compelled the Corsairs to seek shelter under the guns of
the Turkish fortress of Valona in Albania. In spite of the peace then
subsisting between Venice and the Porte, Capello attacked, and the
fortress naturally defended, the refugees. The Corsairs were obliged
to land, and then Capello, carried away by his zeal, and in
contravention of his orders, sent in his galleots and, after a sharp
struggle, towed away the whole Barbary squadron, leaving 'Ali and his
unlucky followers amazed upon the beach. For this bold stroke Capello
was severely reprimanded by the Senate, and the Porte was consoled for
the breach of treaty by a _douceur_ of five hundred thousand ducats:
but meanwhile the better part of the Algerine galley-fleet had ceased
to exist, and owners and captains were bankrupt. It was small
consolation that in the same summer an expedition to the north,
piloted by a renegade from Iceland, brought back eight hundred of his
unfortunate countrymen to exchange the cold of their native land for
the bagnios of Algiers.

In 1641, however, the Corsairs had recovered from their losses, and
'Ali Pichinin could boast a fleet of at least sixty-five vessels, as
we have it on the authority of Emanuel d'Aranda, who was his slave at
the time. The wealth and power of the General of the Galleys were then
at their zenith. Six hundred slaves were nightly locked up in his
prison, which afterwards was known as the Khan of 'Ali Pichinin, and
in Morgan's time was noted for its grape vines, which covered the
walls and fringed the windows with the luscious fruit up to the top
storey. The son of a renegade himself, he liked not that his followers
should turn Turk upon his hands; which "was but picking his pocket of
so much money to give a disciple to Mohammed, for whom he was remarked
to have no extraordinary veneration. He had actually cudgelled a
Frenchmen out of the name of Mustafa (which he had assumed with a
Turkish dress) into that of John, which he would fain have renounced.
His farms and garden-houses were also under the directions of his own
Christians. I have heard much discourse of an entertainment he once
made, at his garden, for all the chief Armadores and Corsairs, at
which the Pasha was also a guest, but found his own victuals, as
fearing some foul play; nothing of which is ill taken among the Turks.
All was dressed at town in the general's own kitchen, and passed
along from hand to hand by his slaves up to the garden-house, abov