WESTERN BARBARY:IT'S WILD TRIBES AND SAVAGE ANIMALS

Hay, J.H. Drummond

Numéro d'objet:	44
Date:	1844
Genre:	Livre
Lieu:	Londres
Sujet:	Ethnologie / Ethnographie

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1844. Hay, J. H. Drummond, afterwards Sir John H. – Western Barbary; its wild tribes and savage animals. London: 8vo, pp. 177.
The journey which forms the groundwork of this volume was undertaken for the purpose of procuring for Her Majesty a barb of the purest breed from the region round Laraish ; a mission in which he failed. In the appendix he gives an account of the travels and murder of John Davidson In 1835.
It is full of picturesque information on Morocco and its Nomads.




Accurate descriptions of life in Tangier from the lynch pin of the strong relationship between Britain and Morocco throughout the 19th century. Drummond-Hay (1816[-]1893) was the very model of a diplomat, a fluent linguist with a lifetime of knowledge about Morocco and a trusted personal adviser to three generations of Sultans. He was educated for the job, living with his father (Consul-General Edward Drummond-Hay) in Tangier from the age of 16.