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Deep were the curses that the outlaws uttered, and fierce were the threats against the Talbot if ever he should venture himself on the Cumbrian moors; and still hotter was their wrath, more bitter the tears of the shepherd lord, when the further tidings were received that the Earl of Warwick had brought the gentle, harmless prince, to whom he had repeatedly sworn fealty, into London with his feet tied to the stirrups of a sorry jade, and men crying before him, 'Behold the traitor!
In all my dealings with the Moors, I have always discovered in them an ill-natured cowardice, which makes them insupportably insolent if you show them the least respect, and easily reduced to reasonable terms when you treat them with a high hand. After a march of some days we came to an opening between the mountains, the only passage out of Dancali into Abyssinia.
"Could shoot over as many miles again." "When thou'rt fifty years old, wilt not be so limber and have such muscles," said Sir Jeoffry. "She hath not so long to wait," said the third man, grinning. "Wast not fourteen in November, Clo? Wilt soon be a woman." She bit deep into her fruit and stared out over the moors below. "Am not going to be a woman," she said. "I hate them."
He halted abruptly, and put his hand on his dagger, when a low sharp whistle from the apparition before him was answered around behind; and, ere he could draw breath, the Israelite was begirt by a group of Moors, in the garb of peasants.
Letters from Tangier from my Lord, telling me how, upon a Great defete given to the Portuguese there by the Moors, he had put in 300 men into the towne, and so he is in possession, of which we are very glad, because now the Spaniards' designs of hindering our getting the place are frustrated.
But though the African husbands are possessed of great authority over their wives I did not observe that in general they treat them with cruelty, neither did I perceive that mean jealousy in their dispositions which is so prevalent among the Moors.
The object of the Order was to harry the Moorish pirates of the Mediterranean, to redeem their captives, and to convert these Moors to Christianity; nor were they wanting in war, for they fought at Lepanto. Cosimo placed the Order under the protection of St. Stephen, because he had gained his greatest victory on that saint's day.
While at anchor thirty of his Moorish prisoners made their escape, twelve of whom were retaken by means of his boat. Pacheco remained for some time off the Cape in expectation of the other ships of the Moors coming round from Coromandel, but none making their appearance, he went to Coulan with the ship he had captured, which he delivered to the factor at that city with all its rich merchandize.
"Oh, Fred, my boy," replied his father, seriously, "I am very sorry." "Sorry, father? Why, we may have a chance to see them all again." "Yes perhaps; but we are taking the horrors of war to the abode of peace, my boy." "Yes," said Fred, thoughtfully. "I did not think of that." "It was our duty and hope that we might keep the ruin and misery brought by war from our pleasant moors and lanes.
His guide told him that if Jenne was really the place of his destination, the journey was one of greater danger than he might suppose; for, although that town was nominally a part of the King of Bambarra's dominions, it was in fact a city of the Moors the chief part of the inhabitants being Bushreens, a fanatical Mahommedan sect.
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