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 THE NEW MOSQUE

OCCIDENT AND ORIENT

was this an idle threat. In 1631 they sacked the town of Baltimore in County Cork and carried off more than two hundred Irishmen. Ten years later, sixty men were taken from the shores of England near Penzance. The fishermen of Plymouth, Exeter, and Dartmouth for a long time after dared not to put to sea. It is even stated that the Algerine fleet on one occasion ravaged the shores of Iceland in the Arctic Sea. But we must not forget that in spite of the cowardice of the European governments in diplomatic dealings with this actual kingdom