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This volume is part three of three and was published in 1874.

Book Excerpts:
It was in the beginning of the eighth century, in
the year 711, that the Arabs, filled with the spirit of
conquest which had been breathed into them by their
warlike apostle, after traversing the southern shores of
the Mediterranean, reached the borders of those straits
that separate Africa from Europe. Here they paused
for a moment, before carrying their banners into a
strange and unknown quarter of the globe. It was
but for a moment, however, when, with accumulated
strength, they descended on the sunny fields of Anda-
lusia, met the whole Gothic array on the banks of the
Guadalete, and, after that fatal battle in which King
Roderick fell with the flower of his nobility, spread
themselves, like an army of locusts, over every part of
the Peninsula. Three years sufficed for the conquest
of the country, except that small corner in the north,
where a remnant of the Goths contrived to maintain a
savage independence, and where the rudeness of the
soil held out to the Saracens no temptation to follow
them.
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It was much the same story that was repeated, more
than three centuries later, by the Norman conquerors
in England. The battle of Hastings was to that king-
dom what the battle of the Guadalete was to Spain
though the Norman barons, as they rode over the
prostrate land, dictated terms to the vanquished of a
sterner character than those granted by the Saracens.
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The war, which Don John had flattered himself he
had so happily brought to a close, now, like a fire
smothered but not quenched, burst forth again with
redoubled fury. The note of defiance was heard
loudest among the hills of Ronda, a wild sierra on
the western skirts of the Alpujarras, inhabited by a
bold and untamed race, more formidable than the
mountaineers of any other district of Granada. Aben-
Aboo did all he could to fan the flame of insurrection
in this quarter, and sent his own brother, El Galipe, to
take the command.
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The body of Aben-Aboo was transported to the
neighborhood of Granada, where preparations were
made for giving the dead chief a public entrance into
the city, as if he had been still alive. The corpse was
set astride on a mule, and supported erect in the saddle
by a wooden frame, which was concealed beneath ample
robes. On one side of the body rode Barredo ; on
the other, El Senix, bearing the scimitar and arquebuse
of his murdered master. Then followed the kinsmen
and friends of the Morisco prince, with their arms by
their side. A regiment of Castilian infantry and a
troop of horse brought up the rear.