So I Departed And I Mounted A Ship, And I Went Into The
Land Of Barbary, Even Unto Fez, And When I Arrived There I Heard
Much Intelligence Of My Father, But It Was Intelligence Which
Perhaps Was Worse Than Ignorance.
For the Jews told me that my
father had been there, and had speculated and had thriven, and that
From thence he departed for Tafilaltz, which is the country of
which the Emperor, even Muley Abderrahman, is a native; and there
he was still prosperous, and his wealth in gold and silver was very
great; and he wished to go to a not far distant town, and he
engaged certain Moors, two in number, to accompany him and defend
him and his treasures: and the Moors were strong men, even
makhasniah or soldiers; and they made a covenant with my father,
and they gave him their right hands, and they swore to spill their
blood rather than his should be shed. And my father was encouraged
and he waxed bold, and he departed with them, even with the two
false Moors. And when they arrived in the uninhabited place, they
smote my father, and they prevailed against him, and they poured
out his blood in the way, and they robbed him of all he had, of his
silks and his merchandise, and of the gold and silver which he had
made in his speculations, and they went to their own villages, and
there they sat themselves down and bought lands and houses, and
they rejoiced and they triumphed, and they made a merit of their
deed, saying, 'We have killed an infidel, even an accursed Jew';
and these things were notorious in Fez.
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