Barbary : name originates from the Berbers, chief & oldest known inhabitants of the region, & for centuries stood for pirates who preyed upon Mediterranean shipping.
... than it takes my feet to carry me to the King's audience-room and my voice to number my wrongs. Let him choose between me, a man and one made in God's image, and this brutish amalgam of gorilla and Barbary ape whom he calls his Vizier. SUNJAR You are not alone in your wrongs; all Bassora and half the Court complain of his tyrannies. MURAD And as if all were too little for his heavy-handed ...
... unknown antiquity of great national cultures where now the savage or the semi-savage swarm uncreative and unreflecting,—such as may be argued from the ruins of Mashonaland or the state of mediaeval Barbary after the ravages of Moor and Vandal or even the fate which overtook for almost a millennium the magnificent structure of Graeco-Roman culture and threatened even to blot out its remnants and ruins ...
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