TRAVELS IN EUROPE AND AFRICA . . . . COMPRISING A JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE, SPAIN, AND PORTUGAL TO MOROCCO WITH A PARTICULAR ACCOUNT OF THAT EMPIRE,

Keatinge, Maurice Colonel

Numéro d'objet:	404
Date:	1817
Genre:	Livre
Lieu:	Londres
Sujet:	Voyages

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1816. Keatinge, Colonel Maurice. – ; Travels in Europe and Africa . . . . comprising a Journey through France, Spain, and Portugal to Morocco with a particular account of that empire, &c. London : 4to, 2 vol. (bound in one). Many plates. Vol. i. pp. 346, Preface and Contents xvii; vol. ii. pp. 274.
The portions relating to Morocco – Mogador to Merakish, and up the coast to Tangier, the regular route of the embassies, one of which (Mr. Payne's) Col. Keatinge accompanied – are in vol. i. pp. 175-346 and in vol. ii. pp. 1-54. The journey was, however, made in 1785, and though diffuse is valuable for the account it gives of Mowlai Abdalla; of whom a most repulsive portrait serves as frontispiece.
At the time of Keatinge's visit to Merakish there seemed to have been, what is not the case now, auite a little European colony there – including a Venetian who was the Sultan's mercantile agent, a Prussian, and two Spanish monks who had a « hospicio » there, and were engaged in the redemption of Christian captives. There was also a tiny « Danish garden. » There were several renegades, including a Frenchman and his French wife, and numbers of people of consequence, the descendants of old renegades, who were always addressed as « Uncles ». Among them was an Englishman, Thomas Myers, who bore the title of El-Kaid Boazzer. He professed to be one of the crew of the Inspector privateer, wrecked in Tangier Bay in January 1745 (No. 37), - a statement which is confirmed by one « Thomas Mears » appearing in the list of the twenty members of the crew who « turn'd Moors ».

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