text: " "Would to God " piously subjoins Al-Makkari "that the Moslems had then extinguished at once the sparkles of a fire destined to consume their whole dominion in those parts! But they said--'What are thirty barbarians perched on a rock? they must inevitably die!'" The spark which contained the germ of the future independence of Spain was thus suffered to remain and spread while the swords of the Moslems were occupied in France; and its growth was further favoured by the anarchy and civil dissensions which broke out among the conquerors