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which these lawless men could subordinate themselves to the will of one whom they recognised as a great leader. To obtain such recognition was no easy matter, and the manner in which this was done, by those who rose by sheer force of character to the summit of this remarkable hierarchy, has here been set forth.
E. HAMILTON CURREY.

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTORY 1

CHAPTER I
THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS 13

CHAPTER II
THE COMING OF THE CORSAIRS 28

CHAPTER III
URUJ BARBAROSSA 43

CHAPTER IV
THE DEATH OF URUJ BARBAROSSA 59

CHAPTER V
KHEYR-ED-DIN BARBAROSSA 75

CHAPTER VI
THE TAKING OF THE PE?ON D'ALGER; ANDREA DORIA 91

CHAPTER VII
THE APOTHEOSIS OF THE CORSAIR KING 107

CHAPTER VIII
THE RAID ON THE COAST OF ITALY; JULIA GONZAGA 123

CHAPTER IX
BARCELONA, MAY 1535; THE GATHERING OF THE CHRISTIAN HOSTS 139

CHAPTER X
THE FALL OF TUNIS AND THE FLIGHT OF BARBAROSSA 155

CHAPTER XI
ROXALANA AND THE MURDER OF IBRAHIM 172

CHAPTER XII
THE PREVESA CAMPAIGN; THE GATHERING OF THE FLEETS 189

CHAPTER XIII
THE BATTLE OF PREVESA 205

CHAPTER XIV
THE NAVY OF OARS. THE GALLEY, THE GALEASSE, AND THE NEF 221

CHAPTER XV
DRAGUT-REIS 238

CHAPTER XVI
DRAGUT-REIS 254

CHAPTER XVII
DRAGUT-REIS 269

CHAPTER XVIII
THE KNIGHTS OF ST. JOHN 286

CHAPTER XIX
DRAGUT-REIS 306

CHAPTER XX
THE SIEGE OF MALTA 324

CHAPTER XXI
ALI BASHA 344

CHAPTER XXII
LEPANTO 362
AUTHORITIES CONSULTED 383
LIST OF THE KINGS OF ENGLAND, FRANCE, SPAIN, SULTANS OF TURKEY, POPES OF ROME, AND GRAND MASTERS OF MALTA FROM 1492 TO 1580 385
DISTANCES IN SEA MILES ON THE COAST OF NORTHERN AFRICA 387
INDEX 389

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
I wish to record my cordial recognition of the kindness shown to me at Malta by Mr. Salvino Sant Manduca. The picture of the carrack opposite to page 300 was a gift from him. The galley of the Knights of Malta is a reproduction of a picture hanging in his house. I should also like to thank him for the time and trouble which he took on my behalf during my stay at Malta, and the keen interest he displayed in my subject.
R. HAMILTON CURREY.
KHEYR-ED-DIN BARBAROSSA--CORSAIR, ADMIRAL, AND KING Frontispiece FACING PAGE
URUJ AND KHEYR-ED-DIN BARBAROSSA 44
ANDREA DORIA, PRINCE OF ONEOLIA, ADMIRAL TO CHARLES V. 92
SOLIMAN THE MAGNIFICENT 110
THE EMPEROR CHARLES V 150
MULEY HASSAN KING OF TUNIS 162
GALEASSE UNDER SAIL 194
GALLEY UNDER OARS 222
BRIGANTINE CHASING FELUCCA 236
GOZON DE DIEU-DONNé SLAYING THE GREAT SERPENT OF RHODES 294
CARRACK IN WHICH THE KNIGHTS ARRIVED AT MALTA, 1530 300
JEAN PARISOT DE LA VALETTE, GRAND MASTER OF THE KNIGHTS OF MALTA, AT THE SIEGE OF THAT ISLAND BY THE TURKS IN 1565 324
DEATH OF DRAGUT AT THE SIEGE OF MALTA 340
A GALLEY OF THE KNIGHTS OF MALTA 354
DON JOHN OF AUSTRIA 362
SEBASTIAN VENIERO 364

INTRODUCTORY
In all the ages of which we have any record there have been men who gained a living by that practice of robbery on the high seas which we know by the name of Piracy. Perhaps the pirates best known to the English-speaking world are the buccaneers of the Spanish Main, who flourished exceedingly in the seventeenth century, and of whom many chronicles exist: principally owing to the labours of that John Esquemelin, a pirate of a literary turn of mind, who added the crime of authorship to the ill deeds of a sea-rover. The Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean in the preceding century did not raise up a chronicler from among themselves: for not much tincture of learning seems to have distinguished these desperate fighters and accomplished seamen, descendants of those Spanish Moslems who had, during the Middle Ages, lived in a land in which learning and culture had been held in the highest estimation. Driven from their homes, their civilisation crushed, their religion banned in that portion of Southern Spain in which they had dwelt for over seven centuries, cast upon the shores of Northern Africa, these men took to the sea and became the scourge of the Mediterranean. That which they did, the deeds which they accomplished, the terror which they inspired, the ruin and havoc which they wrought, have been set forth in the pages of this book.
It was the age of the galley, the oar-propelled vessel which moved independently of the wind in the fine-weather months of the great inland sea. Therefore to the dwellers on the coast the Sea-wolves were a perpetual menace; as, when booty was unobtainable at sea, they raided the towns and villages of their Christian foes. During all the period here dealt with no man's life, no woman's honour, was safe from these pirates within the area of their nefarious activities. They held the Mediterranean in fee, they levied toll on all who came within reach of their galleys and their scimitars. Places unknown to the geography of the sixteenth century became notorious in their day, and Christian wives and mothers learned to tremble at the very names of Algiers and Tunis. From these places the rovers issued to capture, to destroy, and to enslave: in Oran and Tlemcen, in Tenes, Shershell, Bougie, Jigelli, Bizerta, Sfax, Susa, Monastir, Jerbah, and Tripoli