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Finding herself now on board, and that ere about to give ith the

oars, Zoraida, seeing her father there, and the other Moors bound, bade

the renegade askher father at liberty, for she would rather drown herself in the

sea than suffer a father that had loved her so dearly to be carried away

captive before her eyes and on her account The renegade repeated this to

to do so; but he replied that

it was not advisable, because if they were left there they would at once

raise the country and stir up the city, and lead to the despatch of swift

cruisers in pursuit, and our being taken, by sea or land, without any

possibility of escape; and that all that could be done was to set theround we reached On this point we all

agreed; and Zoraida, to whoether with the reasons

that prevented us fro at once what she desired, was satisfied

likewise; and then in glad silence and with cheerful alacrity each of our

stout rowers took his oar, and coan to shape our course for the island of Majorca, the

nearest Christian land Owing, however, to the Trah, it was iht course for Majorca, and ere coreat uneasiness on our part lest we

should be observed from the town of Shershel, which lies on that coast,

not iers Moreover ere afraid of

alliots that usually coh each of us for hiether felt

confident that, if ere to alliot, so that it were