TRAVELS IN BARBARY. 
into paradise ; upon which he was immediately 
suspended over the bulwark. 
The English were now doomed to meet all the 
horrors of Moorish slavery. They were carried 
in a galliot to attack a Greek vessel, which was 
known to be at the distance of £40 leagues. 
They were chained three and three to an oar, 
naked above the waist, while the master and 
boatswain stood, the one afore and the other 
abaft, with huge whips, which, *■* when their divel- 
" ish choler rose," they employed with or without 
reason. On returning, the captives were employ- 
ed to hew and carry stones for the building of a 
church. Three times a week they went to the 
distance of thirty miles to bring fire-wood to the 
city. They set out at seven at night, and arrived 
next morning at the same hour. The writer was 
surprised to see nothing like a wood, but " a stick 
" here and a stick there, about the bignesse of a 
" man's arme, growing in the sand." The party, 
however, began to pull up these twigs by the roots, 
and by taking " a little at one place and a little at 
" another," at length succeeded in loading their 
camels. 
The captives having succeeded in conveying in- 
telligence of their situation to their friends in 
England, Queen Elizabeth, on the 5th September 
1584, wrote to the Grand Signior, who sent in- 
structions to the Basha to liberate the men, and rs» 
