Note 35 — II. NARRATIVE OF THE CAPTIVITY OF M. DE BRISSON (continued 2)
Patrick Maxwell translation
It is certain, that if Sidy Sellem had not wished to pay his homage to the emperor, (it was fifty years since he had been at Morocco), and had he not been called to the city by his own particular business, I would never have seen my native country; I was too far into the interior parts of the country ever to have escaped otherwise.