The Story of the Barbary Corsairs
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Six hundred slaves were nightly locked up in hisprison, which afterwards was known as the Khan of 'Ali Pichinin, andin Morgan's time was noted for its grape vines, which covered thewalls and fringed the windows with the luscious fruit up to the topstorey. The son of a renegade himself, he liked not that his followersshould turn Turk upon his hands; which "was but picking his pocket ofso much money to give a disciple to Mohammed, for whom he was remarkedto have no extraordinary veneration. He ha...d actually cudgelled aFrenchmen out of the name of Mustafa (which he had assumed with aTurkish dress) into that of John, which he would fain have renounced. His farms and garden-houses were also under the directions of his ownChristians. I have heard much discourse of an entertainment he oncemade, at his garden, for all the chief Armadores and Corsairs, atwhich the Pasha was also a guest, but found his own victuals, asfearing some foul play; nothing of which is ill taken among the Turks. All was dressed at town in the general's own kitchen, and passedalong from hand to hand by his slaves up to the garden-house, abovetwo miles' distant, where as much of the victuals as got safe thitherarrived smoking hot, as they tell the story.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Six hundred slaves were nightly locked up in hisprison, which afterwards was known as the Khan of 'Ali Pichinin, andin Morgan's time was noted for its grape vines, which covered thewalls and fringed the windows with the luscious fruit up to the topstorey. The son of a renegade himself, he liked not that his followersshould turn Turk upon his hands; which "was but picking his pocket ofso much money to give a disciple to Mohammed, for whom he was remarkedto have no extraordinary veneration. He ha...d actually cudgelled aFrenchmen out of the name of Mustafa (which he had assumed with aTurkish dress) into that of John, which he would fain have renounced. His farms and garden-houses were also under the directions of his ownChristians. I have heard much discourse of an entertainment he oncemade, at his garden, for all the chief Armadores and Corsairs, atwhich the Pasha was also a guest, but found his own victuals, asfearing some foul play; nothing of which is ill taken among the Turks. All was dressed at town in the general's own kitchen, and passedalong from hand to hand by his slaves up to the garden-house, abovetwo miles' distant, where as much of the victuals as got safe thitherarrived smoking hot, as they tell the story.
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