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Title: Rambles in sunny Spain
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Ober, Frederick A(lbion), 1849- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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roop. The Spaniards took the town and its crag-builtfortress, giving the wretched inhabitants leave to make shift as theypleased, but taking away their homes. Then, when the flower ofAndalusian soldiery had gathered about his banner, when the coastwas white with the sails of assembling sailors anxious to share in thespoils of a great city, Ferdinand marched upon Malaga. He closelyinvested the city, by land and sea. But it was rich and well-stored,with all the necessities and luxuries of life. Its walls were of greatstrength, washed by the sea on one side, by a river on another, andclimbing the hills behind the town. The river-gate was defendedby two towers of strength ; at the opposite and upper end of thetown, as it ran up the slopes of the eastern hill, was the vast citadel,capable of holding thousands, known as the Alkazaba. Immediatelyabove the citadel was the impregnable fortress of Gibralfaro, ancientlya lighthouse, as its name indicates,— Gibel-faro (hill of the light-tower).
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<< ilii.l CADIZ, GIBRALTAR, AND MALAGA. 205 This was connected with the Alkazaba by a zigzag staircase, coveredand protected by thick walls; but as it crowned the apex of a steephill it dominated both citadel and city. The alcaydes of the city and citadel were empowered by the citizensto make an honorable capitulation, and had they succeeded, doubtlessthe fate of Malaga would have been less terrible. But the dominatingfortress of the Gibralfaro was held by a fierce African Moor of theimplacable tribe of Zegri, who never gave or expected quarter, andhated the Christians with a hatred only to be quenched in blood.Hamet el Zegri, as he was called, commanded a band of wild Africanwarriors, equally fierce as himself. Their chieftain had not longsince lost his mountain stronghold of Ronda to the Spaniards, andhe was now determined to defend Malaga to the last. While thealcayde of the city was trying to make terms with Ferdinand, El Zegridescended to the Alkazaba, put its commander to

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