Weep not for me. My present
reverse is but the inevitable course of fate. I have committed acts
which render pardon hopeless. I must await my punishment."
His presentiment was correct. The vengeance of Sidi Abu Said was
only to be satisfied by the blood of his rival, and the unfortunate
Ahmed was beheaded at Malaga, in the month Jumadi, in the year 559
of the Hegira (April, 1164). When the news was brought to the
fickle-hearted Hafsah, she was struck with sorrow and remorse, and put
on mourning; recalling his warning words, and reproaching herself with
being the cause of his death.
Of the after fortunes of Hafsah I have no further trace than that
she died in Morocco, in 1184, outliving both her lovers, for Sidi
Abu Said died in Morocco of the plague in 1175. A memorial of his
residence in Granada remained in a palace which he built on the
banks of the Xenil. The garden of Maumal, the scene of the early lives
of Ahmed and Hafsah, is no longer in existence. Its site may be
found by the antiquary in poetical research.
The authorities for the foregoing: Alcantara, Hist. Granada. Al
Makkari, Hist. Mohamed. Dynasties in Spain. Notes and illustrations of
the same by Gayangos. Ibnu Al Kahttib, Biograph. Dic., cited by
Gayangos. Conde, Hist. Dom. Arab.
An Expedition in Quest of a Diploma.
ONE OF the most important occurrences in the domestic life of the
Alhambra, was the departure of Manuel, the nephew of Dona Antonia, for
Malaga, to stand examination as a physician.
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