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500 TRkVELSJN AFRICA.respectfully, or, as they term it, giving tbemill treatment.Thelareohliged to walk bear~footed by the doorof e1very mosq.ue, and also'\>;rthose of the houses of the officers ofstate, unless they should he elevatedto the dignity of a Christian's servant, in which casetheyare exempted.-Their religion prohibiting the use of any food not killed by themselves(the importance annexed to this process of human life extendsamongst other ancientnations as .weIl as this) causes a positive internaIassociationamongst themselves, which is aclb.éred .towith a rigiditYQfwhich rare specimens to like effect can beboastedby.ohvistiansor lMohommedans.The Jew interpreterof the English embassy, by nàrneIsaac, in compliance with bis Jaw, .which adroits of no dispensations,would eat nothing but eggs on his route, from the timehe left Morocnountil he reached Tangier; and,had he notmet with them, would cer~tainlyhave died sooner than have broken his.fast~ ThetteaJmentofthisIlatioJ1 in England, mutatis m«tandis, was Jittle betterthanhere, as mayheseen in "Anglia Judaica," and the" Chronicles." It is not con.sistentwith historical dignity, whicn cver must he tllé histewiat{s first abject(truth owes about aSllluch ta bistoryas scienc.e does tothe classics), as itrs (like the master's honoun in those ofhis servant according to Swift) inhis hands, ta notice such a tritle as a massacre ofeight or ten thousandincorrigible unbelievers, deaf to argument and blind toJact. It is thereforeuseless to look for information in that quarter. But facts are stu b­barn, and must make people weigh weIl, before they may feel authorizedto throw exclusive censure on others. But the motive, to he sure, wasgood: A murdered infant was found in a ditch; and this was Jew-work,in mockery of our Saviour's crucifixion. Engravings ta similar effectare at this moment in circulation in Spain. Such Îs the cordial propensityto 11a11oo man on to persecution! But in the situations nowrecited, this wretched community furnishes a la.mentable proofof·· the