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A.M. 5303. THE AFRICAN JEWS SOLD. 351 and also a mixed multitude* of Arabs went with them†, and the young king also he brought with him thither. And the citizens feared, and sent men to meet him with the keys of the city in their hands. And the Spaniards drew nigh unto the city; and the king Mohammed fled before them, and gave it up to be plundered at that time. And Mansur brake the brazen gates and brought out Achmed, his sister's son, from the prisonhouse, and both fled; Mansur went with the king, and Achmed went another way, and his life was unto him a prey. And the king knew not that Mansur had brought this evil upon him. And the Spaniards made the youth who was with them king, and gave him Lucian, the Genoeset, to be leader; and they returned unto Oran.

1075. And the Jews also who were there in multitudes were given up to be plundered at that time, and they sold them as bondmen and handmaidens§, in the month Adar three hundred and three according to the smaller date, into the four corners of the earth. Some of them were set at liberty at Oran, and some at Fez, and some of them went captive before the oppressor|| into the land of Spain; and they changed their glory in the countries

+ Exod. xii. 38.

לוקין הגינוביס ;

|| Lam. i. 5.

† i. e. With the king's party. § Esth. vii. 4.

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of their enemies*. Behold, O Lord, and consider!t

1076. And Kayid Isat who was at Mostaghanims went out to meet King Mohammed, when he fled before his brother, and about two thousand men ran before him. And he bowed himself before the king to the ground, and spake unto his heart, and made him ride upon a horse, and led him unto Benirashid, and they abode there. And the Prince Martin went to fight against Mostaghanim at that time. And Kayid Isa spoiled the city of Mozigran¶, and gathered together all its men, and brought them unto Mostaghanim at that time; and they fortified themselves therein. And the Spaniards came unto Mozigran, and behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man**, and the men marvelled much††. And Kayid Isa sent messengers unto the viceroy who was at Algier, saying, "Go out and fight against the uncircumcised, and I will deliver up unto thee the city and the fulness thereof." And the thing was pleasing in his sight, and he sent five galleys by

i. e. They professed the religion of their persecutors. + Lam. ii. 20.

קאיד עישה $

is the Arabic name for Jesus, which

name is of frequent occurrence among them.

.מוצטינאניה $ .ביניראשית || .Masagan מוזיגראן

** 2 Kings vii. 10.

Comp. Amos vi. 8.

++ Comp. Gen. xliii. 33.

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MOSTAGHANIM, TREMEZEN, ORAN.

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Kayid Mohammed, and among the Spaniards who were in Mozigran they slew a great slaughter. And Kaid Isa also went out against them; and the war was against them both by sea and by land, and the Spaniards drew back. And Kaid Mansur, who was with the king Mohammed, went out also into the field with a strong hand, and remained between the camp of Kaid Isa and between the camp of the uncircumcised, so that the one came not near the other all the night*. And Isa was determined to fight, but Mansur would not hearken unto him, for he was a froward mant. And unto Prince Martin he sent, saying, Depart from us, for evil is determined against theet". And the uncircumcised fled all that night, and the men of the galleys fired guns upon them, and many fell to the ground. And they left the battering-rams in their haste, they looked not behind, and returned unto Oran with shame.

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1077. Then Mostaghanim was given into the hand of the Turks by the hand of Mohammed, and it belongeth unto them until this day.

1078. And Kaid Isa went and bowed himself before the king Mohammed unto the ground, and gave presents unto the Arabs; and they went unto Tremezen and took it, and put a garrison into the midst thereof. And the young king fled Exod. xiv. 20. + Comp. Prov. xvi. 28.

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before them, and lived in Fez many days. And Lucian, the Genoese, was taken alive; and they set a watch over him.

1079. And Kaid Mansur feared for his life, and fled from his master and went to Oran. And he sent and brought Achmed, the son of his sister, the brother of the king Mohammed, unto Oran ; and both abode together in Oran.

1080. And the viceroy who was in Algier went to fight against Tremezen; and they gave unto him silver and gold in abundance, and Lucian the Genoese, that he should return from thence; and he was entreated of them, and returned unto Algier.

1081. And King Francis sent again ships unto Turkey, unto Solyman the Turk, to bring Barbarossa with them to his help. And Solyman honored them very much, and gave unto them all they asked.

1082. And the Spaniards sought to come unto Turin with subtlety in the month Adar, three hundred and three, according to the smaller date, which is the year one thousand five hundred and forty-three. And they made ready six waggons [P] covered with straw, and in the midst thereof were soldiers and weapons of war; and he sent them unto Turin as at other times, to sell straw. And they came into the city, and an ambush went behind them; and the men came forth when they were in the gate of the city, and fought against

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SPANIARDS REPULSED FROM TURIN. 355

the watchmen and slew some of them suddenly with the edge of the sword, for they trusted in the liers-in-wait*. But the liers-in-wait delayed to come; and the men of the city, even the men of Turin, compassed about the entering-in of the gate†, and all the city was moved about them‡. Then they fought with them, and shut the iron gates; but the greater part of them were left without, and fled for their lives. Some also of those who were within went out under the gate, and them who hastened not to flee, they slew with the edge of the sword at that time. And the Spaniards turned back, and tarried not, because the§ Lord drave them; only Alessandro Majo||, a man of Milan, was left in the city, and he walked in its streets as a roaring lion¶, with his sword drawn in his hand; and all the people from every quarter compassed him about and trod him down with ease**, and he was taken in their pits.

1083. Let this month be solitary, let it not come into the number of the months††! for on the eighth of the month, three sons of Belial came into the house of Moses the priest, my brother-in-law, at Piave, within the borders of Ferrara. While Ruth i. 19.

* Jud. xx. 36.
§ Josh. xxiv. 18.

† Jud. ix. 44.

.אליסאנדרו מאיו ||

Ps. xxii. 13; Ps. xxviii. 13; Is. xxxi. 4; Est. xxxii. 25.

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