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24 the pyrating Account with only one mall Veel, but by the Prizes he took, he gain’d immene Riches, o that getting a great Number of large Ships, all the bold and diolute Fellows of thoe Ilands flock’d to him, and lited in his Service, for the Hopes of Booty; o that his Strength was increaed to a formidable Fleet: With thee he perform’d uch bold and adventurous Actions, that he became the Terror of the Seas. About this Time it happened that Selim Eutemi, King of Algiers, having refued to pay the accutomed Tribute to the Spaniards, was apprehenive of an Invaion from thence; wherefore he treated with Barbaroue, upon the Foot of an Ally, to come and ait him, and deliver him from paying this Tribute; Barbaroue readily came into it, and ailing to Algiers with a great Fleet, he put part of his Men on Shore, and having laid a Plot to urprize the City, he effected it with great Succes, and murder’d Selim in a Bath; oon after which, he was himelf crowned King of Algiers; after this he made War upon Abdilabde, King of Tunis, and overthrew him in Battle; he extended his Conquets on all Sides; and thus from a Thief became a mighty King: and tho’ he was at lat kill’d in Battle, yet he had o well etablihed himelf upon that Throne, that, dying without Iue, he left the Inheritance of the Kingdom to his Brother, another Pyrate.

I come now to peak of the Pyrates infeting the West-Indies, where they are more numerous than in any other Parts of the World, on everal Reaon:

First, Becaue there are o many uninhabited little Ilands and Keys, with Harbours convenient and ecure for cleaning their Veels, and abounding with what they often want, Proviion; I mean Water, Sea-Fowl, Turtle, Shell, and other Fih; where, if they carry in but trong Liquor, they Rh