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The town, enclosed within a square wall, and containing very few inhabitants, is supposed to have been built in the middle of the seventeenth century by the Sultan Waleed. after whom it was named. This brings us to Mogador, which, with Aghadir, have already been described. Description of the Imperial Cities or Capitals of the Empire. El-Kesar. Mequinez. Fez. Morocco.
Unlike Judah in quest of his father, he now became weary, and discontinued the pursuit. The younger Jew from Mequinez was exceedingly gay and lively as soon as he perceived that I was capable of understanding him, and made me smile by his humorous account of Christian life, as he had observed it at Gibraltar, where he had made a stay of about a month.
He then looked me in the face and smiled, and taking out a book from his pocket, in Hebrew characters, fell to reading it; whereupon a Spanish sailor on board observed that with such a beard and book he must needs be a sabio, or sage. His companion was from Mequinez, and spoke only Arabic.
But one word out of his mouth, only one little word, one other name, and what then of this lip-service, and what of this mock-honour! Two days later Israel and his company reached before dawn the snake-like ramparts of Mequinez the city of walls.
The Jew, a dreadful scoffer, pointed heavenwards with one finger. "A thing of God!" he said. "A miracle has been vouchsafed me." But the man of Mequinez answered nothing. He gazed at him once more, and then, slowly bending down his head, folded his hands across his breast in prayer, and walked away.... Then there is the Polish Count, Count Ponomareff, who arrived four days ago.
The character of this work, for the information it contains in antiquities and natural history, is too well known and firmly established to require any particular notice or commendation. Algiers, Tunis, Syria, Egypt, and Arabia Petrea, were the scene of these travels and researches. A Journey to Mequinez, by J. Windhus. 1723. 8vo.
"Ali, my lad," said Israel, "if anything should befall Naomi while I am away, will you watch over her and guard her with all your strength?" "With all my life," said Ali stoutly. He was Naomi's playfellow no longer, but her devoted slave. Then Israel set off on his journey. MOHAMMED of Mequinez, the man whom Israel went out to seek, had been a Kadi and the son of a Kadi.
Then Mohammed of Mequinez stretched out his hand and answered, "Yourself." At that word there-was silence for a moment, while Ben Aboo shifted in his seat, and Katrina quivered beside him. Ben Aboo glanced up at Mohammed. He was Kaid, he was Basha, he was master of all men within a circuit of thirty miles, but he was afraid of this man whom the people called a prophet.
Go from Gibraltar to Mequinez merely, the manners are no longer the same; no longer does one find the same ideas; two leagues of sea have changed everything. I have cast my eyes on an edition of Shakespeare issued by Master Samuel Johnson.
Their chief residence is in the city of Mequinez, about the emperor's person. They are also found, but in smaller numbers, in the different towns of the empire. The Andalusie, who form the fourth class of Moors, are the reputed descendants of the Arab conquerors of Spain, the remnant of whom, on being expelled from that kingdom, appear to have retained the name of its nearest province.
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