The Story of the Barbary Corsairs

PART I.

_THE CORSAIR ADMIRALS._

III.

UR[=U]J BARBAROSSA.

1504-1515.

The island of Lesbos has given many gifts to the world--Lesbian wine and Lesbian verse, the seven-stringed lyre, and the poems of Sappho; but of all its products the latest was assuredly the most questionable, for the last great Lesbians were the brothers Barbarossa.

When Sultan Mohamme...