The Alhambra, being a brief record of the Arabian conquest of the Peninsula (1907)
Calvert, Albert Frederick, 1872-1946 · London, John Lane; New York, John Lane company · leaf 94
who knew how to honour merit,whether in friend or foe! The Spanish chroniclers, themselves,bear witness to this magnanimity: according to their accounts,the Moorish cavaliers shared the sentiment of their king andput on mourning for the death of Alonzo. Even those Moorsof Gibraltar, which had been… … THE SULTANS BATH, CONSTRUCTED BY YUSUF I. Upon the day on which the camp was broken up, and thearmy departed bearing the corpse of Alonzo, the Moors issuedin multitudes from Gibraltar, and stood mute and melancholy,watching the mournful pageant. The same reverence for thedeceased was observed on…
