The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . outside. The drainage is extremely primitive and faulty,but the pubhc heahh is fair. The gates are four in number, that of the sea, thatof the sok or market (held on Mondays); the New Gate,and that of Marrakesh, which leads to a lane , of huts, disgustmgly filthy mside and out. 1 hewalls are in fair condition, but of no great strength, andlittle can be said in favour of their two or three of the streets are comparatively wide, and thosemost patronized by Europeans are exceptionally wellpaved. There is a mellah in which are man
The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . outside. The drainage is extremely primitive and faulty,but the pubhc heahh is fair. The gates are four in number, that of the sea, thatof the sok or market (held on Mondays); the New Gate,and that of Marrakesh, which leads to a lane , of huts, disgustmgly filthy mside and out. 1 hewalls are in fair condition, but of no great strength, andlittle can be said in favour of their two or three of the streets are comparatively wide, and thosemost patronized by Europeans are exceptionally wellpaved. There is a mellah in which are many great mosque has been outshone by the new mosqueof Mulai el flasan III., built of stone, but very plainlyfinished, and the patron saint is Sidi Belyout. The watersupply is poor, most of the local wells and streamsbeing brackish. The distance by sea to Mazagan isabout 52 miles, or by road fourteen hours, say 60 miles.* To Aoldd Jerar, 3 hours; Dar oold el Haj Kasem, 4 hours; toAzammiir 4 hours; crossing river \ hour; to Mazagan 2\ CHAPTER THE TENTHOPEN rOKTS —6 EL JADIDA (MAZAGAN) MAZAGAX atfoicls, perhaps, the only instance inMorocco in which the European name preservesthe original appellation, while the native name is nomore than half a description, which might suit manyanother place better, being simply The New,, The New Little Fort,—El Borijah elJadidah—the name by which the fortress built by thePortuguese in 1506 became known to the Moors. Theolder word, Mazagan,* is itself in all probability only apart of the original name of the spot, near to whichwere in those days heaps of stones which marked aruined town, for it is evidently a corruption of the wordImazighan, by which the Morocco Berbers describe them-selves, f In the New World, too, it has found a placeas the name of the colony established on the shores ofPara, in Brazil, by the Portuguese who in 1769 abandonedthis Mazagan—officially known as Castilho Real X—tothe Moors then besieging
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