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 from political slavery, will also emancipate it from its moral effects.

On his arrival in the Archipelago, Captain Beaufort found that a regularly organized system of absolute and general piracy existed in the district of Maina, the southern province of the Morea. The number of their vessels, or armed rowboats, fluctuated between 20 and 30; they lurked behind the different head-lands and innumerable rocks of the Archipelago. All flags were equally their prey, and the life or death of the captured crew was merely a question of convenience. A Turkish prize was the only exception to this rule; for, as they expected no mercy if taken by the Turks, they rarely gave them quarter. The following instance of their barbarity is related by Captain Beaufort:

