But we may at least concede that, no matter how infamous were the Barbarossas, Dragut, and Ali, they proved that in them dwelt one rare and supreme quality, which, in all the ages, has covered a multitude of sins. At a time when every one was a warrior and the whole world was an armed camp, men sought great captains in whose following to serve. Among the Moslems of Northern Africa, in ordered succession, there rose to the surface “veritable men of the sea,” in the wake of whose galleys ravened the Sea-wolves. When we consider how undisciplined and how stupidly violent these pirates were by nature, and how they were welded into a homogeneous whole by those of whom we speak, we are forced to the conclusion that seldom, in all the ages, have abler captains arisen to take fortune at the flood, to dominate the minds and the bodies of a vast host, to prove that they were, in deed and in truth, supreme as leaders of men. AUTHORITIES CONSULTED Sailing Ships and their Story. E. Keble Chatterton. Barbary Corsairs: Story of the Nations. Stanley Lane Poole. Compleat History of the Present Seat of War in Africa between Spaniards and Algerines. 1632. Joseph Morgan. History of Philip II. William Hickling Prescott. History of Charles V. Robertson. Histoire de Barberousse. Richer. Vie des plus célèbres marins. Richer. Histoire de Barberousse. Sander Rang et Ferdinand Denis. Doria et Barberousse. Les derniers jours de la Marine aux Rames. Admiral Jurien de la Gravière. Histoire de Barbarie et ses corsaires. Pierre d’An. Paris, 1637. Histoire d’Alger. Laugier de Tassy. Messire Pierre de Bourdeille Seigneur de Brantôme. Vie des hommes illustres et grands capitaines etrangers de son temps. 1594. Histoires de les Chevaliers de Malte. Mons l’Abbé de Vertot. Paris, 1726. Histoire de Venise. P. Daru. Topografia e Historia general de Argel El Señor Don Diego de Haedo. Reverendissimo Arcobispo de Palermo. Presidente y Capitan-General del Reyno de Sicilia por el Rey Felipe Segundo. Nuestro señor. Valladolid, 1612. Descripcion general de Africa. Don Luys de Marmol Caravajal. Granada, 1573. Historia de Carlos Quinto. El Maestro Don Fray Prudencio de Sandoval, Obispo de Pampluna. 1612. El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha. Cervantes. Arte de Navegar. Martin Cortes. Diálogos del arte militar. Bernardino de Escalante. Seville, 1583. Historia del combate naval de Lepanto. Cayetano Rosell. Epitaphia joco-seria. Francisco Swertius. 1623. La Guerra dei pirati e la marina Pontifica dal 1500 al 1560. Padre Alberto Guglielmotti. Storia della sacra religione et illustrissima milizia de San Giovanii Gerosolimitano. Jacopo Bosio. Lo Assedio di Malta, 18 Maggio-8, Settembre, 1565. Conte Carlo, Sanminiatelli, Zabarella, Colonello. LIST OF THE KINGS OF ENGLAND, FRANCE, SPAIN, SULTANS OF TURKEY, POPES OF ROME, AND GRAND MASTERS OF MALTA, BETWEEN THE DATES 1492–1580, THE PERIOD COVERED IN THIS BOOK. ENGLAND FRANCE