features of Mohammed, and the fate of the cadi seemed to tremble in the balance; but it was for a moment only; for the habitual love of justice instantly recovered its sway in the heart of the Calif. Allah kerim! God is great,' said the Calif; thou hast done well, Aben Humeya; let the woman of Alferghi receive restitution of her lands, and the royal pavilion be joined therewith, that Mohammed's justice may be proclaimed from the rising to the setting sun!'

The Gate of Judgment, the wise and good prince who dealt out justice to his people under its shadow, and the applauding crowds who heard the sentence he pronounced against himself, had disappeared. I fancied myself in a vast square by the side of a rapid river, but in the heart of a populous city, the square indeed extending by means of arches over the bed of the river itself. Lofty houses rose on all sides, with balconied windows, which gradually became filled with spectators, the gay, the brilliant, and the beautiful. It was the plaza of the Bivarrambla, and the golden sands of the Darro were beneath my feet. Boabdeli was about to give a fiesta de toros in honor of his marriage with the lovely Alfayma, and, as the preparation proceeded, all Granada poured into the vast square, buoyant with anticipations of the favorite spectacle. At length a large body of soldiers, clad entirely in white, excepting their

scarlet turbans and a broad scarlet scarf around the waist, and armed only with halberds, marched into the plaza, and were so distributed as to compose a hollow square facing inwards upon the centre of the Bivarrambla. After them, announced by a loud clash of trumpets and tambours, came a squadron of lancers, with uniform precisely corresponding to that of the halberdiers, and all mounted on white barbs with harness of scarlet morocco and silk housings of the same color.-They rode into the throng in close columns, and making the round of the square drove out the populace within it, and then formed in line behind the halberdiers. one extremity of the square was a rich open pavilion, where Boabdeli sat with his Queen, surrounded by the chiefs of the Zegris, Abencerrages, Gomeles, and other favored tribes of his kingdom, to direct the course of the festival. At the opposite extremity of the square was another pavilion, where a large band of musicians were placed, and beneath which were confined the bulls designed for the combat. All the balconies overlooking the square were filled with a dense mass of spectators, as was the entire area of the plaza itself outside of the troops.

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Every thing being in readiness, a cavalier rode into the hollow square, covered with jewels, and distinguished by the green hue of his turban, which marked his descent from the family of the Prophet, but not less distinguished by the stern

haughty countenance, which all knew for that of Reduan, the fierce Emir of Fezzan, who came to Granada to gratify his hatred of the Castilian name by warring upon the Christian nobles of Murcia and Andalusia. He wore nothing of a defensive nature, and held in his hand merely a lance formed of a short slender reed, seemingly altogether disproportioned to its heavy iron barb. His horse, a beautiful courser from the desert, stood pawing the earth with impatience. At a blast of the trumpets, a wild bull, previously goaded in his cage by the attendants to excite his fury, came tossing into the arena, and, after a furious glance at the strange objects around him, rushed with blind rage upon Reduan. But the practised cavalier was prepared for the event. Watching his moment as the frantic animal bounded towards him, just when the long horns seemed about to be dashed into the horse's flank, Reduan reined gently aside, at the same time that he plunged his lance into the neck of the bull, where it snapped off like a twig, leaving the polished steel buried in the spine; and the bull dropped down dead in the instant as if struck by a flash of lightning. Four stout mules, yoked abreast, with plumes and festoons of ribbons on their heads, and strings of bells around their necks, were quickly driven into the arena, to drag out the prostrate bull amid the glad shouts of the cheering multitude.

Another bull then burst into the arena, but

suddenly pausing as he saw the myriads of eyes fixed upon him, and the horse and rider just before him, he checked in his career amazed, and refused to advance upon Reduan, but remained bellowing and tossing up the earth with his feet.-Impatient for the stroke, Reduan hazarded the dangerous feat of advancing himself; but instead of rushing forward to meet the shock, the terrified bull continued to back towards the line of halberds, which guarded the side of the arena. The indignant populace, in scorn of the recreant bull, now called loudly for dogs to be let in upon him as unworthy to combat with men; and at a signal from Boabdeli two stout mastiffs from the Alpujarras were set upon him, and dashed in silence at his head and neck. The enraged bull, unable to retreat from these pertinacious assailants, sought to gore them with his horns or tread upon them with his fore feet, and tossed them again and again in the air. At length the noble dogs succeeded in fastening each upon one of his ears, and thus pinned his head to the ground. A few convulsive struggles on his part ended the contest, and one of the attendants came in and dispatched him with a knife, and he was dragged out like his predecessor.

Another bull now entered the arena, but, unlike the last, came forward tearing up the earth and lashing himself into a foam of fury, and as he espied Reduan, rushed to the encounter. It was a bull from the royal pastures in the valley of Zafar

raya, with small legs, thick short neck and high flanks, wild and savage as a tiger of the East. Reduan had received a fresh lance; and when the bull came up, he struck the spear deep into the animal's neck, it is true, as before; but as the bull came bounding and tossing on, the spear head glanced from the bone and sunk in the thick flesh of the neck. Maddened, but not impeded, by the blow, the animal pushed onward still, and striking his horns into Reduan's horse, dashed horse and rider to the ground together. Nothing but the senseless fury of the bull, which spent itself in goring and tearing the fallen horse, saved the life of Reduan, by enabling the attendants to run in and drag him out from beneath his horse, leaving the bull undisputed master of the field. When the latter found that the horse no longer resisted him, he seemed to disdain to triumph over a prostrate foe, and suffered the lacerated and bleeding steed to rise and drag himself undisturbed out of the arena.

A pause now ensued in the sports, as no one seemed anxious to enter the lists with the powerful animal, who, although severely wounded, did not seem to have sustained any diminution of his vigor, and infuriate with the smart of the lance-head working in his flesh, ran bellowing around the square, madly butting at the halberds of the guards, and striving to leap over their serried files. At length a masked cavalier rode into the Bivarrambla, mounted on a slight-made Spanish jennet, and