The Greatest Story in the World, Period 2 by Horace G. Hutchinson

Both the name Saracen and the name Moor came to be used in a sense / much wider than their first significance. At first the Romans knew / as "Saraceni," a single tribe of Arabs living near Mount Sinai. / Later, the name Saracen was used by Europeans to mean any followers / of the religion of Mahomet. Moors, "Mauri" or "dark men," was a name / at first used only for a tribe that was also called Berbers, living / along the northern edge of the Sahara desert, in Africa. But they / were not of black skin, like the negroes, nor had they woolly hair. / Their complexion was darkened only by the sun's burning power, and / their hair was smooth. There were many of them in the forces that / invaded Spain and put an end to the Visigoths' kingdom there early in / the eighth century; and after a time all the Moslems, or Mahommedans, / in Spain came to be known as Moors.

[Sidenote: Mahomet]