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A51053	Travels and voyages into Africa, Asia, and America, the East and West-Indies, Syria, Jerusalem, and the Holy-land performed by Mr. John Mocquet ... : divided into six books, and enriched with sculptures / translated from the French by Nathaniel Pullen, Gent.; Voyages en Afrique, Asie, Indes Orientales & Occidentales. English	Mocquet, Jean, b. 1575.; Pullen, Nathaniel.	1696 (1696)	Wing M2310; ESTC R787	161,053	430

of People you can scarce oass along The most part of the ordinary Houses there are low little and but badly built with Earth and Lime But the Houses of the Alcaydes Lords and other Persons of Quality are great and high built with Stone environed with Walls with a high Tower in the middle to go take the fresh Air and a great many little Windows and Wickets The upper-parts of the Houses are flat and in Cotees The King 's Palace is built with little Stones like in-laid work and a great many Pillars of Marble Fountains and other Ornaments Their Mosques in great number well built with Marble and covered on the top with Lead There are a great many Halls or Vaults where the Merchants are and amongst others those which Sell the Alhec or Clothes like Brokers There is also several Colleges where they teach Law There is no River which passes by the City of Morocco but a great many Water-Ditches and Channels on Land to guide the Waters Water which come in abundance from the Mountains of Atlas partly from the Springs and partly from the melted and make this Water run here and there for their Gardens and Fountains They have also Wells and Cisterns They serve themselves dexterously with this Water to sprinkle their Gardens and Land Without the City about the Fields are a great number of Gardens with all sorts of Fruits and Vineyards with Water and a little Habitation to go recreate themselves They keep their Slaves at work All the Ground is very good and fertile and the Seed presently ripens The Mountains are on every side of the City except on that towards Saffy which is level There are the Mountains of Draz towards Lybia from whence comes the good Dates There are no Trees in the Fields except some Palms All the Trees are in the Gardens which are like unto Orchards As for Justice there is in Morocco Justice but one only Judge which they call Haquin who does ready Justice most commonly upon the place and hath continually his Citeres or Sergeants on Foot armed with Cudgels and Alfanges or Cimmeters and as occasion requires when it appears to be some notorious Offence they Behead also upon the very place for they who are offended cry Quoavac quovac c. to the help of the King in demanding Justice The King besides his ordinary Taxes which he sends to gather about the Country by his Guards and in the Mount Atlas by force of Arms he takes also upon all Merchandizes and Traffick the Tenth part The Women of Morocco are very beautiful and white the others who are of Quality and who stir not much abroad are more Tann'd and Sun-Burnt Every one hath 2 or 3 Wives and as many Concubines as they can keep and give to these Concubines so much by the day 2 or 3 Tomins to live upon each Tomin worth half a Rial The King hath four Wives and Concubines without number whom he keeps in his Seraglio or Palace and when he hath a mind to lie with any of them he causes them all to come before him stark Naked then he chooses her which pleases him best for that time The Moors have but sew Houshold Goods except some Alcatifs or Carpets upon which they Eat and Lie and have some Covers and sleep very low Very few have Couches and Linnen The Jews have such Beds as we use As for Victuals they are good and Victuals cheap and all whether Flesh Fish Fruits and other things to Eat are sold by weight and the Pound As for Flesh 't is Beef Mutton Poultry Venison which comes from the Mountains Some Fish as the excellen● Trouts which come from the Mountains of Atlas and from the River Tensif The Wines there are excellent and wonderful strong of which the Moors do not Drink but only the Grapes When a Moor makes himself drunk at any Jews or Christians who sell the Wine the Judge comes to Stave all the Vessels of Wine which are upon the Ground and besides lays an Avarice or fine upon the Master Vintner I will content my self to have said this little of several other things which I could describe concerning this City and Country of Morocco since they are so well known to every one only I will add to this that about 6 Leagues from Morocco near to Atlas is a City called Angoumet where are still to be seen a great Angoumet many ruinous Buildings of the Roman and Antique Letters * half worn out The City is little and nothing but Ruins The Moors say that there is Interred some Holy Personage of the Antients and for this Reason will not suffer the Christians to enter And besides in the Mountains of Atlas are certain People which they call Brebbes Brebb● who cut their Cheeks in the manner of a Cross and have a Language by themselves besides the Arabick and are very strong in these Mountains They pay Tribute to the King of Morocco who sends Forces to raise it There is some signs that these People should be the relicts of the antient Africans Inhabitants of the Country before the Arabian Saracens entered there and that they retired there for security being also in some manner Christians but since the society and imperiousness of the Arabians have corrupted them As for the rest when I arrived at Morocco the Affairs of the Country were thus That Muley-Boufairs the then King of Morocco one of the Sons of Maley-Hamet had War with his War betwixt the Che●ifs of Morocco Brother Muley-Chec and Muley-Abdalla his Nephew and with Muley Zidan his other Brother For all these three Brothers made cruel War upon one another for the Kingdom of Morocco Now this Muley-Boufairs trusting wholly upon his Bassa-Joda lost all For Muley-Abdalla the Son of Muley-Chec King of Fez won a Battle of his Uncle Boufairs who sled in the night time to the Mountains of Atlas in the House of the Alcayde of Asur which is an exceeding strong Alcayde of Asur Castle But the Brebbes Robbed him and did him a great deal of mischief before he could get conveniently there After that he sent some of the Alcaydes his great Favourites to go fetch his Wives and his Daughter who brought along with them all his Treasure but they were Robb'd before day near to Angoumet in a place where they had sat down to take a little rest from the fatigue of the way The Brebbes had his Wives and Daughters at their pleasure and carried his Daughter to Muley-Abdalla because he desired her to Wife though she was his Cousin The Alcaydes or Conductors of these Women seeing themselves thus Rob'd and without any means to recover their loss did enter themselves into an Asoy or Mosque to the Alforme or Sanctuary of a Saint Marabou But Muley-Abdalla hearing of it sent to fetch them out with the Marabou also who earnestly desired Abdalla to give them their Lives which he promised to do But before they arrived

Author quits his Turk more since I gave him a Letter to the Jew Abraham Rabbi to shew him that he had put me safe and found in Jerusalem as he had promised The Saturday following in the Evening some Pilgrims that were there and I went to the Holy Sepulchre to do our Devotions the Governour of the City having sent the Keys upon Request that was made to him being there were lately Pilgrims arrived and in entring the Church they cried to me Hada which is to say that I came the last for the others had been there already to do their Devotions some Days before and were minded to return there again upon this occasion Being there we went all in Procession and the Father Bucher a Cordelier made a Sermon shewing us every Place where our Saviour had suffered any Pain as the Place where is the Pillar to which he was tyed and scourged Then we went to the Holy Grave where he lay and was buried this is like a little Cupolo having within a great Number of lighted Lamps and an Altar where they say Mass which is upon the Sepulchre it self From thence we went to Mount Calvary and saw the Hole where the Cross was fasten'd which is garnished on the inside with Silver the Rock hard by is slit to the bottom there are some Signs of a Chapel below After having heard there a short Sermon we went to the Place where our Saviour was set having the Crown of Thorns upon his Head then where he was put Prisoner to wait for his Death and Passion where he was anointed which is a Stone of Marble as big as a ●omb compassed with Bars of Iron and in short all the Holy Places of Devotion which are within the Enclosure of the Holy Sepulchre After that at Break-of-Day I heard Mass in this Place of the Holy Sepulchre Confessing my self and Communicating as devoutly as I could in a Place so Holy and Venerable and that with so much Contentment and Satisfaction that I don't believe I ever received the like rendering infinite Thanks to my God for having preserved me from so many Perils and Dangers and for having brought me into this Holy Place here to do the Duties of a good Christian and Catholick Having thus finished my Devotions I returned back to the Monastery and after Dinner taking one of the Religious with one named Grand Fils a Parisian who was also there We went to the Street which is ca●led Dolorous Holy Place through which our Lord passed bearing his Cross we there saw the Place from whence Veronica threw the Linnen from her Door upon our Lord's Face then where Pilate said Ecce Homo and the Places where St. Paul was put into Prison where St. Stephen was Stoned where the Virgin Mary was Buried the Sepulchres of Joseph and St. Anne the Place or Mount of Olives where our Saviour ascended into Heaven leaving the Prints of his Feet in the Rock but at present there is nothing left but the print of his Left Foot the Turks having transported the Right into Solomon's Temple as I was there told Then the Place where our Lord wept over Jerusalem the Place where Judas hang'd himself where Lazarus was raised from the Dead where the Three Maries went to seek our Lord to desire him to come to see their Brother and the Stone is still to be seen which our Lord sate upon Then the Castle of Eniaus where he made the Feast where he healed the Blind where St. Peter wept for his Fault Then the Sepulchre of Absolon which is cut in the Rock like a Tower having upon it a Head of a wonderful bigness and there is a Window on the side towards the Valley of Jehosaphat through which they say the Children still cast Stones as they pass by out of disdain that Absolon had made War upon his Father Then the Place where our Lord fell into the Torrent of Cedron the Marks of his Arms and Hands still remaining upon the Rock Then where he was Interrogated u●der the Golden Gate where he was put in Prison in the House of Ann upon Mount Sion the Olive-Tree to which he was tyed which is still green and raised from the Ground round about the Greeks hold this Place Then the Stone of the Sepulchre the Place where St. James was Beheaded where Abraham would have sacrificed his Son Isaac which the Aethiopians keep and which is near to the Sepulchre In short all the other Holy Places which are in Jerusalem and thereabouts as they were shewed us by these Religious who conducted us Now for the City of Jerusalem as Jerusalem Described it is at this Day mightily diminished from what it formerly was it may be about as big as Blois and is situated upon a Heighth amongst Mountains not having any thing of plane but toward the side Jafa 'T is encompassed about with good Walls built not so much in compass as was the ancient City which was very great as the Circuit and Ruines do still shew They have left Mount Sion out to take in that of Calvary All the City is full of Ruines and ancient Vaults and inhabited by People of all Nations and Religions as Jews Greeks Latins Moors Turks The Governour of the City is called the Soubachin who depends upon the Bassa of Damascus The Temple of Solomon is built very great and high covered with Lead and gilded and all round about is built Places like Chapels It is built with Freestone This Place serves them for a Mosque where the Turks will not suffer either the Christians or Jews to enter The Country round about as all the rest of the Holy Land is incultivated and desart full of old Buildings and Ruines and is very stony In short it throughly feels all over and in every Place the grievous Curse of Almighty God for the Iniquities of the People whom he so loved for whose sake he render'd this Country the most Agreeable and Fruitful in the whole World This may serve for an Example to us Christians at this Day who do so badly observe his Holy Law to which by his Grace he has called us in the room of those whom he has cast off for their Disobedience and Ingratitude When I had satisfied my curious Devotion in all this I came back to the Monastery and the next Day I prepared for my Return taking a Mule of the Atelas and a Guide and Trucherman of the Christians who was a Greek to whom I gave Seven Sequins I then left Jerusalem on a Monday Parting from Jerusalem and passed through the Valley of Terebinte where David overcame Goliah In this Place we found a great Number of Cafars but the Atelas spake for me to them and so freed me from that Penalty From thence we passed by the House of Jeremiah from which runs a pleasant Fountain which Passengers drink of Then we came to Ramah Ramah a little City where we lodged at the French Consul's House and