Indeed, the coasts and cities of Morocco are inundated with saints of every description and degree of sanctity.

In spring-time, during heavy rains, the plains are frequently inundated to a depth of two or three feet, and the water, stagnating and rotting under a blazing sun, produces towards nightfall a thick white mist, pregnant with miasma and the dreaded Shiráz fever which has proved fatal to so many Europeans, to say nothing of natives.

From his report it appears that the shores are overrun with mangroves (rhizophoreae) and that the whole of the back lands are inundated at high water, which accounts for the very strong tides we experienced.

This plain is evidently inundated during the wet season, though the soil was now dry and full of deep cracks.

Here were long plains, which must have been entirely inundated in the rainy season.