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No sooner had the soldiers embarked than a new storm arose, less violent than the former, but sufficient to scatter the ships to right and left, some making port in Spain, some in Italy, all seeking such harbors of refuge as they could find. The emperor, after passing through great perils, was driven to the port of Bugia in Africa, where contrary winds held him prisoner for several weeks.
Brief Description of Africa, by Richard Eden . In the lesser Africa are the kingdoms of Tunis and Constantina, which latter is at this day subject to Tunis, and also the regions of Bugia, Tripoli, and Ezzah. This part of Africa is very barren, by reason of the great deserts of Numidia and Barca. The principal ports of the kingdom of Tunis are, Goletta, Bizerta, Potofarnia, Bona, and Stora.
"So che andar diritto mi bisogna, Ch' io non ci mescolassi una bugia, Che questa non è storia da menzogna; Che come in esco un passo de la via, Chi gracchia, chi riprende, e chi rampogna: Ognun poi mi riesce la pazzia; Tanto ch' eletto ho solitaria vita, Che la turba di questi è infinita.
Lanty was purring over his foster-brother, and cosseting him like a cat over a newly-recovered kitten, resolved not to see how much shaken the poor Abbe's intellect had been, and quite sure that the reverend father would be altogether himself when he only had his soutane again. 'Well hath the Prophet-chief your bidding done. Bugia was thoroughly Moorish, and subject to attacks of fanaticism.
The conquest of Africa, though not nearly so advantageous to the commerce of the Arabians, was yet of some importance to them in this point of view: it gradually extended from the Nile to the Atlantic Ocean. Tripoly was the first maritime and commercial city which their arms reduced: Bugia and Tangier were next reduced.
As we approach the seacoast, the well-known cities of Bugia and Tangier define the more certain limits of the Saracen victories.
Tempest. Bugia, though midway on the 'European lake, is almost unknown to modern travellers, though it has become a French possession.
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