THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. 9T 



tion that fell afterwards from that quarter upon his coun- 

 try.— It will be proper now to look back into the tranfadlions 

 in Europe, which are partly conneded with the hiftory of 

 this kingdom. 



The conqueft of the north part of Africa followed the 

 redudlion of Egypt, and the whole coaft of Barbary was 

 crowded with Mahometans, from Alexandria to the weftern 

 ocean, and from the Mediterranean to the edge of the de- 

 fert. Even the defer t itfelf was filled with them ; and trade, 

 fecurity, and good faith, were now everywhere diffemina- 

 ted in regions, a few years before the feat of murder and 

 pillage. 



Tarik and his Moors had invaded Spain ; Mufa followed 

 him, and conquered it. The hillory of Count Julian is in 

 every one's hand ; unfortunate in having had the provoca- 

 tion, ftill more fo in having had the power to revenge it, 

 by facrificing at once his fovereign, his country, religion, 

 and life, to the private injuries done to his daughter. As 

 often as I have read the hiftory of this cataftrophe, fo often 

 have I regretted to fee with how little ceremony this young 

 lady hath been treated by authors of all languages and na- 

 tions. They call her C^^K with the fame eafe and indiffer- 

 ence as they would have called her Anne, or Margaret. This 

 muft be from mere ignorance. Caaba could not be the 

 name of the daughter of Count Julian before her fcdua:ion. 

 Caaba means Harlot, in the broadcft way poffible to exprefs 

 the term, and very cruelly and improperly, it feems to be 

 given her^ even after her misfortune ; for Ihe was a daugh- 

 ter of the firil family in Spain, of unexceptionable virtue. 



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