gardens filled with most kinds of vegetables, and the surrounding country presented beautiful groves of date, fig, pomegrante, and orange trees. The Arabs and Moors not being on the most friendly terms, and the latter being as great enemies to christianity as the former, we might have starved amidst plenty, had we not fortunately a Moor for a companion, without whose aid we could not have gained admittance to any of their villages.

In fifteen days from that on which we left the village of my master, we entered the dominions of the Emperor of Morocco, and in two days after arrived at Santa Cruz, the most considerable frontier town of the Emperor’s dominions. We were met at the entrance of the town by a large body of Moors of all ranks and ages and while some of the most respectable appeared disposed to protect me, from another class I received every insult that they could devise means to bestow upon me. My master, on attempting to defend me from the outrages of these merciless wretches, received but little better treatment himself, as the Moors harbor the most contemptible opinion of the Arabs of the interior. My master however, gained permission of the Governor to tarry in the town until the ensuing morning, and promised us his protection. I was then conveyed to the small dirty hut, situated at the extreme part of the town, and therein barricadoed as securely as if I had been one of their greatest and most formidable enemies in existence. I ought not however fail to