What is the author's style in the novel, The Moor's Account?

While written in English, the book uses a great deal of Spanish words along with Native American and Moroccan titles. Mustafa makes frequent references to Muslim phrases as well. Mustafa will rarely translate the phrases, which makes sense given the book is supposed to be his memoir. He does provide context clues, so the reader can understand exactly what each title means. Mustafa frequently shows his inexperience during the expedition with the words that he uses. For example, early on the expedition runs across alligators, but nobody refers to them as that since they’ve never met them before. Instead, Mustafa describes them as giant green scaly monsters.