MOROCCO, SPAIN, AND THE CANARY ISLANDS.
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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.
When we had proceeded some distance, the sounds of the Tomtom coming upon our ears indicated that the scene of rejoicing was close at hand. My companion stopped at a house with a mean little door, through which, having entered, she led the way in to a large open Patio, shaded on one side by a trellis of cane-work, supporting heavy bunches of luscious grapes. In the midst of the court grew, in full vigour, a verdant fig-tree, spreading abroad its expansive branches, and affording an agreeable shelter from the oppressive rays of the noonday sun.
VOL. I.
