ged to wear a large straw hat,
with a brim about nine inches wide; this is their _badge of
separation_, a token of division between the clean and unclean,
which when seen in the country, or on the roads, prevents any one
from having personal contact with them. They are allowed to beg,
and accordingly are seen by the side of the roads, with their straw
hat badge, and a wooden bowl before them, to receive the charity of
passengers, exclaiming (_attanie m'ta Allah_) "bestow on me the
property of God;" (_kulshie m'ta Allah_) "all belongs to God!"
reminding the passenger that he is a steward of, and accountable
for the appropriation of his property; that he derives his property
from the bounty and favour of God. When any one gives them money,
they pronounce a blessing on him; as (_Allah e zeed kherik_) "may
God increase your good," &c. The province of Haha abounds in
lepers; and it is said that the Arganic[108] oil, which, is much
used in food throughout this picturesque province, promotes this
loathsome disease!

[Footnote 108: This oil, which is excellent, and generally used
for frying fish, should be thus prepared, according to the
learned Doctor Barata, who was pensioned physician to the
_Commercio_ of Mogodor, by which preparation it becomes
perfectly wholesome, and deprived of any leprous or other bad
quality: Take a quart of Argan oil, and put in it a large onion
cut in slices; when it boils add a piece of crumb of bread,
equal in size to an onion, then let it boil a few minutes more,
take it off, let it cool, and strain the oil through a sieve,
and bottle it for daily use.]

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The chain of Atlas, east of Marocco, continually covered with snow,
gives a pleasant coolness to the air of the city, in the summer
season, particularly in the morning and evening; the coolness is
generally said, however, to produce ophthalmia.[109] These
mountains are immensely high, and their magnitude makes them appear
not more than five miles from the city. It is, however, a day's
journey to the foot of them, after which the ascent is so gradual,
that it takes two days more to reach the snow. This part of the
chain of Atlas, east of the city of Marocco, is seen at sea, twenty
miles west of Mogodor, which latter place is a