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the French Government, 308--A reign of terror, 309.

INDEX. 311

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
PAGE
ALGIERS, 1700 Frontispiece
GALLEON OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY 5
CARAVEL OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY 11
THE BARBARY PENINSULA 15
A MAP OF THE KINGDOMS OF BARBARY 17
TUNIS IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY 33
GALLEY OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY 37
J[=I]JIL, 1664 41
ALGIERS IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY 47
OBSERVATION WITH THE CROSSBOW 55
AN ADMIRAL'S GALLEY 63
GALLEASSE 69
ANDREA DORIA 79
TUNIS, 1566 87
COMPASS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY 99
OBSERVATION WITH THE ASTROLABE 104

GALLEY AT ANCHOR 107
SIEGE OF ALGIERS, 1541 115
CASTLE OF JERBA 125
SIEGE OF "AFRICA," 1390 129
GREEK FIRE 131
MEDIEVAL FIREARMS 132
MEDIEVAL PROJECTILES 132
SKETCH OF THE PORT OF MALTA IN 1565 152, 153
ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN A SPANISH GALLEON AND A
DUTCH SHIP 165
ARABIC ASTROLABE (TWO POSITIONS) 170, 171
TUNIS IN 1573 183
SAL[=E] IN 1637 189
FIGHT OF THE "MARY ROSE" WITH ALGERINE PIRATES, 1669
197
GALLEY RUNNING BEFORE THE WIND 203
STAGES IN BUILDING A GALLEY 207
PLAN AND SECTIONS OF A GALLEY 209
HOLD OF A GALLEY 211
GALLEASSE OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 227
ANCHOR 232

TORMENTS OF THE SLAVES 237
TORMENTS OF THE SLAVES 239
FATHERS OF THE REDEMPTION 249
TRIPOLI 281
[*.*] These illustrations are chiefly reproduced from La Sphère des
deux Mondes, composée en François, par Darinel pasteur des Amadis,
Anvers, 1555; Furttenbach's Architectura Navalis, 1629; Dan's Histoire
de Barbarie, 1637; Ogilby's Africa, 1670; Adm. Jurien de la Gravière's
Derniers Jours de la Marine à Rames; and the maps [63842. (3.)--S. 9.
9. (39).--S. 10. 2.--64162. (2.)--64043. (1.)] in the British Museum.

LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL AUTHORITIES CONSULTED.
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INTRODUCTION.

THE BARBARY CORSAIRS.

I.
THE REVENGE OF THE MOORS.
For more than three centuries the trading nations of Europe were
suffered to pursue their commerce or forced to abandon their gains at
the bidding of pirates. From the days when Barbarossa defied the whole
strength of the Emperor Charles V., to the early part of the present
century, when prizes were taken by Algerine rovers under the guns, so
to say, of all the fleets of Europe, the Corsairs were masters of the
narrow seas, and dictated their own terms to all comers. Nothing but
the creation of the large standing navies of the present age crippled
them; nothing less than the conquest of their too convenient coasts
could have thoroughly suppressed them. During those three centuries
they levied blackmail upon all who had any trading interest in the
Mediterranean. The Venetians, Genoese, Pisans in older days; the
English, French, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, and American Governments
in modern times, purchased security by the payment of a regular tribute,