n. xx. 17. Judges,
i. 34.]

[Footnote 117: Some persons consider several tribes of these
Berebbers to be colonies of the ancient Phenicians.]

On the morning of the 20th June, we struck our tents at six
o'clock, and pursued our journey to L'Araich, and soon entered the
territory that belongs to the agriculturists of El Kassar Kabeer, a
125 beautiful country not unlike that of Ait-Amor in appearance, but
bearing the evidences of agricultural industry. Here we discovered
magnificent and extensive plantations of olives, immense
citron-trees, orange-groves, and spacious vineyards, peaches,
apricots, greengages, and walnuts were also the produce of this
country, besides excellent wheat of a large and long transparent
grain like amber, yielding, when ground into flour, from fifteen to
twenty per cent. increase, in quantity. Anxious now to overtake His
Excellency the ambassador, for the purpose of being present at his
entry into Tangier, we accelerated our pace, with a view of coming
up with him at L'Araich. We arrived at the forest of L'Araich at
dusk, and travelled through it all night till five o'clock next
morning.

Having travelled incessantly twenty-three hours without halting,
being much fatigued, I desired Deeb to take a little rest with me
in an adjacent field, and we sent on Bel Hage with the baggage to
L'Araich, to wait our arrival at the ferry. We pursued our journey
at seven o'clock, and entered the town at nine. On reaching the
ferry, Bel Hage introduced a courier, who had been dispatched to me
from Fas, by a friend of mine, who informed me how much he, and
many of my Moorish friends had been disappointed, that I did not
enter that city, where I understood preparations had been made for
my entertainment, in the odoriferous gardens of the merchants of
126 Fas. The courier brought me a present of gold wire and gold thread,
of the manufacture of Fas, and some gold ornaments of filligrane
work from Timbuctoo, of the manufacture of Jinnie. It is more than
probable that the Fasees learned the art of manufacturing gold
thread from the Egyptians: it is much superior to that which is
imported into Barbary from Marseilles. The ladies ornament their
cambric dresses with it, and the Fas gold-thread never loses its
colour by washing, but