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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26378	West Barbary, or, A short narrative of the revolutions of the kingdoms of Fez and Morocco with an account of the present customs, sacred, civil, and domestick / by Lancelot Addison ...	Addison, Lancelot, 1632-1703.	1671 (1671)	Wing A532; ESTC R10903	81,185	250

him out of Don Diego Savedra Taxardo in the 66th of his Empressas Politicas how that a Learned Age might have as little Valour as Devotion That all knowledge was superfluous which taught the People more than to Obey endure Travel and Conquer That great Discursists were apt to intrigue Affairs dispute the Princes Resolutions and stir up the People That it was the best Obedience which was rather Credulous then Inquisitive That the Ottoman Empire so much enrich'd with the Spoils and elevated with the Trophies of many Nations reckon it among their Happinesses not to have their Consultations lime-twigg'd with Quirks and Sophisms of Philosophical Persons and make Illiterature one of their chief Engines of Empire That the City may be taken while the Mathematician is delineaâ—â—â—g the Fortification That Nations Provinces Colonies have grown great by Industrious and not Poring Arts c. While I was thus reading to the attentive discerning Renegado he broke out into a sort of Exultation and call'd Muley Mahumed to witness that he thought Savedra the Author I read was a Moor or otherwise he could never have so punctually described the Humour and Sentiments of the Moors concerning Learning adding withal that if they who in their present Illiterature were so prone to Sedition that they would be much more so if they were heated with Bookish Speculations and had their Black humour chaf'd and quicken'd with Subtilizing Studies The next thing which may seem herein omitted is that which would have best pleased the Virtuosi an account of their Libraries for which I was once sollicited by a Letter from a Stranger in the Year 1664. who design'd an Vniversal Catalogue of Ancient and Modern Writers and their Books And though he possess'd me with great hopes of finding great store of Books in Barbary for his purpose yet upon Enquiry I met with nothing but Disappointment and that the Moors are so far from having excellent Libraries that they wonder to see any Book of Age or Volume in their own Language This I understood from Cidi Hamet Cogez formerly Alcayd of AlcazÃ r who when in Tanger coming to see the Publick Library that we had Founded there where I shewed him a MS. in his own Character concerning their Religion he kiss'd hugg'd laid it to his Brow upon the Crown of his Head lifted it up to Heaven and in every Circumstance appear'd therewith so much transported that I could scarce rescue it out of his Embraces The same MS. I shewed to a Talib who was one of Tafilets EmhÃ©rkin or Messengers of State sent to Compliment His Excellency the Lord Ambassador The Illustrious Lord H. Howard at Tanger who esteem'd it so great a Rarity that he sollicited the Ambassador to beg or buy it for him at any Rate This Manuscript is now in the Possession of the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury His Grace It is the first part of the Mustadarif or as the Talib Expounded it The Clean Book It was compos'd by AlfachÃ¬ Mahumed Ebn Ahmed Alchab and Copyed into that fair Letter wherein it is now extant by Ali Ebn Abd'alirÃ¡hman ebn Mahumed a Native of Suz who finished it in the second Moneth Giamadi Anno Hegirae 1005. But these Stories have betray'd me to an unintended length for which I hope to make some amends in what follows in which I have endeavour'd like a merciful Executioner not to protract your Pain A BRIEF NARRATION Of the late Revolutions in the KINGDOMES of Fez and Morocco THIS Narrative of the Revolutions of Barbary shall not be derived beyond the Annals of our own Memory For whose clearer introduction the contexture of affaires invites us to step back to the notorious change which hapned about the year 1508. Near which time the Marine Familie approaching to it s design'd period and determination it fortun'd that a certain Alfachi or Morish Priest in the Province of Dara began to grow into great reputation with the people by reason of his high pretentions to piety and fervent zeal for their Law illustrated by a stubborn rigidity of conversation and outward sanctity of life His first name was Mahumet Ben Amet but pretending to be descended from their Prophet he caused himself to be called Zeriffe A Title which the Kindred of that Impostor have appropriated to themselves and made the character of that whole Family The credit of his pretended Pedegree was another Engine wherewith he insinuated himself into the peoples likeing which together with his seeming severity made him of no vulgar esteem with a generation who from time to time have been fooled with such Mountebanks in Religion The great applause and approbation his person met with from the Moores kindled in him no less an Ambition then of making himself Lord of Mauritania Tingitana which must needs have proved a very Hypocondriacal designe had it not been assisted with a favourable conjuncture of affaires For the Mauritanian Princes had a long time weakned themselves with civil discords and the Portugals taking that advantageous occasion had farr advanced their Armes and arrived at a considerable puissance in Barbary and were still under a daylie success of new atchievements Besides the Moors desirous of Novelties and sensible of oppressions both from their own and forreign powers were sufficiently inclinable to adhere to any who appeared with probability to deliver them from their present Yoke This now Zeriffe who wanted neither Witt nor Ambition to conduct or enterprise an innovation found by the Starrs in whose Science his Legend makes him very skilful that the time was not yet suitable for so great an undertaking Religion was his pretence and nothing could have been so fit beside to advance him in the estimation of the many To facilitate his designs he sent his three Sons Abdel Abnet and Mahumet in Pilgrimage to Mecha and Medina to visit and worship the Sepulchre of their Great Prophet Much was the reverence and reputation of Holiness which they thereby â—â—â—â—uired among the superstitious people who could hardly be kept from kissing their garments and adoreing them as Saints His admired sons failed not in their parts but acted as much Devotion as high contemplative looks deep sighes tragical gestures and other passionate Interjections of Holiness could express AlÃ AlÃ was their doleful note their sustenance the peoples Almes Their Father received them with content and joy and perceiving the favour and opinion of the people toward him to continue the same as at the first he resolved to make use thereof and thereupon sent Abnet and Mahumet to the Court of Fez where they were kindly received by the too credulous King who made the elder President of the famous Colledge Amadorac and the younger Tutor of his own Sons Advanced thus in favour at Court and Grace with the people by the Councel of their Father they desired leave of the King to display a Banner against the Christians induceing him to believe that they would easily draw the Portugal Moors to their party and by that means

the two following days in good Neighborhood and plentiful Collations This is their chiefest Feast because at it their Males are Circumcised and may seem to have a reference to the old Whitsuntide among the Christians But I forbear to swell these Remarks with such Conjectural References which if I should enterprise I might make all Mahumeds Institutions yield some probable Resemblances of those ancient Customs Ordinances in usage among Jews and Christians and shew that this great Deceiver has confused both the Testaments into his Alcoran laboring thereby to have his first Pretensions made creditable That he came to reconcile Jew and Christian unto the obedience of one and the same Law These Moresco Festivals seem not so much Commemorative of received Mercies as relaxatives of Corporeal Labors from which they are observed to have no other Divertisements For Cards and Dice are utterly abhorr'd by the better Families not only as forbidden by the Law under the Infamous terms of Diabolical Inventions but as observed to be occasions of many nocive Passions engendring Debates and Incentives to Avarice Besides they are look'd upon as Effeminate and Trivial Entertainments fit onely for Sea-men and Women the former being much vers'd in this Idleness though no such Aspersion can be cast on the latter CHAP. XVIII Of the Moresco Pastimes Musick Dancing c. WHen the Moresco Gentry are disposed to Sports the Wild Boar fits them with a Manly Exercise and affords them both Pastime and Improvement and when in the failure of some Circumstance they are debarr'd this kind of Recreation they supply it with their Lances in Lusory Skirmishes on Horseback wherein their Dexterity cannot be too much admired But they are naturally uninclin'd to Sports being very Saturnine and loving the Extremes either to sit still or to be in robustious Motions They spend much of their Time in a sort of drowzy Conference but the sum of their Domestick Entertainments are their Women and their Chess-boards All communicating in the former but the latter is only the serious Pastime of the Virtuoso's They use Vocal and Instrumental Musick but in both are very serious and plain devoid of Levity or Flourish Their usual Instruments are the RabÃ¨b and AhlÃ¹d the former resembles our Violin but strung only with one great Cord of Hair the other a Getar In Fez they have Lutes and those who will teach them well The AlÃ¡rbs have an Instrument call'd ZauphÃ¨n like the bottom of a Kettle on which they Tinckle with a stick The Tituanezes have a less Organ and also use a sort of Tabor and Pipe when they march in the Field So most Towns have their peculiar sorts of Musick The singing part is perform'd by Negra's not for any peculiar Excellency they are happy in but because singing at publick Dances is look'd upon as Slavish In their Dances they permit no mixture of Men with the marryed Women which is granted to the Virgins who upon some Solemnities Dance with the Batchelors but so closely Veild that not any part about them is seen naked They act the Tune with their Hands and Head and abhor as loose and lascivious Jigs or high Dancing Every Town and CavÃla have their own Dances which are known by several Names The Fessians have a Dance called Estitati which is used in Sally MekenÃ¨z AlcazÃ r c. Those of the City of Morocco have one named SholakebÃ¨r and in the CavÃla's of MinchÃ¨l Bemi-Wadres c. there is a Dance stiled IsmmahÃ¡h It seldom happens that those of one Town know the Dances of another therefore thofe who use this Divertisement only know the Name and Mode of the Dance where they live Their set Times are their Weddings and Yearly Festivals the Marryed dancing on the Day the Single in the Night CHAP. XVIII A Miscellaneous Chapter of the temper of the Air Diseases Medicine Poysons Education of Children Apparel c. BEfore I shut up these Tumultuary Remarks I cannot but adde some Miscellaneous Notes occasionally collected from Discourse and Observation of whose Credit I have not many Arguments to render me dubious The first Notice concerns the Temperature of the Air in this Part of Barbary wherein there is some Variation according to the Site of the Places At Fez the Air in Summer is more temperate then at Morocco The Inhabitants of the latter for several Hours cannot endure the Heat abroad and therefore for that time keep close within But the People of the former are by no such Excess constrain'd to intermit their Labours Albeit as I have observed in other Countrys much herein is to be imputed to Humor and Custom The Inland Country is hotter in Summer and colder in Winter then the Maritine which may easily be conceived by considering what Neighborhood the one hath with the Sea the other with the Mountains which from December to the latter end of February are covered with Snow at the Resolution of which such Rivers are caused that in some places the Channels will yield Water the whole Summer ensuing The Inhabitants live long and are generally Healthy the Diseases when they happen are Fluxes after the Season of Fruits and Calentures when they immoderately Travel in the Sun And what seems herein remarkable the Winter which Season consist of great Rains is most mortal amongst them The Lues Venerea or Foul Disease which the Moors call BubÃ¨s is incident to those who accompany with variety of Women and though this may seem to confine that Distemper to those Moors who live after a more rude and roving manner yet it is no stranger to those of a more refin'd and setled Life the Grandees of late having herein exceeded the Paisants As to the Plague they observe no set time of its return the tenth and fifteenth Year of its coming being worn out of Remarks and in this last Century it has hapned very seldom but in no parts it doth rage more furi usly then in Barbary and when they are visited the Inhabitants take little or no care to avoid it holding it to be inevitable In cure of Sicknesses they use very plain Medicines and whatever be the Disease Cauterizing is first practised which they do with no more Art or Curiosity then with a Knife red hot to gash and cut the place where the Pain lies To cure the Head-ach they take the Root Tauz Argent and Rosemary burning them in an Earthen Pot over which the Diseased holds his Head for the Fume then binding the same in a Cloth about the Head present ease is given This Tauz Argent is a Root much Celebrated for an excellent and lasting Perfume there is great store thereof about Sally which is white within without duskish and streaked The Moors use it in Airing and Perfuming their Rooms but the scent is much less durable then has been reported The People when sick cure themselves with Herbs in whose Virtues the common People have a traditional knowledge By this they supply the want of Apothecaries and

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