New-York tribune., 1841-08-10
From The New-l OK
Cciters from the mediterranean
BY AN AMERICAN LADY.
No SIl........

BY AN AMERICAN LADY.
No XII............ .MoRocco, ISL.
HAVE hitherto said less of the country than Of its inab
,ants for truth the and habits of the Moos
the leading points of attraction; but forget
to say something of their location IA Wolverine would
express it. Before much about it, however, you
have idea of the method and morale of travelling among
the children Of Ismae In all the States OF Barbary, and
with slight variation throughout the East, the
may styled the Mahomean system, and expressly
conrved keep every thing and every body at standst
ngcnousy encountered by useless impedments that
have other object than make the traveller pay literally
Tor the privilege overcoming them. If your lies within
the limits of single province and the authority of Ba
slia the affair comparatively simple. You state the pun
pose Journey his Excelencv and the day YOU wish
leave ot forgetting send him suitable present if you
would have your suit prosPs and request guard After
days delay whether youi impotence will urge
you make second request and enforce with another
present. the permission gacousy given and the soldier,
required attend you Anatve will have of these
soldiers for forty day. and he will take of himself
out o It, but Christian must pay about two dollars taxed
with his maintenance and expected beside make pre-
when journey nished-for buckshSh (presen
begins and ends every transaction with Moor If the
templaed through safe district that is where
than half of the robbers by profession
soldiers will be sufficient escort but generally for
trip of hundred hundred and fifty miles, eight
necessary for the security of fore gner In
districts nearly every village half OF the effective
turn guard the traveller the chief who takes
him up nike md passes him like bucket along
line of temen, and continue the simie it will be singu
lar il he exhausted when he reaches the end In many
of these soldiers might perhaps be dis
pescd WITH but few would choose risk the The
first evidisposed party Of Meors or~worse sll-Arab
that he CHANGED meet if they strong enough would
rob and perhaps murder him unchecked by the slightest fear
of punishment The government would look upon kim
who had voluntarily placer himself without the pale of
protection If application made the Basha the
subject he would reply they have done before similar
instances, Bring the murderer and those who hare the
murder committed before and ne shall be punished.
But no effort would be made to search them out The
entirely changed if you have single soldier assigned
YOU guard not that he expected defend his charge
by force of arms for they not towards tho
fighting, except for punder of any people in the world
but he with his head for the safety of the
under his protection he his vgant precauon
specng suspicious persons and places They have the right
OF demanding for those they attend needu pro-
von horses or en, any village town in their
and frequently this discretionary power much the
noyance such travellers dislike the idea of putting
DouTr they through into confusion for drink of milk
handful of figs these soldiers sometimes insist doing
The great advantage of their presence is that implies
wholesome conviction the Sultans protection Should
person thus secured the safeguard OF the
bc cut OIL Emperor honor would be compromised and
perhaps Especially if he rich) Bashas head endan-
gcred The village where the crime perpe-
ated would be made account for it, If the actual crlmi-
nal could be found heavy fine in and probably
half dozen heads would be levied upon his supposed kin
red tribe. This Justice by Is much al variance
with ideas of right but the order OF the day here
When the Sulans dignity outraged the insult must be
laved in blood and il the real offender cannot be had the
blow made fall where it is presumed it will react upon
him either by sympathy retaliation This mode of uphold
ing good order and public security strongly exempes the
difference between those governments where power dvcgs
single lines from supreme will, and those where i'm
partial laws like genial atmosphere, surround and press
equally upon all. To realize the whole of that differ
TIE dead oppressive air OF deSpetism be breaed
though for that monh-a week will be sufficient GU
and feel where There neither public spirit
private enterprise in the countryscarcey who has
an idea what ssch things You not TO Halter your
self when you get your soldiers and your mules and your
baggage packed thcmana baggage implies only your
wardrobe but Your and bed and cooking utensils and
something too cook into the bargaithat the difficulties OF
Journey o eighty hundred miles overcome After
all YOU have but started As have been apprsed
roads IN Morocco You do look for them but
you have been assured actually do exist and at the FIRST
be crossed the boats inquired for aad YOU ART
told there Is none within days journey The interpreter
happen recoect having crossed one at this very place
few months before and nyokes the aid the Moorish
cor to have forthcoming. The soldiers are paid hv ,b
day and are in hurra Moor is thev are accom-
table for Your life bu, delays beside they have friend
in this collection matched novels who will be glad TO sell Won
barley for horses and eggs and poultry for yourselves
they decline moving the matter The mueteer begins TO
think of unloading his mules and the odsrs indicate con-
venent spot for the tent BY this me desperate per.
feet composure of every else and rtated their
dent determination farther that day. YOU send
the Sheik of the village and threaten back and
plain the Baha Visions OF the basunado struggle with
hopes OF gshe protests he only lives you, but be
cannot command waters and the boat carried
an" broken by the las, rains Rest to-day and please God
orf0~ all my people will sboc pass YOU safely You
refuse To aheht and talk of the Basha
~ 'ePeuion OF the word the Shck rubs his beard
AYERS more vehemently that Your I more ,rc;on. than
te apple o MS eye Finding You resoe he At last oes
OH 10 see whether the boat can be trusted Al :, has M,
'o III ''N you suspect the ferry has not been alto