Thirty thousand of the Barbarian youth were enlisted in the troops; and the pious labors of Musa, to inculcate the knowledge and practice of the Koran, accustomed the Africans to obey the apostle of God and the commander of the faithful.

In their climate and government, their diet and habitation, the wandering Moors resembled the Bedoweens of the desert.

With the religion they were proud to adopt the language, name, and origin, of Arabs: the blood of the strangers and natives was insensibly mingled; and from the Euphrates to the Atlantic, the same nation might seem to be diffused over the sandy plains of Asia and Africa.

Yet I will not deny that fifty thousand tents of pure Arabians might be transported over the Nile, and scattered through the Libyan desert: and I am not ignorant that five of the Moorish tribes still retain their _barbarous_ idiom, with the appellation and character of _white_ Africans.
V.In the progress of conquest from the north and south, the Goths and the Saracens encountered each other on the confines of Europe and Africa.

In the opinion of the latter, the difference of religion is a reasonable ground of enmity and warfare.
As early as the time of Othman, their piratical squadrons had ravaged the coast of Andalusia; nor had they forgotten the relief of Carthage by the Gothic succors.