[288] This was Mr. John Brackenbury.
[292a] The great Danish poet, born in 1779, died 1850; see ante, note, vol. i. p. 29.
[292b] October 21, 1805.
[293a] It is an American in our own day, Captain Mahan, U.S.N., who has called attention, in his masterly influence of Sea Power upon History, to the transcendent importance of the battle of Trafalgar, hardly realized by the most patriotic Englishman, who had well-nigh forgotten Trafalgar in celebrating the more attractive glories of Waterloo.
[293b] Storm of east wind; wind from the Levant.
[293c] I.e. Kafirs, the Arabic term of reproach, signifying an unbeliever; one who is not a Moslem!
[294] The title formally granted to this Alonzo Perez de Guzman, under the sign-manual of King Sancho the Bravo, was that of “The Good.” His son was not crucified, but stabbed to death by the Infante Don John, with the knife that had been flung over the battlements of the city by the poor lad’s father, a.d. 1294 (see Documentos Ineditos para la Historia de España, tom. xxxix. pp. 1–397).
[295] Rather of Muza, the commander-in-chief of the army that conquered Gothic Spain in 711. Tarifa similarly perpetuates the memory of one of his lieutenants, Tárif; and Gibraltar is Gibil Tarik, after Tarik, his second in command (see Burke’s History of Spain, vol. i. pp. 110–120).
[296a] The hill of the baboons.
[296b] Rather, “The Island;” Al Jezirah.