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Prologue-Chapter 5: "The Story of the March"

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Lalami, Laila. The Moor’s Account. Pantheon Books, 2014. E-book.

• The untitled prologue of the novel begins on page 3.

• A man named Mustafa states that he is going to relate a true account of everything that happened during his time in the place he refers to as “the Land of the Indians” (3).

• He adds that he carries with him none of the biases that “Andrés Dorantes de Carranza, Alonso del Castillo Maldonado, and especially Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca” had when they gave their official account in “what they called the Joint Report, to the Audiencia of Santo Domingo” (3).

• Mustafa then adds a note about the reader’s ability to trust him versus the noblemen who gave the official account, saying, “I, who is neither beholden to Castilian...

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