[Footnote 189: I much regret our loss, or my ignorance, of
two Arabic works of the viiith century, a Life of Musa, and
a poem on the exploits of Tarik. Of these authentic pieces,
the former was composed by a grandson of Musa, who had
escaped from the massacre of his kindred; the latter, by the
vizier of the first Abdalrahman, caliph of Spain, who might
have conversed with some of the veterans of the conqueror,
(Bibliot. Arabico-Hispana, tom. ii. p. 36, 139.)]