CHAPTER III. 
BARBARY. 
First voyages to Morocco Voyage of the Jesus to Tripoli, — 
Captivity of Mouette. — Windhus's Journey.^Sha'ws Tra- 
vels. — Lempriere. — Recent accounts by Jachson, Keating, All 
Bey, Macgill, Blaquiere, a?id 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 bigotted form, has ever since been fully 
established throughout it. During the sixteenth 
and seventeenth centuries, the Barbarians 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 bondage, that any accounts of their 
internal constitution 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 
