KORT UNDERRETNING OM DET MAROCCANSKE SLAVERI I AARENE 1751, 1752, OG 1753 DAGVIS FORFATTET PAA VERS AF DEN AF EXPEDITIONEN ANTAGNE KASSERER . . . . DEVÆRENDE SLAVE.

Ravn, Wilhelm Frederich

Numéro d'objet:	734
Date:	1754
Genre:	Livre
Lieu:	Copenhague
Sujet:	Captifs

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1754. Ravn, Wilhelm Frederik. – Kort Underretning om det Maroccanske Slaveri i Aarene 1751, 1752, og 1753 dagvis forfattet paa vers af den af expeditionen antagne kasserer . . . . deværende Slave. Kjöbenhavn: 4to, pp. 98.
In 1751 the Danish Government sent to Mowlai Abdallah, or rather to his son Mohammed, then the virtual ruler, an embassy on board of two frigates. This mission was under the direction of Col. Longueville, and numbered among its members Lieut. (afterwards Admiral) Kaas, and Ravn, as Treasurer of the party, who wrote in quaint Danish doggerel an account of its adventures. Owing to mismanagement, ignorance of the country, and, above all, to the misrepresentations of a Moorish Jew, whom they trusted too implicitly, the entire embassy were put under arrest in Merakish, on the ground that the Danes had without permission established a fortified post at Santa Cruz. Höst has preserved a plan of the house in which they lived, - a building, according to Ravn, of clay, one story high and with three rooms:
« Fik en Stage höi, plat Tag og ikke meer,
End 3 smaa Kamere og Murene af Leer. »

In 1753 Captain Lützow obtained a concession for a Danish Company, which, by paying 50,000 piastres per annum, obtained the exclusive commerce of Safi and Salli. But it was unfortunate, and, finally finding itself unable to compete with the Mogador and Larache merchants, became bankrupt.