of a
leg or an arm.

Many similar circumstances might be here adduced relative to the
numerous and populous villages dispersed through the extensive
Shelluh province of Haha, all which shared a similar or a worse
fate. Travelling through this province shortly after the plague had
exhausted itself, I saw many uninhabited ruins, which I had before
witnessed as flourishing villages; on making enquiry concerning the
169 population of these dismal remains, I was informed that in one
village, which contained six hundred inhabitants, four persons only
had escaped the ravage. Other villages, which had contained four or
five hundred, had only seven or eight survivors left to relate the
calamities they had suffered. Families which had retired to the
country to avoid the infection, on returning to town, when all
infection had apparently ceased, were generally attacked, and died;
a singular instance of this kind happened at Mogodor, where, after
the mortality had subsided, a corps of troops arrived from the city
of Terodant, in the province of Suse, where the plague had been
raging, and had subsided; these troops, after remaining three days
at Mogodor, were attacked with the disease, and it raged
exclusively among them for about a month, during which it carried
off two-thirds of their original number, one hundred men; during
this interval the other inhabitants of the town were exempt from
the disorder, though these troops were not confined to any
particular quarter, many of them having had apartments in the
houses of the inhabitants of the town.

The destruction of the human species in the province of Suse was
considerably greater than elsewhere; Terodant, formerly the
metropolis of a kingdom, but now that of Suse, lost, when the
infection was at its acme, about eight hundred each day; the
170 ruined, but still extensive city of Marocco[129], lost one thousand
each day; the populous cities of Old and New Fas diminished in
population twelve or fifteen hundred each day[130], insomuch, that
in these extensive cities, the mortality was so great, that the
living having not time to bury the dead, the bodies were deposited
or thrown altogether into large holes, which, when nearly full,
were covered over with earth. All regulations in matters of
sepulture before o