Excerpt from Portugal and Its People: A HistoryThe splendid story of the Arabian conquest and domination of the Peninsula, for instance, belonging to Portugal as well as to Spain, it was only possible to tell in the most meagre fashion, in order to preserve some degree of proportion in the whole chronicle. The author ventures to hold, let it be said by the way, that the redoubtable leader of the first Saracen invasion was not of African but of Arabian descent.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.