The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . , and one sultan is described as having aweakness for pork, fattening pigs for his table; but thenhe also bred and ate rats! These latter creatures are so abundant in some districts that they Rats, etc. • 1 1 1 1 r become a veritable plague to the farmers, andmight almost have given rise to Dick Whittingtonsfortune, but that his venture seems to have succeededsomewhere east of Morocco. ^ The jerboa or jumpingmouse, called here the zarbo^a, is also found. Rabbits(koneeah) are found north of the Bu Ragrag chiefly,and hares (arneb) are common i
The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . , and one sultan is described as having aweakness for pork, fattening pigs for his table; but thenhe also bred and ate rats! These latter creatures are so abundant in some districts that they Rats, etc. • 1 1 1 1 r become a veritable plague to the farmers, andmight almost have given rise to Dick Whittingtonsfortune, but that his venture seems to have succeededsomewhere east of Morocco. ^ The jerboa or jumpingmouse, called here the zarbo^a, is also found. Rabbits(koneeah) are found north of the Bu Ragrag chiefly,and hares (arneb) are common in most parts, but ® A specially fine boar, shot in 1898 near Laraiche by Sr. de Cuevas,measured from snout to end of tail 6 ft. 9. in.; height at shoulders, 3 in.; length of lower tusks, 7| in., the skull, after skinning, 16 in. in length.^ p. (>(s. ^ De Foucauld, p. 125. ^ Al-Moghreb Al-Aksa, Ap. i6th. See Murrays Magazine, vol. iii., Mch. and Apl., for his Boar-hunting in Morocco.^ Braithwaite, p. 320. ^ See The Moorish Empire, p. 62 ANIMAL LIFE though the former are lawful food, they are seldomeaten, on account of their resemblance to the forbiddenhares. Some tell us seriously of strange hybrids (afghool)in this country, such as the offspring of bull and ass orbull and mare, to say nothing of more fanciful creaturesdue to distorted descriptions and native imagination. Among the domestic animals it is hard to knowwhether to give the first place to the camel or the horse,since each in its sphere and use is the camel is more typical of its masters,slow-going but plodding; hardy, ill-kempt and grumbling,if not rebellious: even our name for it is borrowed fromthe Arabic, jemel. In the northern and mountainousparts it is by no means common, for the southern districtsbordering the desert are its home, and the mountainroutes prove fatal to such large numbers, that mulesand donkeys are there employed in preference. Thesharp stones cut their feet, and bein
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