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8 1'RAV.BL~ IN AFRICA.Dot exactly the" noctes cœrueque div~m;"and that a fortnight tlillS'passed will Dot bring back much luxurious reflection to the mind.Ori..ganum, saffron,and anise, are a. very indifferent seasoning to meatone half whereof is in a state of scorching, and the other of crudity ;aDd to be washed down by tèpid water! But although the lamentationsof disappointment upon these beads be allowable in Sancho inhis dear-bought 8tate, murmuring would be inadmissible from thosewho voluntarily undertake a. journey in Africa. At worst,however,these enviable repasts possess, what their contra8ts. are often deficientin, cheerfulness, and a community ofdetermination to make the bestofevery thing; and in this way much more is done than from the'descriptionwould be supposed possihle.Three fly-tents, with mattresses laid on the ground, accommodatesix Europeans. One ~1oorish lad, a namesake of the Prophet, andtherefore entitled Saadi (wbich honorific epithet, however, could notpreserve him, if the higher powers on earth here willed it, from a bastinuding),attends the European party; and his bonhom'l1'bÎe and awk.wardness, eq ualJy conspicuous, are so poized, that the irritation thelatter excites iscompletely neutralized by the former. He is ' a specimenof a certain description of softness ofdisposition and intellect fre':'quently depicted in the countenances of the young 1\tloors, not beliedby experience, and by no means, it is very much to be thought, repug..Hant to the capability of moral improvement.l\fter aH, what a traveller suffers most by here, is ,cold. For an hourand a half before sun-fise, wben the traveller first mounts his horse andproceeds, the air is very chilI; and much \Vorse is it if, as is frequentlythe case, a fog lurks on the surface. In winter at .Fez the ice is an inchthick. The human body is made, too, the more sensible,by the relaxationfrom the heatof the preceding day. The extreme sleepiness super-,