THE EMPIRE OF ''THE TWO SHORES" 57 the good administration and defence of his kingdom, he thinks of nothing else than satisfying the cravings of his passions." Not long afterwards, when Yusuf had returned to Africa, his generals informed him that the whole of the fighting against the Christians was left to them, while the Kings of Andalusia remained sunk in pleasure and sloth. They asked for his instructions, and were ordered to conquer the Kings of Andalusia, and to appoint to every city or town as it fell into their power a governor from among the officers of Yusufs army. Town after town fell to the army of the Almoravides, till Seville itself was taken, and the King sent a prisoner into Africa, where he died in 1095.

Yusuf died in 1106. His son succeeded to the Sultanate of North Africa and Spain ; and the Almoravide dynasty continued to reign with a double court, one in Africa and one in Spain, the Sultan residing alternately in either until the African dominion was overthrown in 1 142, and the Spanish dominion three years later, in 1145. The last Almoravide sovereign of Africa and Spain was, according to Ibn Khaldun, executed in the presence of the Almohade conqueror in 1147. During the whole of this period, as under the dynasty of the Ommeyades, intercourse between Spain and Negroland was freely maintained.