ABSTRACT
When he had satisfied himself that the Almoravides had no intention of coming, the Cid returned to the palace gardens and gave orders for all the suburbs that had not been subdued to be sacked and the houses razed. The inhabitants fled to the city with such of their effects as they could carry, but there fell to the Christians large sums of money and quantities of corn and clothing that had been buried in the ruins. The city Moors, too, stole out to carry off the timber, and soon not a building remained around the walls except those within range of the defenders’ arrows, and even these were eventually burnt down during the night.
