CHAPTER IIL 
BARBARY. 
First Voyages to Morocco. — Voyage of the Jesus to Tripoli. — 
Captivity of Mouette. — Windhuss Journey — Shaw's Tra- 
vels. — Lempriere. — Recent accounts by Jackson, Keating, 
Ali Bey, Maegill, Blaquiere, and Tidly* 
Under the name of Barbary has been included, 
in modern times, the long tract of sea-coast, ex- 
tending from the western frontier of Egypt to the 
extremity of Morocco. The whole of this region 
was subdued by the Saracens during the first era of 
their power, and the Mahommedan faith, in its 
most bigoted form, has ever since been fully esta- 
blished throughout it. During the sixteenth and 
seventeenth centuries, they were truly formidable 
to the states of Europe, by their naval power and 
piratical disposition. It was chiefly from the 
wretched captives whom they dragged into bond- 
age, that any accounts of their internal constitu- 
tion was obtained. The narratives of these persons 
were, at the time, very numerous ; we shall only 
select a few which appear curious and authentic. 
The first English voyage to Barbary, of which 
there is any record, was performed in 1551. The 
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