the very place for his purpose--a spot easy to defend,
perched on inaccessible rocks, yet furnished with a good harbour,
where the losses of recent years might be repaired. This was J[=i]jil,
some sixty miles to the east of Buj[=e]ya; whose sturdy inhabitants
owed allegiance to no Sultan, but were proud to welcome so renowned,
although now so unfortunate, a warrior as Barbarossa. So at J[=i]jil
Ur[=u]j dwelt, and cultivated the good-will of the people with spoils
of corn and goods from his cruisers, till those "indomitable African
mountaineers," who had never owned a superior, chose him by
acclamation their king.

FOOTNOTES:

[5] The differences between the Turkish authority, H[=a]jji Khal[=i]fa,
who wrote in the middle of the seventeenth century and used "Memoirs"
partly inspired by Kheyr-ed-d[=i]n himself, and the two Spanish
chroniclers, Haedo and Marmol, in their narratives of the early feats
and experiences of Barbarossa and his brothers, are irreconcilable in
details, though the general purport is similar. Von Hammer naturally
follows H[=a]jji Khal[=i]fa, and modern writers, like Adm. Jurien de la
Graviere, take the same course. For the period of his life when
Kheyr-ed-d[=i]n was at Constantinople the Turkish writer may be
reasonably preferred; but on all matters concerning the Barbary coast
the Abbot Diego de Haedo, who lived many years in Algiers in the
sixteenth century, was personally acquainted with many of the servants
and followers of Kheyr-ed-d[=i]n (who died in 1546), and published his
_Topographia e historia de Argel_ in 1612, is undoubtedly the best
informed and most trustworthy authority.

[6] Quoted by Morgan, _Hist. of Algiers_, 225.

[7] It is possible that Barba-rossa is but a European corruption of
Baba Ur[=u]j, "Father Ur[=u]j," as his men called him. At all events
Ur[=u]j is the real Barbarossa, though modern writers generally give
the name to his younger brother Kheyr-ed-d[=i]n, who was only called
Barbarossa on account of his kinship to the original.

IV.

THE TAKING OF ALGIERS.

1516-1518.

The new Sultan of J[=i]jil was now called to a much more serious
enterprize than heading his truculent highlanders against a
neighbouring tribe--though it must be admitted that he was always in
his element when fisticuffs were in request. An appeal had come from
Algiers. The Moors there had endured for seven years the embargo of
the Spaniards; they had seen their _fregatas_ rotting befor