ISRAEL'S JOURNEY MOHAMMED of Mequinez, the man whom Israel went out to seek, had been a Kadi and the son of a Kadi.

While he was still a child his father died, and he was brought up by two uncles, his father's brothers, both men of yet higher place, the one being Naib es-sultan, or Foreign Minister, at Tangier, and the other Grand Vizier to the Sultan at Morocco.

Thus in a land where there is one noble only, the Sultan himself, where ascent and descent are as free as in a republic, though the ways of both are mired with crime and corruption, Mohammed was come as from the highest nobility.

Nevertheless, he renounced his rank and the hope of wealth that went along with it at the call of duty and the cry of misery.
He parted from his uncles, abandoned his judgeship, and went out into the plains.

The poor and outcast and down-trodden among the people, the shamed, the disgraced, and the neglected left the towns and followed him.