Charles Morris
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In the end the tower was burned by magic fire, and its very ashes were scattered by the wings of an innumerable flight of birds.
End of chapter three
Chapter four of Historical Tales Volume seven Spanish by Charles Morris.
This Libervox recording is in the public domain.
Chapter four The Battle of the Guadalete.
The legends just given are full of the pith of facts.
Dread of Africa lay deep in the Spanish heart and gave point to these and other magical and romantic tales.
The story of how the great conqueror Mohammed had come out from the deserts of Arabia and sent his generals, sword and Quran in hand, to conquer the world, had spread far to the east and the west and brought terror wherever it came.
From Arabia the Muslim hordes had swept through Egypt and along the African coast to the extremity of Morocco.
They now faced Spain and coveted that rich and populous land.
Well might the degenerate sons of the Goths fear their coming, and strive to keep them out with talismans and spells.
Years before, in the days of good King Wamba, a great Mohammedan fleet had ravaged the Andalusian coast.
Others came not for conquest but for spoil.
But at length all North Africa lay under the Muslim yoke, and Musa ibn Nasser, the conqueror of the African tribes, cast eyes of greed upon Spain and laid plans for the subjugation to Arab rule of that far spreading Christian land.
Africa, he was told, was rich, but Spain was richer.
Its soil was as fertile as that of Syria, its climate as mild and sweet as that of Arabi the Blessed.
The far famed mines of distant Cathay did not equal it in wealth of minerals and gems.
Nowhere else were such harbours, nowhere such highlands and plains.
The mountain ranges, beautiful to see, enclosed valleys of inexhaustible fertility.
It was a land plentiful in waters, renowned for their sweetness and clearness, and Illusia's noble streams.
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