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"I'se gwine tell 'em I kin prove de gov'nor's de bes' man in de State by'splainin' er de tarif dat I kin prove it by'splainin' er de tarif so dey'll unnerstan' it ev'y word an' when I flirt my hank'chif dat time, Bob's gwine call out 'Yo' time's up, boss! an' I'se gwine answer back, 'Naw 'tain't, Bob, des lemme 'splain de tarif.
This was the western buttress of the gate of the Mediterranean, the base of the northern Pillar of Hercules, and esteemed one of the gates of Spain. By it five hundred years previously had the Moorish enemy first entered Spain at the summons of Count Julian, under their leader Tarif- abu-Zearah, whose name was bestowed upon it in remembrance of his landing there.
In the cathedral of Tarragona an elegant Moorish arch is noticeable, with a Kufic inscription giving the date as 960 A.D. For four centuries after this city was destroyed by Tarîf it remained unoccupied, so that much cannot be expected to call to mind his dynasty.
The name of this Mussulman chief, Tarif, was given to the spot first touched by the feet of the Mahommedan, which was called Tarifa; and as Tarifa was afterward the place where customs were collected, the word tariff is an imperishable memorial of that event.
We shall not here recapitulate the well-known incidents of the wrongs and revenge of Count Yllan, or Julian, the first landing of Tarif at Tarifa, the second expedition sent by Musa under Tarik Ibn Zeyad, and the death or disappearance of the Gothic king on the fatal day of Guadalete.
"Yes," the captain, who had just joined them, said. "Tarif was a great Moorish commander, I have heard, and the place is named after him. Gibraltar is also named after a Moorish chief, called Tarik ibn Zeyad." Bob looked surprised. "I don't see that it is much like his name, captain." "No, Master Repton, it doesn't sound much like it, now.
In the chorus the words were distinguishable, borne in the robust accents of Captain Sand "Us ki ho tarif, Us ki ho tarif!" The strange words, limping on the familiar air, made a barbarous jangle, a discordance of a specially intolerable sort. "Glory to His name! Glory to His name!"
Thus the liberty of the distressed and lowest citizens would have a tarif; and this strange tax would bear hard on the very numerous portion of prostitutes, professed gamblers, quacks, hawkers, swindlers, and adventurers, all people who do mischief, and whom it is necessary to punish; but who do more mischief when they are obliged to pay, and purchase, during a certain time, the privilege of their irregularities.
Musa, half doubting, sent a preliminary force of about five hundred Moors under a chief named Tarif, to the opposite coast; and the Moors found, as was promised, that they might range at their own will and pleasure in that earthly paradise of Andalusia.
Tarik, with his men, landed at the foot of the rock now called Jebalu-l-fatah, "the mountain of the entrance," and which then received his name, and was called Jebal-Tarik, "the mountain of Tarik"; while his companion, Tarif, landed on the island afterward called after him Jezirah-Tarif, "the island of Tarif."
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