52. He burnt the villages and poisoned the springs (Priscus,
p. 42 [p. 156, ed. Bonn]). Dubos (Hist. Critique, tom. i. p.
475) observes that the magazines which the Moors buried in
the earth might escape his destructive search. Two or three
hundred pits are sometimes dug in the same place, and each
pit consains at least four hundred bushels of corn. Shaw's
Travels, p. 139.