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[223] Badajoz.

[224] The history of this battle wants authenticity.

[225] As already observed, there is no authentic proof that Don Alonzo
used such severity to his mother as to put her in chains. Brandan says
it was reported that Don Alonzo was born with both his legs growing
together, and that he was cured by the prayers of his tutor, Egas Nunio.
Legendary as this may appear, this however is deducible from it, that
from his birth there was something amiss about his legs. When he was
prisoner to his son-in-law, Don Fernando, king of Leon, he recovered his
liberty ere his leg, which was fractured in the battle, was restored, on
condition that as soon as he was able to mount on horseback, he should
come to Leon, and in person do homage for his dominions. This condition,
so contrary to his coronation agreement, he found means to avoid. He
ever after affected to drive in a calash, and would never mount on
horseback more. The superstitious of those days ascribed this infirmity
to the curses of his mother.

[226] _Phasis. _--A river of Colchis.

[227] A frontier town on the Nile, bordering on Nubia.

[228] _Colchis. _--A country of Asia Minor bordering on the Black
Sea. --_Ed.
_

[229]

_Tu quoque littoribus nostris, AEneia nutrix, AEternam moriens famam,
Caieta, dedisti. _ VIRG. AEn. vii.

[230] _i. e. _ Tangiers, opposite to Gibraltar. --_Ed. _

[231] This should be _Emir el Moumeneen_, _i. e. _, Commander of the
Faithful. --_Ed. _

[232] The Mondego is the largest river having its rise within the
kingdom of Portugal and entering no other state. --_Ed. _

[233] _Miramolin. _--Not the name of a person, but a title, _quasi
Sultan_; _the Emperor of the Faithful_.