The Burton Holmes lectures; . HIS FIRST EMBARKATION ?02 THE MOORISH EMPIRE. KAIiAT— Tlli;cri\ AM> IHl, tllADl We know it as the Beni-Hasan tower, a sister to the famedGiralda of Seville and to the Kutubiya of Morocco same Sultan, Yakub el Mansur, the great builder, rearedthis trinity of towers about eight liundred years ago. To-day they prove the vast extent of his dominion ; to himowed allegiance all the lands which lie between Andalusia inthe south of Spain, and Marrakesh, on the borders of theGreat Sahara. But the Beni-Hasan pile was never stands to-day as the workme
The Burton Holmes lectures; . HIS FIRST EMBARKATION ?02 THE MOORISH EMPIRE. KAIiAT— Tlli;cri\ AM> IHl, tllADl We know it as the Beni-Hasan tower, a sister to the famedGiralda of Seville and to the Kutubiya of Morocco same Sultan, Yakub el Mansur, the great builder, rearedthis trinity of towers about eight liundred years ago. To-day they prove the vast extent of his dominion ; to himowed allegiance all the lands which lie between Andalusia inthe south of Spain, and Marrakesh, on the borders of theGreat Sahara. But the Beni-Hasan pile was never stands to-day as the workmen left it ili the year owes its existence to the builder of the tower, wholate in the twelfth century founded on this promontory hisCamp of Victory, Rabat el Fatih. The frowning cita-del sits darkly on the crest between the harbor and the sea,the smiling city lies gleaming just below. We follow thebroad, animated beach, enter at the water-gate, present ourcredentials to the governor, and after some delay a camping-ground is assignetl us on the crest within t
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