e Spanish yoke. They went gladly, defeated the Spaniards,
and then the elder Barbarossa proclaimed himself king, after beheading
Hassan, another famous corsair, killing the king, and committing fearful
excesses on the inhabitants. This villain was slain by the men of an
expedition sent against the Algerines by Charles the Fifth, but the
Turks made his brother Hayradin king in his stead. In 1518 Hayradin
Barbarossa sought recognition by the Sultan of Turkey. He was made
Pasha, and from that time till now Algiers has remained a nominal
dependency of Turkey;--a pest to the civilised world, and a disgrace to
humanity."

"Well, now," observed Ted Flaggan, knocking the ashes out of his pipe,
and refilling it; "there are more surprisin' things in the history of
this here world than I was aware of. It's my unwarnished opinion--"

The expression of the seaman's opinion was here cut short by the sudden
awakening of the elder Rimini, who immediately sat bolt upright and
stared at the stranger with eyes like those of an owl in sunshine.

Lucien hastened to explain, and to spread the food sent by Bacri before
his father.

Feeling sensations like those of a starved wolf, Francisco merely
smiled, nodded, and shook hands with the sailor, and then, seizing the
remains of the loaf and the pork,--"wild-boar," or "lion," pie,
commenced with infinite gusto to his unexpected meal.

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Note 1. This held true of the Kabyles until they were conquered,
disarmed, and completely subdued by the French, who now hold possession
of their land.

CHAPTER TWENTY TWO.

SHOWS HOW THE PIRATES WERE WONT TO TREAT MEN OF NOTE.

When his hunger was appeased, Francisco Rimini turned to Ted Flaggan and
asked him, through Lucien, to go over again in detail the course of
action which Bacri advised him and his sons to adopt in order to effect
their escape out of the country. "For," said he with emphasis, "I'm
neither a lion nor a rabbit, and cannot therefore make up my mind to
spend the rest of my days in a hole."

We will spare the reader Mister Flaggan's repetition of the details
referred to, merely remarking that they embraced careful directions as
to when and where a boat would be found on the coast ready to carry them
out to sea, and that they contained many earnest cautions to be wary, as
nothing short of death by slow torture would be their fate if
recaptured--this b