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"Daughter, is this true, what he says?" cried the Moor

"It is," replied Zoraida

"That thou art in truth a Christian," said the old iven thy father into the power of his enemies?"

To which Zoraida made answer, "A Christian I am, but it is not I who have

placed thee in this position, for it never was ood to hter?" said he

"Ask thou that," said she, "of Lela Marien, for she can tell thee better

than I"

The Moor had hardly heard these words ithhimself headforemost into the sea, where no doubt he would have

been drowned had not the long and full dress he wore held him up for a

little on the surface of the water Zoraida cried aloud to us to save

hi him by his robe we drew him

in half drowned and insensible, at which Zoraida was in such distress

that she wept over hih he were

already dead We turned hireat quantity

of water, and at the end of two hours caed ere compelled to head for the land, and ply our

oars to avoid being driven on shore; but it was our good fortune to reach