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372 WAR OF GRANADA. PART meagreness of the Moslem an- I. nals compels us to lament the pre- mature death of Conde. It can hardly be expected, indeed, that the Moors should have dwelt with much amplification on this humili- ating period. But there can be little doubt, that far more copious memorials of theirs than any now published, exist in the Spanish libraries ; and it were much to be wished that some oriental scholar would supply Conde's deficiency, by exploring these authentic re- cords of what may be deemed, as far as Christian Spain is concern- ed, the most glorious portion of her history.
