SKETCHES IN SPAIN AND MOROCCO.

Brooke, Arthur de Capell

Numéro d'objet:	38
Date:	1831
Genre:	Livre
Lieu:	Londres
Sujet:	Voyages

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1831. Brooke, Sir Arthur de Capell. – Sketches in Spain and Morocco, 2 vol., 8vo. Vol. i. pp. 432 ; vol. ii. pp. 392 + Index ; pp. 11. Plates (in vol. i.) of a Moorish Female in her Hayk, Tetuan and Tangier; (in vol. ii.) Cape Trafalgar and the Coast of Europe from the Barary shores, El Uted, Laraiche, and distant view of part of the range of the Lower Atlas.
The author, who died in 1859, was never further than Tangier, Tetuan, Laraiche, and the monolith at El Uted (or Mzorah), which he was the first to describe. But his work is still worthy of reference for a picture of the places visited in 1820-30. He describes, for instance, Sweden as still paying tribute to the Moorish corsairs, and how « Moorish brigs of war » sailed eastward « in hopes of pouncing upon some unfortunate Bremen or Hamburgh merchantmen, » though at that time piracy and Christian slavery had been abolished by treaty.



Brooke arriva à Tanger le 28 septembre 1827, y resta quelques jours puis se rendit à Tétouan avec le nouvel agent anglais Price. Ses notes sur la ville (1828)sont d'un grand intérêt. Brooke développa pour la première fois dans son livre un plan de colonisation commerciale et agricole à partir de Gibraltar.

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