"Upon our arrival at Morocco we found that kingdom deluged with blood. Fifty sons of the Emperor Muley Ishmael were each at the head of a party. This produced fifty civil wars of blacks against blacks, of tawnies against tawnies, and of mulattoes against mulattoes. In short, the whole empire was one continued scene of carnage.
Quando llegámos, corrian rios de sangre por Marruecos; cada uno de los cincuenta hijos del emperador Muley-Ismael tenia su partido aparte, lo qual componia cincuenta guerras civiles distintas de negros contra negros, de negros contra moros, de moros contra moros, de mulatos contra mulatos; y todo el ámbito del imperio era una continua carnicería.