do not suffer those who survive to perish by famine. Our wive

warfare and redoubtable in the field. He wrote to him to leave Almeria
and repair with all speed at the head of
his troops to Baza. Cid Hiaya

departed immediately with ten thousand of the bravest Moors in the kingdom. These were for the most part
hardy mountaineers, tempered to sun and storm and tried in many a combat.
None equalled them for a sally or a skirmish. They were adroit in executing a thousand stratagems, ambuscado es, and evolutions. Impetuous in their assaults, yet governed in their utmost fury by a word or sign from their commander, at the sound of a trumpet they would check themselves in the midst of their career, wheel off and disperse, and at another sound of a trumpet they would as suddenly reassemble and

return to the attack. They were upon the enemy
when least expected, coming like a rushing blast, spreading havoc and consternation, and then passing away in an instant; so that when one recovered from the shock and looked around, behold, nothing was
to be seen or heard of this tempest of war but
a cloud of dust and the clatter of retreating hoofs.** * This name has generally been written Cidi Yahye.
The present mode is adopted on the authority of Alcantara in his History of Granada, who appears to have derived it from Arabic manuscripts existing in the archives of