THE JESUS AT TRIPOLI. 
requisite ceremonies were performed for his com- 
plete abjuration of the Christian faith. Instead, 
however, of being dismissed, as he expected, the 
king only congratulated him on the felicity he en- 
joyed, of dying in the true faith, and going direct 
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 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 ahaftf 
with huge whips, which, when their devilish 
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 load- 
ing their camels. 
