Minor morals for young people: Illustrated in tales and travels. . ngry and unsheltered. It was under one of the pahn trees, nowso venerable, that Abdallah gathered his last 202 MINOR MORALS. council of war. I fancied I saw the chieftainsassemble there, and heard the harangue whichthe chronicler has put into the mouth of theirmonarch. • Valiant men and brethren ! Wehave toiled and triumphed in vain. Algiershas betrayed—Turkey has deserted us. Fezand Morocco have been deaf to our supplica-tions. We have lost our citadels and ourships. Hunger has destroyed us more mer-cilessly than arms. Our wiv
Minor morals for young people: Illustrated in tales and travels. . ngry and unsheltered. It was under one of the pahn trees, nowso venerable, that Abdallah gathered his last 202 MINOR MORALS. council of war. I fancied I saw the chieftainsassemble there, and heard the harangue whichthe chronicler has put into the mouth of theirmonarch. • Valiant men and brethren ! Wehave toiled and triumphed in vain. Algiershas betrayed—Turkey has deserted us. Fezand Morocco have been deaf to our supplica-tions. We have lost our citadels and ourships. Hunger has destroyed us more mer-cilessly than arms. Our wives and childrenperish—they invoke either captivity or death !Surrender then—though I cannot sun is rising, while mine is darkeninginto night. The vow that I have vowed tothe Prophet I must keep; it only brings withit the doom of perpetual solitude, where I willmeditate on your virtues and mine own ad-versity. The women, says the chronicler, allburst into tears ; and the warriors said— Let ushave peace ! And the word peace !—^peace !. AFFECTION FOR INANIMATE OBJECTS. 203 passed from lip to lip as a fragrant flower mightpass from hand to hand—and Habaqui thevaliant, with a white flag which he placed ona lance, went to the Christian king, anda treaty of peace was made: made to bebroken. Abdallah, deserted by his ancientfollowers, wandered long among the moun-tains, where he was hunted like a beast ofprey, and being at last discovered, was orderedto Granada,—there to die. As he passed nearone of the palm trees that reminded him ofother days, he broke out into bitter lamenta-tions, and was much more sorrowfully afiectedthan he had been by all the misery he hadwitnessed. The clironicler says, that as hewas descending on his mule down the pre-cipitous side of a mountain, where there wasa deep ravine below, he took a last look atthe palm trees, and flung himself into theabyss, being dashed to pieces among the sharp 204 MINOR MORALS. and cruel rocks. Th
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