234; Accoimt o/' Alexander Scott's CaiAivUy^ 
aside his musket^ and asked Scott who he was. His question 
was briefly answered, when the Moor advancing^ took Scott by 
the hand, told him he was safe, led him to his house, and gave 
him food. 
He afterwards desired Scott to write to the English Consul 
at Mogador ; and Scott did so. This man, leaving Scott un- 
der the care of his brother and his son, set off with the letter ; 
and after an absence of eight days, returned with a letter from 
William Willshire, Esq. the English Consul at Mogador *, who 
sent a horse for Scott to ride upon, and 27 dollars to buy pro- 
visions. 
After recruiting himself for three days longer, Scott, accom- 
panied by the Moor, set off, and arrived safe at Mogador in 
five days, during which they travelled at the rate of at least 
thirty miles per day. 
As the place where Scott encountered the Moor is not above 
a mile and a half from Wadnoon, that place may be consider- 
ed as about 150 miles from Mogador. Near the Moor’s house 
was a river as large as canals usually are in England. This 
river flows through the town of Wadnoon, and is fresh until it 
meets the tide from the sea. 
From the neighbourhood of Wadnoon, Scott saw to the east- 
ward mountains whose tops were covered with snow, which he 
was told remained on them all the year round *k. 
At Mogador and at Wadnoon, the language spoken is called 
(by Scott) Schlech He received every kind attention from 
Mr Willshire, during his siay at Mogador, who paid his ransom 
to the Moor, on account of the Ironmongers’ Company of Lon- 
don. Scott reached Mogador on the 31st August, left it on the 
1 1th of November, in the Brig Isabella of Aberdeen, Captain 
James Cummings, and got to London on the 9th of December 
1816. 
* The humane attention of this amiable gentleman is gratefully acknowledged 
by Scott, Riley, and other unfortunates, and the willingness with which the Moor 
entered into Scott’s restoration to freedom, is the best proof of the fidelity with 
which the important office of redeeming Christians from slavery, is executed by 
the representative of Britain at Mogador. 
“j* The ridge of Atlas. 
■}: Major Rennell thinks this may be Skilha. 
