quor, the paradox will immediately vanish. After viewing the
mitfere, or cistern, and batteries at Mazagan, we mounted at four
o'clock, and arrived at Azamor at seven o'clock P.M., pitched the
tents in a large spacious fondaque, or caravansera, in the centre
of the town. We were annoyed during the night by thousands of
storks, the cluttering of whose bills would not permit us to sleep.
This town is in the centre of a beautiful country. On the 11th
June, at noon, we pursued our journey, and reached Sancet Urtemma
at eight o'clock P.M. This is a dangerous country, infested with
robbers, who, from the undulating face of the country, have many
modes of escape; we, therefore, retired into a solitary retreat,
and lay on our arms, without sleep, all night. At six o'clock next
morning, being the 12th June, we started, and arrived at Dar el
Beida at twelve. Here I was hospitably entertained by the agents of
the Spanish house of the Cinquo Gremos of Madrid, who were
established here for the purpose of shipping corn to Spain. We left
Dar el Beida, at half-past three, and reached Fedalla at half-past
seven. This is a fine productive country, abounding in grain as
well as Dar el Beida. On the 13th we started at four o'clock, and
reached El Mensoria at seven; stopped and dined, mounted at ten
A.M. and arrived at Rabat at seven o'clock, P.M. after a journey
from Mogodor, of 80-1/2 hours of actual travelling, or 242 English
miles.[111]

[Footnote 111: Calculated at the rate of three miles an hour,
including stoppages and refreshments.]
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Rabat is the largest town on the coast of the empire, it is walled
round; its circumference is about four miles; an aqueduct conveys
abundance of water to the town from a distance of several miles.
The mausoleum of the sultan Muhamed, father to the present sultan
Soliman, is in the town of Rabat, it is a neat building, surrounded
by a colonade; here is a lamp continually burning, and a
_muden_[112], who is a fakeer, is continually proclaiming the
omnipotence of God, and that Muhamed is the prophet. "_La Allah,
ila Allah, wa Muhamed rassul Allah._" There is a very strong
battery towards the sea, at the mouth of the river, which is bomb
proof. The city wall is high, and is strengthened by several
bastions mounting ca