Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ... ODONNELL AND THE ENVOYS. 281 Headquarters Camp, West Of Tetuan, March 26. I Have been writing by scraps and amid many interruptions, and since the above was penned headquarters have again changed their camp to the old place outside the Puerta de la Eeyna, the eastern gate of Tetuan. I resume my narrative of recent events. At two P.m. on the afternoon of Saturday the 24th, two envoys from Muley Abbas presented themselves at the Spanish headquarters of Guad el Eas. They were the same who had often before visited us--the Governors of Tangier and the Eiff. The Prince, they said, was most desirous of a conference with O'Donnell. The General was little disposed to comply with the request. He apprehended that such an interview was not likely to lead to any more satisfactory result than the one that had taken place just a month before, on the 23d of February. He considered it unworthy of Muley Abbas, as the Emperor's brother and the Generalissimo of the Moorish forces, and of himself as the representative of Spain, to waste time in frivolous conversations. If the proposed meeting were for the purpose of bargaining about conditions, he declined it The envoys were very urgent. "I have halted here to-day," said O'Donnell at last, "to send my wounded to Tetuan and to get up ammunition. Since you press so much for an interview, this is what I will do. To-morrow, at half-past four in the morning, the diana will sound and the soldiers will get their coffee. I will wait for the Prince until six; that hour struck, I march." The envoys pressed for half an hour longer; "Wait till half-past six," they said. Why were they so anxious for so trifling a prolongation? Muley Abbas, they replied (and the answer revealed a strange and unpleasant state of things), ...
