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has unfortunately no water; what they drink is taken 
from a spring near the sea-shore, at 180 fathoms dis- 
tance from town. There is another spring about two 
miles from the town, which is safe from the fire of the 
town. 
There is, at the extremity of the town, near the mouth 
of the river, a castle, which I was informed had been 
constructed by Muley Yesid. The fort, which is of a 
square form, has some small guns. The mouth of the 
port is defended by two batteries placed to the south, 
and by another battery or castle at the same side, but 
about 350 fathoms from the former, provided with can- 
non and mortars. At the north side of the river or port 
there is no kind of fortification. 
Three hundred fathoms southward of the last battery 
of cannon and mortars, there is on the river some works, 
which are seen from the sea- side, and resemble a fortress, 
They are, however, nothing else than the ruins of a house 
and wind-mill. 
At 60 fathoms E.S.E. off" the square castle is a cha- 
pel or sanctuary of a female saint, patron of the town. Her 
name is Lela Minana; her sepulchre is revered. I never 
have been able to follow the association of ideas, by which 
a faithful believer is brought to reconcile the canoni- 
zation of a woman, with the tacit exclusion from para- 
dise, to which the law subjects them. 
The south coast is formed by a rock, and the north 
side by a small sand- bank. 
By order of the sultan, the pasha of the town, Sidi 
Mohamed Salani, assigned me the best house in the 
