Accommodations were provided for the party at the house of Colonel Mathews.

In company with the Consul General next day, Paul visited the old Sheriff of Tangier, to whom he was introduced as the water god of America.

The superstitious old Moor looked at Boyton with great respect and remarked, Colonel Mathews interpreting: "I am well pleased that the water god has made his appearance on these shores as there has been a terrible drought here for sometime, and we are sadly in need of a rainfall to moisten the parched lips of our soil and I hope the great water god of your country will deign to favor us." Boyton had been noticing the clouds since morning; his sailor training told him it would not be long before rain would fall, so he answered the Sheriff's appeal with a sly wink at the Colonel, as follows: "The request of the Sheriff is well.

I promise that rain will come before a great while." Before they left the house, luckily for Paul, it did begin to rain and the old man was absolutely bewildered with astonishment, having not the least doubt that the rain had been called by the American.

To this day, the Moors of Tangier tell the story of how the drought was ended by a wonderful American who came out of the sea one night.
On returning to the Colonel's house, Boyton was waited on by a delegation of distinguished Moors; old, white bearded fellows, in turbans and burnouse.