text:  "No Moslem general had ever penetrated as far as that city which is in an inaccessible position in the most remote part of Galicia and is a sanctuary regarded by the Christians with veneration equal to that which the Moslems entertain for the Kaaba "--but Al-mansur supplied with provisions from a fleet which accompanied his march along the coast of Portugal forced his way through the Galician defiles and occupied the holy city without opposition--all the inhabitants having fled according to Ibn Hayyan with the exception of an old monk who tended the tomb