Two weeks later, the renegade purchased a ship, and promptly the captive sought a way to apprise Zoraida of their progress. At the moment of departure, Zoraida's father made such an outcry when he saw his daughter flee that the Christians were forced to capture him and some of his servants and imprison them onboard the ship. At a convenient inlet, Zoraida's grieving father and the other Moors were set ashore, while a favoring wind bore the escapees out of earshot of the father's curses and imprecations. Captured by pirates, despoiled of all their possessions, the prisoners finally landed in a small boat at the coast of Spain. The captive concludes his tale by telling how cheerfully Zoraida endured the sufferings of the journey. He pities his lovely fiancée, who faces a bleak future attached to a man without any means.
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