Volume 1

Travels, or observations relating to several parts of Barbary and the Levant / By Thomas Shaw.

  • Thomas Shaw
Date:
1738
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Credit: Travels, or observations relating to several parts of Barbary and the Levant / By Thomas Shaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TresInsu- Three little Iflands, where there is good Shelter for fmall »*£.**' *’ Veflels, are fituated to the N W of the Mullooia, at the Diftance of ten Miles. Thefe are the Tres Infulce of the Itinerary, wage of sec- six Leagues to the ENE, is the Village of Seedy * ylbdel- moumen or moumen.one of the tutelar Marah-butts'' or Saints of this Coun- y ^ IS ^ Exc.'tbid. try, whofe Tomb they have here in the greateft Veneration. We have below it a fmall but commodious Road, which the Row-Boats of this Country frequently touch at. Maifearda. We fau jn wjtj1 the Rke convenient Station for finall Veflels at Mai-fear-da a little further to the Eaft. This is another of the lefler maritime Villages of Barbary, made up, like the reft, in a carelefs, flovenly Manner with Mud, Stone, Timber, and fuch Materials, as are the moft ealily procured. One of thefe Villages, and perhaps the Firft, may be the Lemnis of the Iti¬ nerary. fhmfiodil The Tingitanians have upon the Banks of the Mullooia, in the Road from Fez to Tlem-fan, a well fortified Caftle and a Garrifon of a Thoufand Men. They have another ftrong Caftle Ei-joube^r and Garrifon at [ uy^\ ] El-Joube, for fo they call the Cifterns the ajierns. ^ Rain-water, that are built about twenty Miles to the Eaft- ward of the Mullooia. In the Wars betwixt the late Muley Ifhmael and the Regency of Algiers, thefe Caftles were of no finall Confequence; as they ftill continue to be very ferviceable in awing the Ang-gaddand other fa£tious Clans; Inhabitants un¬ worthy of fo delicious a Country. Guagidif °r Wooje-da, the Frontier Town of the Weftem-Moors to the Eaft, lyes about the half Way betwixt El-Joube wcATlem-fan. This is the Guagida1 of Leo\ but we are at a Lofs for the an- tient Name, Ttolemy not having taken Notice of any Inland- Cities between the Parallels of his Rivers Malva and Siga. gaddAng’ To the Southward of El-Joube and JVooje-da> is the Defert of the^/zg-g^d, whofe numerous and warlikeOffspring extend their Hoftilities and Encampments to the very Walls of Tlem-fan. To the Northward, we have the mountainous and rugged DiftriCt of ** 0.1 tJO or Sid or Seedy. Dominus,Princeps. vid.Gol. in voce. This is the fame Appellation and Word of Refped amongft the Moors and Arabs, that Sir, Lord, or Majter is with Usj but which They in a higher Degree attribute to their Marab-butteen; for fo they call fuch Perfons, who are, or have been remarkable for any extraordinary Sandity of Life, or Aufterity of Manners. I Guagida antiquiflimum oppidum ab Afris, in Planitie fpatiofif- fima exftrudum, k mari Mediterraneo Meridiem verfus quadraginta, & Telenfino autem totidem fere diftat railliaria,in Occidente atque Meridie Angadi deferto clauditur, agros habet fcecun- diflimos, per hujus urbis medium flumen quoddam praeterfluit &c. J.Leo. DeCcsip. Afric.l.4. p i90. Ant.i%%6. the
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