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 million francs a year, rich presents every ten years, and a large amount of cash paid down. Spain's temporary peace with the pirate power cost her five million dollars. England paid almost three hundred thousand dollars every year. She was, it is true, strong enough to have put down the pirates, but apparently she preferred to support them as destroyers of the commerce of her rival nations, and paid a large, shameful tribute in order to keep the price of immunity above the reach of the lesser states of Europe.

WHITEWASH AND SUNSHINE

The following clause reads strangely in the treaty with the mighty British nation: "Liberty is granted to the Algerines to search British vessels and to take out all persons and