Excerpt from Our Mission to the Court of Marocco in 1880: Under Sir John Drummond Hay, K. C. B., Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary to His Majesty the Sultan

Whatever weight I might have been inclined to attach to the fluctuating expressions of friendly opinion contained in the above lines, there is at all events one ground on which I have been nearly tempted to allow the noes to have it, and that is the length of time which has elapsed since the return of the Mission.

The delay has been a matter of great regret to me, and its cause-viz. the long continuance of a severe fever, contracted either amid the scenes of which I write, or in that valuable but pestilential possession of Her Majesty, the Rock of Gibraltar-must also be my excuse for any imperfection of style or composition which may be found in this volume.

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