But we may at least concede that, no matter how infamous were the Barbarossas, Dragut, and Ali, they proved that in them dwelt one rare and supreme quality, which, in all the ages, has covered a multitude of sins.  At a time when every one was a warrior and the whole world was an armed camp, men sought great captains in whose following to serve.  Among the Moslems of Northern Africa, in ordered succession, there rose to the surface “veritable men of the sea,” in the wake of whose galleys ravened the Sea-wolves.  When we consider how undisciplined and how stupidly violent these pirates were by nature, and how they were welded into a homogeneous whole by those of whom we speak, we are forced to the conclusion that seldom, in all the ages, have abler captains arisen to take fortune at the flood, to dominate the minds and the bodies of a vast host, to prove that they were, in deed and in truth, supreme as leaders of men.

AUTHORITIES CONSULTED

Sailing Ships and their Story.  E. Keble Chatterton.

Barbary Corsairs:  Story of the Nations.  Stanley Lane Poole.

Compleat History of the Present Seat of War in Africa between Spaniards
  and Algerines. 1632.  Joseph Morgan.

History of Philip II.  William Hickling Prescott.

History of Charles V. Robertson.

Histoire de Barberousse.  Richer.

Vie des plus celebres marins.  Richer.

Histoire de Barberousse.  Sander Rang et Ferdinand Denis.

Doria et Barberousse.  Les derniers jours de la Marine aux Rames.  Admiral
  Jurien de la Graviere.

Histoire de Barbarie et ses corsaires.  Pierre d’An.  Paris, 1637.

Histoire d’Alger.  Laugier de Tassy.

Messire Pierre de Bourdeille Seigneur de Brantome.  Vie des hommes
  illustres et grands capitaines etrangers de son temps. 1594.

Histoires de les Chevaliers de Malte.  Mons l’Abbe de Vertot.  Paris, 17S6.

Histoire de Venise.  P. Daru.

Topografia e Historia general de Argel El Senor Don Diego de Haedo.

Reverendissimo Arcobispo de Palermo.  Presidente y Capitan-General del
  Reyno de Sicilia por el Rey Felipe Segundo.  Nuestro senor. 
  Valladolid, 1612.

Descripcion general de Africa.  Don Luys de Marmol Caravajal.  Granada,
  1573.

Historia de Carlos Quinto.  El Maestro Don Fray Prudencio
  de Sandoval, Obispo de Pampluna. 1612.

El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha.  Cervantes.

Arte de Navegar.  Martin Cortes.

Dialogos del arte militar.  Bernardino de Escalante. 
  Seville, 1583.

Historia del combate naval de Lepanto.  Cayetano Rosell.

Epitaphia joco-seria.  Francisco Swertius. 1623.

La Guerra dei pirati e la marina Pontifica dal 1500 al 1560. 
  Padre Alberto Guglielmotti.

Storia della sacra religione et illustrissima milizia de San
  Giovanii Gerosolimitano.  Jacopo Bosio.