Geographical description — The Aboriginal Maurii — Barbary a Roman Province — The conquest by the Moslem Sulhama — The inhabitants and population at the present day Tangier as an English crown-colony — The Caliphate of Cordova — Death of King Roderic — Christian captives released by an English Embassy — The King of the Algarves — Mulai Ismael — Mulai Hassan — The Pirates of the Herculean Straits — French and Spanish Wars — The efforts of England to avert a catastrophe in Morocco.