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The Shebbel, or Barbary salmon; different characters of exports of the Northern and Southern provinces. The Elæonderron Argan. Various trees and plants. Mines. The Sherb-Errech, or Desert-horse. Division of Morocco into kingdoms or States, and zones or regions. Description of the towns and cities on the Maroquine coasts of the Mediterranean and Atlantic waters. The Zafarine Isles. Melilla.

The Shebbel, or Barbary salmon; different characters of exports of the Northern and Southern provinces. The Elæonderron Argan. Various trees and plants. Mines. The Sherb-Errech, or Desert-horse. The empire of Morocco may be considered under two aspects, as to its extent, and as to its influence.

The sherb-errech will continue running three or four days together without any food. It is a slight and spare-formed animal, mostly in wretched condition, with ugly thick legs, and devoid of beauty as a horse. Division of Morocco into kingdoms or States, and zones or regions. Description of the towns and cities on the Maroquine coasts of the Mediterranean and Atlantic waters. The Zafarine Isles.

Davidson mentions some curious facts relative to the desert horse; "sherb-errech, wind-bibber, or drinker of the wind," a variety of this animal, which is not to be met with in the Saharan regions of Tunis, or Tripoli. This horse is fed only on camel's milk, and is principally used for hunting ostriches, which are run down by it, and then captured.