My eyes are resting upon a spot where stood a monument which was seen and described by Roman historians less than two thousand years ago, whereon was inscribed: "WE ARE THE CANAANITES.

WE ARE THEY THAT HAVE BEEN DRIVEN OUT OF THE LAND OF CANAAN BY THE JEWISH ROBBER, JOSHUA." Joshua drove them out, and they came here.

Not many leagues from here is a tribe of Jews whose ancestors fled thither after an unsuccessful revolt against King David, and these their descendants are still under a ban and keep to themselves.
Tangier has been mentioned in history for three thousand years.

And it was a town, though a queer one, when Hercules, clad in his lion skin, landed here, four thousand years ago.

In these streets he met Anitus, the king of the country, and brained him with his club, which was the fashion among gentlemen in those days.