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'l'RAVELS IN AFRICA.der the load of a handbarrow, whereon was ,placed an enarmous chinabowl fiIJcd with the pride of the national cuisine, cuscusu.Thisoeingdeposited, was followed hy an entire shcep, skinned indeed, and bearfngevidenceof having undergone the processof the kitchen, but appafentlyyet possessing its intestines as in days of yore. The équivoquewas, however, speedily solved; for, incision being made, a bounteousdischarge of contents cxtruded, ready dressed, in various fanciful for111sofpuddings, forced meats, minc;ed meats, and indescribal&leet-ceterns,wherein it seemed as if this Arabesque taste had beeb trainedto adheretaihe modes of Nature...And the: process altogether brought to ourminds the theatrical contrivances ofTrimalchio's fcast, to break the te..clium of that greatest'bf ail trials of Imman endnrance, a grand couvert.One word more here in bidding farewell to the subject of the Moorishcuisine, a national subject every whère worthy of a strangef's notice.Fdr it is one whcrein, it is to be aomitted, he must bear a daily interest.It must have appeared already, as fiow, thatstoicism doesnot ,fuldhèl'eupon this subject as in Spain. In fact, tbis proves itself alandof plentyin the fullest sense; ând the eifects of this are obvious in the weil ·shotupt anô full fotins of the people, who never appear to have undergone,in any step of their mortaljoumey, a pinching process.Yet, if itbetrue, as it unquestionabfyis, as often said in the best ùrganizedsoCieties,that one halfof mankind is ignoranfhow the oth~l' haJf lives, doubleobscurity attends :he subject here.l'he population ofthis city, inits myriads, denr of rags and famine, is a problemin statistics hithertoinsolubJe.-But.to return tothe kitchen, and to an artidé which lakesa Jead in it, and by its eifects certainly cannot be offensive to the humanframe,howevet much so it may he to the senses.This composition,thongh not presented to usat a regularmeaJ, which we Wéref)'eqUèntJytempted with on the foUte, on, the occasion when that e'llitremet of the