that we are enjoying ourselves. One can not do otherwise who speeds over

these sparkling waters and breathes the soft atmosphere of this sunny

land. Care cannot assail us here. We are out of its jurisdiction.

We even steamed recklessly by the frowning fortress of Malabat

(a stronghold of the Emperor of Morocco) without a twinge of fear.

The whole garrison turned out under arms and assumed a threatening

attitude--yet still we did not fear. The entire garrison marched and

counter-marched within the rampart, in full view--yet notwithstanding

even this, we never flinched.

I suppose we really do not know what fear is. I inquired the name of the

garrison of the fortress of Malabat, and they said it was Mehemet Ali Ben

Sancom. I said it would be a good idea to get some more garrisons to

help him; but they said no, he had nothing to do but hold the place, and

he was competent to do that, had done it two years already. That was

evidence which one could not well refute. There is nothing like

reputation.

Every now and then my glove purchase in Gibraltar last night intrudes

itself upon me. Dan and the ship's surgeon and I had been up to the

great square, listening to the music of the fine military bands and

contemplating English and Spanish female loveliness and fashion, and at

nine o'clock were on our way to the theater, when we met the General, the

Judge, the Commodore, the Colonel, and the Commissioner of the United

States of America to Europe, Asia, and Africa, who had been to the Club

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