudaias. Some of these troops are in 
commission in the provinces, or detached to them; the 
rest are about the sultan. Almost all of them are cav- 
alry, and known under the name of Bokhara which they 
took when they placed themselves under an expounding 
Imaum of this name, whose doctrine prevails in Moroc- 
co. 
, Though Muley Soli man led but a retired life and with- 
out any luxury, yet his household occasions considera- 
ble expenses, on account of the great number of his wo- 
men and children. The law allows him but four wives, 
besides his concubines, but he repudiates them often in 
order to take new ones. The repudiated women are 
sent to Taffilet, where he grants them a pension. I 
have often seen inhabitants present him with their daugh- 
ters. At first they were admitted into the harem as 
servants, and if they pleased him, were raised to the 
rank of his women, to be repudiated in their turn. Mu- 
ley Soliman finds no scruple in cohabiting with two of 
his own sisters; the doctors, however, did not approve 
of this conduct, nor of the custom of drinking wine at 
night, which had been adopted in the harem, as both 
are contrary to the law of the prophet. 
Muley Soliman is sober. He eats with his fingers 
like other Arabs; but when I was invited to his table ? 
he always ordered a wooden spoon to be given to me, 
as the law forbids the use of any table utensils made of 
rich metals. His plates were therefore not different 
from those of his subjects. He eats no other dishes but 
those which are prepared by his negro women in the 
harem; when he dined at my house he eat without difii- 
