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TRAVELS IN AFRICA.Moorish reception is as follows.Theirmilitary (infantry) is formed ina long and close laneof two fronting fanks, thegreatdrums are U\:i(lVC;'ibhand the standards are dispiayed. The \foreignenvoy is received fromthe sheulders of his Israelite supp.tersat ,the water-edge, by, the. governol'of the:place, and by aIl the Christians of it,< at the town-gate,where the populace and soldiery precipitating themselvcs at the samemaIllent, occasion a heat and presUlre not ~o be descl'ibed, but affordingan opportunity of which the pickpockets avariltithêmselves, tosh()wthatthey are not in point of skillandaddressbehind their fellow-professorsof the art.in Europe. 13ut still more sufferance to try the alTI.­bassadol"s st_ism is yet in reserve. For, as he leads the body whichsustains the compliment~t~hadvancrflgthroughthe lane of soldiers,thefile on eâ l éh side, at firing, points the muzzle of his six-feet-lof4g muslœtinto the soif, which being of a graveUy nature" not only the .ambassa..dor'ssilk stockings, but the limbs with,in thern, are no smaUdangeroflaceration. At best, the mentaland bodiIy annoyance elldil':,ed Îs\atJeastE}qual to the hollom: intend.ed; for the ski1Ctwhereon the soldierpiques himself:i consists in discharging. bis piec,e as near as possTbJe tothe ~oeof the person advancing, withoutahsolutely striking it with thewadding and unexplodedpowder; which. thiscountry is quite as se..rio. as sparrow-shot.ft is not here attempted lo he insinuated, that a person thoughtworthyta he deputed upon a public mission would "trembling inhi~it,"flashes in the pan, but a little wincing on ihis occasion is hardly avoidable.Thei~iDutch minister to tbe coJll't of Japan (every court" has its'J'egime) is required to show his skiH in dancing heforethe Cubo's Ia