The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . eed II. at Tazaon its behalf, with letters from Louis XIV. fIt was not till 1673 that the Spanish really occupiedAlhuccmas, under the Prince of Montesacro. In 1771it was ordered tliat only such offenders as might de-velop into honourable citizens and soldiers should bedeported to Alhucemas, for it is a convict station. Alhucemas consists of a Httle island only forty-eightfeet high, about a mile from the shore, in a , (. -I , , • Siliialioii. bay some nvc miles deep and nme across,from north to south. There are also three small islandsn
The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . eed II. at Tazaon its behalf, with letters from Louis XIV. fIt was not till 1673 that the Spanish really occupiedAlhuccmas, under the Prince of Montesacro. In 1771it was ordered tliat only such offenders as might de-velop into honourable citizens and soldiers should bedeported to Alhucemas, for it is a convict station. Alhucemas consists of a Httle island only forty-eightfeet high, about a mile from the shore, in a , (. -I , , • Siliialioii. bay some nvc miles deep and nme across,from north to south. There are also three small islandsnear the shore, and three more distant. A fair anchor-age exists across the bay, and goods are landed at the * Possilily this should he read El llo/iiia, wliicli would accounl fLirtlie Spanish name, but neither is now l<no\vn. t See his Rcl. dtin Voya<jt\ Taris, 1670, and Ihc Mooiisli Eiii/in\l)p. 402 and 473. ToKKES, p. 420. * Ratd cl Karliis, p. 61; Ins Khaluun, vol. ii, p. 275. Kaoii cl Knrliis, p. 330 * Leo, ed. Ramusio. p. 93. •*»V r. f*^^ 1 M \ ) MELILLA 369 side of the rock by cranes. Water is as usual scarce,and there being no intercourse with the mainland, lifehere is not to be envied. From Velez it is twenty-sevenmiles, from Melilla fifty-three, and from Malaga ninety-three;its precise position is 34 35 15 N., and 3 46 30 W. S-MELILIYA (MELILLA) (3n the east side of the bare forbidding headland ofRas Hiirak, known through the Spaniards as Cabo TresForcas, one hundred and thirty-five miles from r^ J. 1 r T- ,. Situation. Leuta,* on the coast of hr-Kif, standing outfrom hills behind, is the huge rock on which the townand fortress of Melilla have been built, f It is not aninviting spot, and could hardly have been better chosenfor the use to which, in common with the other fourSpanish presidios, it has been put, that of a convictstation. Beyond a strip of so-called neutral ground,bounded by a line of small forts, the erection of oneof which by the side of
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