II.

THE LAND OF THE CORSAIRS. 14-27

The Barbary Peninsula, 14--Command of the narrow seas, 15--Barbary ports and havens, 16--Character of the country, 20--North-African dynasties, 21--Relations between the rulers of Barbary and the Christian States, 22--Piracy discountenanced, 24--Christian Corsairs, 25--Growth of sea-roving, 26--The coming of the Turks, 27.

_PART I._

THE CORSAIR ADMIRALS.