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FOOTNOTES:

[1] Note to the Revised Edition.—The Author feels at liberty to mention that his travelling companion was the Prince Dolgorouki, at present Russian minister at the Court of Persia.

[2] It may be as well to note here, that the alforjas are square pockets at each end of a long cloth about a foot and a half wide, formed by turning up its extremities. The cloth is then thrown over the saddle, and the pockets hang on each side like saddle-bags. It is an Arab invention. The bota is a leathern bag or bottle, of portly dimensions, with a narrow neck. It is also Oriental. Hence the scriptural caution, which perplexed me in my boyhood, not to put new wine into old bottles.

[3] See Urquhart’s Pillars of Hercules, B. III. C. 8.

[4] Urquhart’s Pillars of Hercules.

[5] Et porque era muy rubio llamaban lo los Moros Abenalhamar, que quiere decir bermejo ... et porque los Moros le llamaban Benalhamar que quiere decir bermejo tomo los señales bermejos, segun que los ovieron despues los Reyes de Granada.—Bleda, Cronica de Alfonso XI., P. I. C. 44.

[6] “Y los moros que estaban en la villa y Castillo de Gibraltar despues que sopieron que el Rey Don Alonzo era muerto, ordenaron entresi que ninguno non fuesse osado de fazer ningun movimiento contra los Christianos, ni mover pelear contra ellos, estovieron todos quedos y dezian entre ellos qui aquel diamuriera un noble rey y Gran principe del mundo.”

[7] Una de las cosas en que tienen precisa intervencion los Reyes Moros as en el matrimonio de sus grandes: de aqui nace que todos los señores llegadas à la persona real si casan en palacio, y siempre huvo su quarto destinado para esta ceremonia.

One of the things in which the Moorish kings interfered was in the marriage of their nobles: hence it came that all the señors attached to the royal person were married in the palace; and there was always a chamber destined for the ceremony.—Paseos por Granada, Paseo XXI.

[8] Alcántara, Hist. Granad., O. 3, p. 226, note.

[9] Salazar y Castro, Hist. Genealog. de la Casa de Lara, lib. v. c. 12, cited by Alcántara in his Hist. Granad.

[10] Al Makkari, B. VIII. c. 7.

[11] Alcántara, Hist. Granad., c. 17. See also Al Makkari, Hist. Mohama. Dynasties, B. VIII. c. 7, with the Commentaries of Don Pascual de Guyangos.

[12] For authorities for these latter facts, see the Appendix to the author’s revised edition of the Conquest of Granada.

[13] Ay una puerta en la Alhambra por la qual salio Chico Rey de los Moros, quando si rindio prisionero al Rey de España D. Fernando, y le entregó la ciudad con el castillo. Pidio esta principe como por merced, y en memoria de tan importante conquista, al que quedasse siempre cerrada esta puerta. Consintio en allo el Rey Fernando, y des de aquel tiempo no solamente no se abrio la puerta sino tambien se construyo junto à ella fuerte bastion.—Moreri’s Historical Dictionary, Spanish Edition, Vol. I. p. 372.

[14] The minor details of the surrender of Granada have been stated in different ways even by eye-witnesses. The author, in his revised edition of the Conquest, has endeavored to adjust them according to the latest and apparently best authorities.

[15] See a more detailed account of the exploit in the chronicle of the Conquest of Granada.

[16] Marmol, Hist. Rebellion of the Moors.

[17] Lest this should be deemed a mere stretch of fancy, the reader is referred to the following genealogy, derived by the historian Alcántara, from an Arabian manuscript, on parchment, in the archives of the Marquis of Corvera. It is a specimen of the curious affinities between Christians and Moslems, produced by capture and intermarriages, during the Moorish wars. From Aben Hud, the Moorish king, the conqueror of the Almohades, was descended in right line Cid Yahia Abraham Alnagar, prince of Almeria, who married a daughter of King Bermejo. They had three children, commonly called the Cetimerian Princes. 1st. Jusef ben Alhamar, who for a time usurped the throne of Granada. 2d. The Prince Nasar, who married the celebrated Lindaraxa. 3d. The Princess Cetimerien, who married Don Pedro Venegas captured by the Moors in his boyhood, a younger son of the House of Luque, of which house the old court was the present head.

[18] The reader will recognize the sovereign connected with the fortunes of the Abencerrages. His story appears to be a little fictionized in the legend.

[19] Torres. Hist. Ord. Alcántara. “Cron. Enrique III.” por Pedro Lopez de Ayala.

[20] Miguel Lafuente Alcántara.

[21] The authorities for the foregoing: Alcántara, Hist. Granada; Al Makkari, Hist. Mohamed; Dynasties in Spain, B. ii. c. 3; Notes and illustrations of the same, by Gayangos, Vol. I. p. 440; Ibnu Al Kahttib, Biograph. Dic., cited by Gayangos; Conde, Hist. Dom. Arab.