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3~O TRAVELS IN AFRlüA.adroit in the management of this so apparently curnbrous dress on borseback,and it rarelydecomposes, unless they choose it, in their most violentexerCIses.When the embassy was leaving the city of Morocco, a young Moor ofa very particùlar and interesting appearance came tosee it depart. , Hedid not obtrude towards the strangers~seeming to sympathize with themunder the mimite thougb various annoyances of their situation. Neitherdid he.mix with t~le crowd of populace.; indeed he hadmuch the appearanceof being a himself, at least to tne aggregation about ,him. Hewas very taIl, about twenty years of age, heardless, with Roman features,and acomple~ion of the deepest black. He was mounted on a veryhandsome borse, with rich caparison, and was .clothed from head to footin muslin of the finést white. ltcould not be discovered who he was(he was yet unmarried, for he did not wear the red cap); but he indicatedin his aspect and behaviour a mind.of a very superior cast to thoseabout him.ln winter, the Moors of "pper station, in short a11 who can afford it,wear, over a loose linen shirt and drawers, a cloth waistcoab of the hussareut, and lo()se wooUen trowsers,: over these a' white silham, or hoodedcloak of a light woollen manufactute, and over that again a more substantialone of broad~cloth. These cloths are usually red or bIue. Ontheir heads they wear a rt:ldpointed cap from the re~a of matrimony,which, wound round with white linen or muslin, constitutes the turban.But in summer, instead of the thick woollen clothing and silham, theywear a baik of fine linen or· muslin, and a lighter silham when occasionreqmres. Linen js of course c.onsiderably used, whell obtainable, in theharem.The different races, which eonstitute the population of thiscountry,lI1aintain their moral habits distinct. A Negro wed~dil1g attractsits share