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Directly after this, another corsair, Dschassar Bey, appeared upon the scene with a frigate and three small munition vessels.

•In front of the terminal and now serving as a traffic roundabout is the Corsair Obelisk (Obelisco a los Corsarios) - believed to be the world’s only monument in praise of privateers (see page 21).

A few streets back into the town from the passenger terminal and the Corsair Obelisk is the inevitable, quaint Old Market.

That she was taken captive, together with her mother, out of a vineyard, on the Coast of Circassia, by a Corsair of Hiram King of Tyre, and brought to Jerusalem.

We seven were taken Prisoners by an Algerine Corsair, after an Engagement in which seven and twenty more of us lay in Blood upon Deck.

Harry then opened his Arms to receive his Friend, while Ned leaped and catched at him, as the grapling Iron of a Corsair would catch at a Ship from which great Prize was expected, All the Family then, so highly as they had been obliged by our Hero and his Father, struggled who should be foremost in their Acknowledgments and Caresses.

I had fitted out a royal Ship of my own, not as a Corsair, but rather for Trade in the Mediterranean.

I would threaten like a corsair, though I would conquer with all the good-breeding of a Scipio.

In the days of idolatry and barbarism, the Sclavonic city of Julin was frequented and enriched by the Normans, who had prudently secured a free mart of purchase and exchange. [52] From this harbor, at the entrance of the Oder, the corsair, or merchant, sailed in forty-three days to the eastern shores of the Baltic, the most distant nations were intermingled, and the holy groves of Curland are said to have been decorated with Grecian and Spanish gold. [53] Between the sea and Novogorod an easy intercourse was discovered; in the summer, through a gulf, a lake, and a navigable river; in the winter season, over the hard and level surface of boundless snows.

The Captain of the Corsair was an Irish Renegado, and as soon as he was out of Danger, he sent for me into the Cabin, and ask'd me several Questions concerning our Ship, where she was bound, and who I was, (for he took me for more than a common Sailor, being I was not in a Sailor's Habit.) I told him my Story, as I have related in the foregoing Sheets.

And happy for me, had it been my Fate to have had a Wave for my Winding-sheet; for two Days after we were received on Board, a Corsair of Barbary met with us, and took us all Prisoners.

We pillag'd the Corsair, and found very good Booty.

We touch'd at the Canaries (or Fortunate Islands) to take in Fresh Water, and turn'd the Lading we had taken out of the Corsair into Money: And I shar'd it among the Sailors, reserving a fourth Part for my self and Owners, as I call'd 'em.

I embark'd for Genoa in a Dutch Vessel bound for that Place; but in the Dusk of the Evening, which succeeded the first Day of our Voyage, we were pursu'd by a Corsair of Tunis.

While we were endeavouring to find 'em out, it was a great Satisfaction [Page 23] to me to see the other Ship we saw under the Shore, get up with the Corsair, and engage her; they fought furiously about half an Hour, but at last overcame her; yet that Satisfaction was allay'd, by my being inform'd our Leaks cou'd not be found; and the Water gain'd upon us, notwithstanding they labour'd hard at the Pump.

The Captain came on Board us, and very civilly offer'd me a Cabbin of his Lieutenant's, who was kill'd in the Engagement with the Corsair.

The Captain of the Spaniard lost nineteen Men in this last Engagement, and thirty-five in the former, besides thirty wounded in both, so that his Complement was so very much lessen'd, that if it had not been for the Help of the Galley-Slaves out of the Corsair (who were most Spaniards) he cou'd not have work'd his Ship.

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