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Life amongst the suspicious and fanatic Moorish 
shepherds was by no means easy. The traveller, who 
had great difficulty in keeping his daily journal, was 
obliged to resort to all manner of subterfuges to obtain 
permission to explore the neighbourhood of his house. 
He gives us some curious details of the life of the 
Bracknas—of their diet, wdiicli consists almost entirely 
of milk; of their habitations, which are nothing more 
CAILLIE JOINS SOME MANDINGOES. 
' than tents unfitted for the vicissitudes of the climate; 
of their guehues, or itinerant minstrels ; their mode of 
producing the excessive embonpoint which they consider 
the height of female beauty ; the aspect of the country ; 
the fertility and productions of the soil, &c. 
The most remarkable of all the facts collected by 
Caillie are those relatino; to the five distinct classes into 
which the Moorish Bracknas are divided. These are 
the Hassanes, or warriors, whose idleness, slovenliness, 
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