gained among the Negroes[f] has not the blessing of God on
it, but vanishes away without benefit to the owner; but, acquired in a
journey to Mecca, proves fortunate, and becomes a permanent acquisition.

On his return with his father from Mecca, they settled at Tetuan, and
often carried cattle, poultry, &c. to Gibraltar; his father passed the
last fifteen years of his life at Gibraltar, and died there about the
year 1793. He was born at Mequinas; his family is descended from the
tribe of Shabban[g], which possesses the country between Santa Cruz and
Wedinoon. They were entitled to the office of pitching the Emperor's
tent, and attending his person. They can raise 40,000 men, and they were
the first who accompanied Muley Hamed Dehebby[h] in his march to
Timbuctoo.

[Footnote a: Confirmed by Sir John Peters.]

[Footnote b: In the year 1795.]

[Footnote c: The haiks are light cotton, woollen, or silk garments,
about five feet wide and four yards long, manufactured at Fas, as
are also the red caps which are generally made of the finest Tedla
wool, which is equal to the Spanish, and is the produce of the
province of that name, (for the situation of which see the map of
the empire of Marocco, facing page 55.) The slippers are also
manufactured from leather made from goat-skins, at Fas and at
Mequinas. The cochineal is imported from Spain, although the
opuntia, or the tree that nourishes the cochineal-fly, abounds in
many of the provinces of West Barbary, particularly in the province
of Suse. The saffron abounds in the Atlas mountains in Lower Suse,
and is used in most articles of food by the Muhamedans.]

[Footnote d: Muls.]

[Footnote e: _Gebalia_ resembles frankincense, or Gum Benjamin, and
is used for fumigations by the Africans.]

[Footnote f: Being idolaters.]

[Footnote g: Shaban is (probably) a tribe of the Howara Arabs, who
possess the beautiful plains and fine country situated between the
city of Terodant and the port of Santa Cruz. There is an emigration
of the Mograffra Arabs, who are in possession of the country
between Terodant and the port of Messa. The encampments of an
emigration of the Woled Abusebah (vulgarly called, in the maps,
_Labdessebas_) Arabs of Sahara, occupy a considerable district
between Tomie, on the coast, and Terodant. The coast from Messa to
Wedinoon