| {273} Presents made to me in Morocco
10th By the Sultan: about a dozen branches of very fine dates By Ben Dris: Pigeons, a hare & 5 partridges ( 1 doll) 11th By the Sultan: 3 gazelles, all bucks, one had its legs burnt (4 dolls) By ? Do 2 turkeys (1 doll) return to main text |
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No 1 & 2. two trunks made in Tangier covered with red leather & handsomely ornamented with brass, containing 6 pieces of fines broad cloth
Box No 1 contained 3 pieces viz: |
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No 10 of Invoice |
Powder blue |
20 ½ yards |
No 13 do do |
Yellow |
16 |
No 9 do do |
Green |
20 ½ |
all covered at top with a fine large French silk kerchief from Messrs Duguid (2) |
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Box No 2 contained 3 pieces viz: |
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No 5 of Invoice |
Orange |
20 ¼ |
No 7 do do |
White |
21 |
No 12 do do |
Crimson |
20¼ |
covered with a silk kerchief as Box No 1 |
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No 3 Trunk made at Tangier covered as the former containing 8 pieces of Irish linen
No 4 Box covered with Marocco leather, but all of British manufacture, contained six shawls from Hawes & Hurt (3)viz |
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1 large white Harlequin cashmere |
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7 Guineas |
1 long stripe silk shawl |
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8 guineas |
1 Crimson do |
Fine border |
5 1/2 |
1 green do do |
do |
10 |
1 amber do do |
do |
7 |
1 scarlet cashmere |
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11 |
No 5 box like the last containing 5 Book Robes [sic] for ladies one brought out from Hawes & Hurt & that proved on a close inspection at Tangier to be stained & was therefore left behind
{287} Box No 6. Superfine long cloth an all 4 pieces from Hawes and Hurt, 170 y[ar]ds; made as former (4) at Tangier & covered with red leather as all the former.
Box No 7. Four telescopes from Harris & son, (5) namely one |
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3 f[oot] achromatic telescope the body covered with rich crimson Genoa velvet & handsomely embroidered with Gold, mounted in Silver with one drawer engine turned & strongly gilt in a neat mahogany case |
£ 24 |
One 2 f[oot] Do Do metal gilt mountings in a neat mahogany case |
£14 |
& 2 1 f[oot] do do do in red Morocco leather cases at- |
£9.10 |
 More details on the telescopes here |
Boxes 8 & 9 Brass bedstead with hangings & green gauze mosquito curtains mounted with yellow. Mattress & pillow case of the patent air proof cloth covered the former on the upper side with crimson figured silk & the lower with crimson broadcloth; the pillow case covered all over with the same crimson silk. Handsome Japan pillows (6) &ca complete from Thurwell, Merriman & a 3d house, a duplicate whose bill for the airproof cloth sent to the Colonial Office was not given me but it amounted altogether to £42.3
Boxes 10, 11, 12, & 13 containing 40 double loaves of superfine sugar from Storidger, Cooper and Ca.
Box 14 from Do containing one chest of fine green(7) tea 62lb at 6/ deducting all the duties
{291} One Watch innermost case enamel on gold, 2d & chief case finest gold chasing set with 16 superb rose diamonds, outer case gold ornamented shagreen with god chain of quadruple chains twisted with gold watch key - all within a red morocco leather case: from Green & Co Cockspur St tied up in a French silk kerchief as Box no 1
The Letter of Credentials was also tied up (as according to usage in a silk kerchief as the last.
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| Mr Abensur's visiting Seedy Md
Ben Dris this eve[nin]g the Minister pointed out the following persons
in the Court to whom it wd be expected as customary that I sh[oul]d
make presents - namely
1 Mulai el Mamon Vice Roy of Marocco, brother
of the Emperor & Governor and Comm[ande]r in Chief of this City.
One of purple & one of powder blue each wrapped in a silk kerchief, 4 of them being from those bought of Messrs Duguid & CO Two pieces of fine Irish - in silk kerchief Four dtto fine muslin in 2 ditto One box of fine sugar 10 double loaves Four boxes Imperial tea of 2 lb each in one silk kerchief |
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| Present sent
Mulai l'Mamoon, brother of the Sultan,
Vice Roy & Gov[erno]r of the City of Marocco
2 cuts of finest cloth 2 pieces of Irish (one finest) 2 Ditto Muslin finest 4 double loaves of sugar (bought in Marocco) 2 boxes of tea Imperial 2 lb each 4 Fez [??] silk kerchiefs 3 Tangier ditto 1 watch |
Present to Moctar
E'Zamhy - 2nd clerk of ye Sultan
2 cuts of cloth finest 2 pieces of Irish (one finest) 2 pieces of finest muslin 3 double loaves of Sugar - Marocco 2 boxes 2lb each Imperial tea 6 Fez silk kerchiefs
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ben el Taher in the Office of Moctar & in place of Mulai el Ghazy absent,
the same as the last.
{319} To the Meschoire fees $150 & to Alkaid Labas, Acting Kaid of ditto $50 as given by Consul Douglas in Fez in 1824=$200 |
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Gilaly
1 cut of cloth best 1 piece Irish detto 2 dtto Muslin common 2 double loaves sugar 4 cann[ister]s tea ½lb each 3 Fez silk kerchiefs |
The Emperor's gatekeeper
1 cut of Marocco bought broadcloth 2 pieces common muslin 2 double loaves sugar 3 canisters tea 2 Fez kerchiefs |
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5 clerks in Office of Ben Dris same as Seedy Gilaly
The 2 general officers of the troops, to Kaid el Hadge Abd del Slam, to Kaid al Madany, same as the last The Commissary General of the troops - same as last with addition of a piece of Irish ordinary The Kaid d'Affarg, the Kaid de Rhamna - Governor of province of Rhamna, Kaid Embarek Ezemrany, Governor of Province Ezemran (which two latter came with their troops to meet me on passing Al Kantra) & the Kaid Feragy, formerly seal keeper to the late Sultan Mulai Soliman - the same presents for each as to the Emperor's Gatekeeper, except that to the Governors of the 2 Provinces 2 cuts of cloth each. |
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2 pieces of finest Irish 6 double loaves of finest sugar 1 cut of . . . . [illegible] silk velvet 3 boxes (2 lb each) of Imperial tea. 3 French silk kerchief 6 Tangier bought do |
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I had sat up until near 2 this morning, writing
and making up so as to secure it from rain with assistance of a shoemaker
& a goat's skin, the tin box that conveys the numerous letter
of myself and suite to Tangier, Gibraltar, England &c.
| {345} Wednesday
30 Dec: 1829
Contents of box packed by me this day 6 red goats skins 6 yellow ditto 4 white ditto viz 2 thick & 2 thin 1 carpet of the Berebbers' manufacture & One leopard skin tanned - given me by Ben Dris. 3 pair Moorish slippers viz 1 gilt, 1 white & 1 yellow 2 p[air]s Jewesses shoes 1 white leather girdle embroidered with light blue silk Headstall & bridle of red leather and silk velvet in Moorish fashion for my best Moorish saddle 4 leather covered playing balls. 4 silk kerchiefs bought at Marocco at 24 ounces each = 8 dollars when 15 oz = 1 dollar 4 large square & 3 ditto smaller leather purses also 3 bullet bags Also sent one red leather skin bought by me in a tan yard at Marocco. The parcel in dark wax cloth containing the haiks soolhams &c noted up p 1 of this vol. |
{353} Two more gazelles sent this Evening as a present from the Sultan to the King - one fortunately a doe. This has been 5 years & the buck 4 domesticated in Moorish families for [??] the last year they have been together.
I had sent a hint to the Vizeer 2 days ago
that as H.I.M.'s present of gazelles did not as yet include both sexes
the value of the Sultan's gift to my royal master would be much enhanced
by the gift of a female. The answer brought back was most civil - inter
alia that, I had asked for one more gazelle - two should certainly
be sent & if the could be found in the Sultan's home stock two does.
I ordered 4 dollars to the bringer as had been given to the man who brought
the 3 gazelles soon after my arrival & of which one soon died in consequence
of its leg having been severely burnt before it was delivered to myself.
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1 These two pages - 285 and 287 - are inserted without being dated at the beginning of the volume. Page 286 which is dated starts abruptly in mid-sentence.
2 Of Gibraltar. John Duguid was a prominent merchant, with wide international connections, including the United States. See Martin Family Papers Rhode Island Historical Society "Folder 5. John D. Martin (son of Silvanus Martin Jr.)" 6 letters re mercantile trade, dated Gibraltar, 1816-1818, mostly from John Duguid. http://www.rihs.org/mssinv/Mss999.htm
4. That is, the boxes were made in Tangier.
5 Thomas Harris and his son William of 50 High Holborn London. See link on telescopes .