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CONTENTS
A Moorish Entertainment―Professional Musicians―A New School for Scandal―The Santa―Curiosity Excited by my Appearance―Sensation Produced by the Toy Devil―I Become Acquainted with Several Moorish Families―The Sultana of England―Strange Examination―Ignorance of Everything Pertaining to England. . . . . . . . 49
The Streets of Tangier―Show and Glitter Within Contrasted with the Plainness and Squalor Without―The Generation of Pestilence―How the Young Idea is Taught to Shoot―Early Manifestations of Intolerance―Entomological Investigations―A Moorish Market Place―A Picturesque Scene―The Evening Gun―Strange Bedfellows―The Closing of the Gates―How the Jew Puts Money in his Purse―Fatima Selling Butter, and Leila Eggs―Some People Sharp Enough with One Eye―The Cemetery of Tangier―Small Talk and Serious Talk with the Departed―The Funeral of a Moor. . 59
The Three Sabbaths―Forms of Piety Dependent on Latitude―Unseasonable Devotion―The Mueddin at Dinner-time―The Jews are Prophets out of their own Country―A Successful Rival to the Gipsies―English Consuls in Morocco―How I Located in Tangier―My Moorish Home―Ottomans and Packing Cases―The Castle of Tangier―A Horticultural Sinecurist―The Minarets―Story of a Clock. . . 73
Differences between France and Morocco―Marshal Bugeaud and Mulai Mohammed―The Battle of Isly―Defeat the Moors―The Sultan's Umbrella―Threatened Bombardment of Tangier―The Sultan's would do it Himself for a Consideration―The Moorish Authorities Refuse to let the Christians go―Riffian Disturbances and the Town Plundered―My House Converted into a Store-house―Zebry's Honesty and Jewish Gratitude―I Place Myself under the Protection of the British Flag―The Bombardment―How Moorish Artillerymen serve their Guns―Gallic Parade of Valour―Arrival of Mr. Drummond Hay―Failure of his Mission to Obtain a Peaceful Settlement―More Fright that Bloodshed―The Moors Defend Mogador with Spirit―Mercantile Vice-Consuls―Change in the Consular System. . . . . . . 85
