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fire-~1'1ll when he dJ!~nv~ his sabre. The foregoing, and the crooked dagger"arelli~ only instruments of death (our pistols they despise, probablyfrom their compara,tive .d~1llinutiveness),if we except his spurs fromth~t descript~on, to which they ~n correctness belong most unquestion..,abIy, being six-inch daggers withguards to them like rapiers.15They.are left with thestirrups, in th.e proportions of which they certainly assimilatebetter than with any thing else ; and the man .canput his footinto spur-tackling and stirrup at the saille time. Any one, to see theformer unoccupjed, would take it for sOllle clulllsy weapon ofoffence.Itinerary. MQROCCQ to TANGIER.-Second Day.Mounted andmarchedoff by sun-rise. The route before us for tWQ;leagues in Jellgth wascovered by soldiers' baggage, and rnilitary stragglersgoing to Morocco from>~m .enca1llpment of the Sultan's troops,somewhere in the neighbourhood of F~z DOW breaking up. Amongstthegeneral crowd was an alcaid ofrank, escortcd by a hundred footsoldiers,with whom were borlle by mounted men nine standards ofdif.ferentcolours, having gilt balls of the size of ostrich's eggs on the topsof the poles.The rear was closed. by il bod~ of two hundred cavalry,in front of whom rode a great over-proportion of officers, and with·which w~re twelve standards, one whereof (for sorne reason no doubt)was uot displayed.. Tbese persops wcre aIl very handsomely apparelledand appointed in theirway, aU being in wçite. They marched thirty infront. The firstrank preserved ils dressing, but the remainder did notseem to attend.toany order. These troops were in march to constitutepart of an arlJlY .of ten thonsand men forming for the purpose oflevyingcontributions in Tafilet; so that they will bave to traverseM.ount Atlas;andwould probably have afforded a favourable opportunity to Europeans,.who could h~veThey were nearly aIlNegroes.availed themselves of it, to visit that country.