{232} Cordova was taken on October 1, 1836. {234} “Look you, what men they were!” {235a} ‘The king has come, the king has come, and disembarked at Belem.’—_Miguelite song_. {235b} Charles V., or _Carlos Quinto_, is the title all too meekly accorded even in Spain to their king Charles I., fifth only of German Karls on the imperial throne, the Holy Roman Emperor. If Charles himself was not unpopular in Spain, even though he kept his mother Joanna, the legitimate queen, under lock and key, that he might reign as Charles the _First_ in Spain, his Germans and his Germanism were devoutly hated. The next Carlos who reigned in Spain, correctly styled the _Second_, was nearly a fool, but Charles III. was the best and most enlightened of the sovereigns of Spain until the days of Alfonso XII. Charles IV. abdicated under pressure of Napoleon in 1808, and then Don Carlos the Pretender naturally assumed the style and title of Charles the _Fifth_. {236a} See Introduction. {236b} The Genoese was presumably referring to the sister-in-law of Don Carlos, called _La Beira_. See Ford, _Handbook of Spain_, 1st edit., p. 822. {239} This is not strictly accurate. The Mezquita, as designed by Abdur Rahmán I. in 786, contained about 1200 pillars; when the mosque was enlarged by Almanzor at the end of the tenth century, the number was doubtless increased. Yet at the present day more than nine hundred are still standing in the building, which ranks _second_ as regards area among the churches of Christendom, and in historic interest is surpassed only by the Mosque of Agia Sofia at Constantinople (see Burke’s _History of Spain_, vol. i. pp. 130–133). {240a} Morocco. {240b} The Abencerrages were a family, or perhaps a faction, that held a prominent position in the Moorish kingdom of Granada for some time before its fall in 1492. The name is said to be derived from Yusuf ben Cerrág, the head or leader of the family in the time of Mohammed VII., but nothing is known with any certainty of their origin. In the _Guerras civiles de Granada_ of Gines Perez de Hita, the feuds of the Abencerrages with the rival family of the Zegris is an important incident, and Chateaubriand’s _Les Aventures du dernier Abencerages_ is founded upon Hita’s work. {241a} A _haji_ is a man who has made the _haj_ or pilgrimage to Mecca. As a title it is prefixed to the name. The Levantine Greeks who have made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem are also accustomed to use the same title, and their “Haji Michaeli” or “Haji Yanco” is as common a mode of address as “Haji Ali.” “Haji Stavros” in About’s _Roi des Montagnes_ may be happily remembered. {241b} The great city of Negroland is, I presume, Khartoum, capital of the Soudan, known to our fathers as _Nigritia_. {242a} Philip II., eldest son of Carlos I. of Spain (the Emperor Charles V.), married Mary of England the 25th of July, 1555.