_Rice Sausage._--The rice is parboiled. It is then mixed with the soft fat from the muscle, the same seasoning but not so strong, and the binding of white of egg. In large families the dish contains sometimes thirty or forty pounds of beef, four dozen eggs, and eight sausages made of the largest entrails of the bullock. Potatoes are of modern introduction, but the sweet potato is an ancient produce of the country. The English potato is called _Roman_, as coming from Europe. FOOTNOTES: [213] At Tangier the body of elders is called Mahamad; the members composing it, Yehedeems, President, Parnaas, Reader, Haezan, Treasurer, Gisbar, Sacristan, Saamus, Deean (Judge). [214] “Muley Arshid proceeded to a district called ‘The Mountain of the Jew,’ because a Jew governed there, and because the Brebers, whom he subjected to the law, respected him as their sovereign. After spreading terror through the country, he massacred the Jew as unworthy of commanding Mahometans, seized on his wealth, and rewarded his troops.”--CHENIER, vol. ii p. 122. [215] In the towns of Morocco a primitive mode of _trapping_ is in use, to prevent the entrance of the effluvia from drains and cess-pools. The orifice is small, and a stone is fitted to it, and slipped off and on. It is the closest application in a city of the injunction of Deuteronomy xxiii. 12, 13, which the Moors rigidly follow, when they are in the country. [216] Country of the _Erse_, that is, the Celts. _Erse_, however, like _Scot_, is peculiar to the clans. I shall revert to this term in tracing their wanderings. [217] Rating by the taxes they pay, the town population is only 74,000. DUCATS. Rabat, population 4000 1000 Salee 500 Tangier 1000 Tetuan 3000 Fez 5000 Mequinez 3000 Mogadore 3000 Morocco 500 Arzila 500 Larache 1000 ------ 18,500 ====== Numerous agricultural tribes of them are settled in the Atlas. [218] It amounts to about half a dollar. At Tangier they were formerly assessed 2000 ducats; the half was remitted when the dragomans of the different consuls, who were the wealthiest men of the tribe, were exempted from taxation. [219] The passages are, Exodus xiii. 1, 10, 11, 16; Deut. vi. 4-9; and Deut. xi. 13-21. [220] Eccles. iv. 17. [221] See calculation in Lindo’s “Jews of the Peninsula.” [222] An Englishman at Gibraltar has recently become a Jew, and they seem to have invented some strange process of admission, and subjected him to a total abstinence from food during seven days. He gave up a petty office he held in the police, which required him to work on Saturday.