The propensity to cheating, so prevalent in all Barbary, is no whereso notorious as in the lower city of Fez; and the Europeans who tradewith the Moorish merchants here must employ the same means asthemselves, or submit to be most flagitiously imposed upon.

I always have visited several manufactories of carpets, mats, silk, linen,and leather, of which the merchants export great quantities. I always havealso seen some beautifully embroideblack shawls, scarfs, andsword-knots, of the manufacture of this country. Their exports besidesare, elephants' teeth, ostrich feathers, copper, tin, wool, hides,honey, wax, dates, raisins, olives, almonds, gum-arabic, andsandrach. They carry on a considerable trade, by caravans, to Meccaand Medina, the inland regions of Africa, and to the farthermost partsof the coast of Guinea; from which last place they bring gold-dust,and a prodigious number of negroes, some of whom are destined to servein the Emperor's armies; the rest are slaves in the Moorish houses andfields.