In the meantime the City of _Algier_ took the Alarm, having in it at that time but Eight hundred _Turks_, and Six thousand _Moors_, poorspirited men, and unexercised in Martial affairs; besides it was at that time Fortifi'd onely with Walls, and had no Out-works: Insomuch that by reason of its weakness, and the great Forces of the Emperour, it could not in appearance escape taking. In fine, it was Attaqued with such Order, that the Army came up to the very Gates, where _the Chevalier de Sauignac_, a _Frenchman_ by Nation, made himself remarkable above all the rest, by the miracles of his Valour. For having repulsed the _Turks_, who having made a Sally at the Gate call'd _Babason_, and there desiring to enter along with them, when he saw that they shut the Gate upon him, he ran his Ponyard into the same, and left it sticking deep therein. They next fell to Battering the City by the Force of Cannon; which the Assailants so weakened, that in that great extremity the Defendants lost their Courage, and resolved to surrender. But as they were thus intending, there was a Witch of the Town, whom the History doth not name, which went to seek out _Assam Aga_, that Commanded within, and pray'd him to make it good yet nine Days longer, with assurance, that within that time he should infallibly see _Algier_ delivered from that Siege, and the whole Army of the Enemy dispersed, so that _Christians_ should be as cheap as Birds. In a word, the thing did happen in the manner as foretold; for upon the Twenty first day of _October_ in the same Year, there fell a continual Rain upon the Land, and so furious a Storm at Sea, that one might have seen Ships hoisted into the Clouds, and in one instant again precipitated into the bottom of the Water: insomuch that that same dreadful Tempest was followed with the loss of fifteen Gallies, and above an hundred other Vessels; which was the cause why the Emperour, seeing his Army wasted by the bad Weather, pursued by Famine, occasioned by wrack of his Ships, in which was the greatest part of his Victuals and Ammunition, he was constrain'd to raise the Siege, and set Sail for _Sicily_, whither he Retreated with the miserable Reliques of his Fleet. In the mean time that Witch being acknowledged the Deliverer of _Algier_, was richly remunerated, and the Credit of her Charms authorized. So that ever since Witchcraft hath been very freely tolerated; of which the Chief of the Town, and even those who are esteem'd to be of greatest Sanctity among them, such as are the Marabou's, a Religious Order of their Sect, do for the most part make Profession of it, under a goodly Pretext of certain Revelations which they say they have had from their Prophet _Mahomet_.