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HEPORTMENT, GRÂVITY~STATURE OF THE MOORS. 301prayers before the eyes of the people, or counting over a string of beads,vhile the thoughts are revolving on things below, cannot be supposeà~by aught believed of it, to com~ey to the minds of the community anyvery correct idea of the application of this tie and check in the intercourseof life..As to foreigners too, and the business which bringsthem here, the prospect iB likely to be but Iittle amended. In censuringthe Moors, we should look about to see if wecontribute, by our intercourse,to improve them. UnquestionabIy, England i5 more respectedtban any other Christian nation here.But matters considered by us as. trifles, make very serious impression on the minds of this people. Exteri9rgravity, manner, the extent of the mind, a thing very independentof the antecedents, but which tbey, though not bookish, have awqnderful knack at reading, are aIl seriously adverted to by them.Tbey are, still, veryapt tojudge ofwhat they do not see, by that whichthey do, like other meh. Europeans are notsufficiently aware of thenecessity of tbis advertence to e.deriors.The free manners of their owncountries are by no means compatible witb tbe ideas of a people whichconsiders decorum a Ieading virtue.Our diminutive stature, comparedto their portIy forms, so humiliating to us, and our faces divested of themasculine appendage of a beard, to wbich tbey annex 80 much respectas to deem it hardIy a degree short of sacred, disparage us furthttriatheir eyes, " Nosotros somos hombres a muchac/ws"-" Wc are men~ youbutchildren," was a phrase which, often as it was dilllled in the cars,in case of altercation,-a procedure one would think "no person wouldvoluntariIy get into here, where neither politics nor the bottle come iQsupport of the life of cOllversation,-did not improve by repetitioB.The young Moor i8 occasionally inclint!d to the vice of youth everywhere,arrogance, (if it abandons age, it is only from conviction of itsfutility,) and nothing is gained by endeavouring to set him right, inteaching him his true rank in society. A.thankless good office, indeed, in2R2