Note 203 — Chapter II · RABAT.
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Al Makbari, passing by Malta, exclaims, “That accursed island, from the neighbourhood of which whoever escapes may well say, that he has deserved favour;—that dreaded spot, which throws its deadly shade on the pleasant waters of the Mediterranean—that den of iniquity and treason, that place of ambush, which is like a net to circumvent the Moslems that sail the seas!”