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OOMPLIMENT PAID THE EMBAS8Y. 225being as it were one vast burrow of theseanimals~adduced here by theconveniency of supply of watel'.Proceeding onward, we crossed meadows of superlative beauty, andthen came uuder the sh~de of the vast and open paln~-forest which investsthe cityup to its vel'Y~ battlements. Just within the verge of thewood wc found mOllnted, and Jlalted there to receive us, the governororthe city at the head ofa great body of horsèmen, aB in white c1othing,, designated as we were given to undershmd by the style and title of theSultan's friends, (notthe principes jllventutis certainly,) and a corps ofcavah'Y ofabout four hundred, underfive standards, two l'cd, two green,and one striped green and ted.On our cavalcade joining thern, thestandards were faced about, and forrned in our fronts.After due,and not very sutnrnary complimenting arnong the principal personageson ,each part, we proceeded; and were next met by à large group ofml;lsicians an'd dancers, dressed in red and white, in front of whom,borne on a man's shoulders, (too great an honou1' forthose of a Jew,)was a young Moor, who being, on coming up in front of us, set uponhis heels, by the exercise of them speedily announced\the n~ture of hisoffice, itbeing'noother than that of ma1tl'e de ballet to the court of Mo­{occo. For on his signal and exarnple, the group began a wild, and 1.0our ideas, extravagantly gesticulated dance, t.o the music of their harddrums, while, by way of interlude, the cavalry perforrned theircornplipJental'Yevol,utiQns ()f advancing against us at full speed, in Tanks offrom ten to fifteen in frorit, 'hallooing, and firing 1.heir rnul'ike1.s pointedat our faces, and occasionally even discornposing the regularity of Ollrmarch by the irruption of an unruly horse.. For although it is not inthis soldier's-play intended 1.0 hurt,yet as a11 theelegance of the complimentconsists in approa.c11ing as nearly as possible to actually 80(loing, and yet conveying to the person complimented the agreeable2G