Who so triumphant now as Uruj Barbarossa?  It is true that the fortress of Pedro Navarro still remained in the hands of its splendid and undaunted garrison, and was destined so to remain for some years to come; but they were impotent for harm, and the conqueror of Don Diego now turned his arms in another direction.  Kheyr-ed-Din was at Jigelli when he heard of the victory gained by his brother, and sailed at once with six ships to his support.  The town of Tenes fell into the hands of the brothers, with an immense booty, and then Uruj marched on Tlemcen.  The Sultan of Tlemcen, the last of the royal race of the Beni-Zian, did not await the coming of the corsair.  All through the northern coasts of Africa the name of Barbarossa was a synonym of terror; the sad fate of Selim Eutemi, of Kara-Hassan, of the twenty-two conspirators of the mosque, had been noised abroad, and the superstitious tribesmen firmly believed that these red-bearded corsairs were the accomplices of Shaitan, even if they did not represent him themselves in their own persons.  Who were these men, they asked one another tremblingly, who feared neither God nor devil, and who caused even the redoubtable Spaniards to fly before them like the leaves in front of an autumn gale?

When men begin to talk and to think like this there is not much fight left in them, and so it came about that, after the most feeble of resistances, the Sultan of Tlemcen fled to Fez.  Thus, almost without striking a blow, Uruj found himself master of a province from which the Spaniards were accustomed to draw the necessary provisions for the upkeep of the garrison of Oran.  But Tlemcen is but some seventy miles from Oran, and Oran is so close to Spain as to be easily reinforced; in consequence Uruj was soon blockaded by the Spaniards, and remained so for seven months.  But no blockade could keep Uruj Barbarossa for long within stone walls; sortie after sortie did the gallant corsair lead against the foe, and it was in one of these that he characteristically came by his death.  Ever rash and impetuous, he allowed himself to be drawn too far away from possible shelter or support; and, as there was something dramatic in the whole life of this man, so also was there in the manner of his death.  They had him trapped at last, this grim Sea-wolf, and he stood at bay in a stone corral used for the herding of goats.

  As the wolves in winter circle round the leaguer on the heath,
  So the greedy foe glared upward panting still for blood and death.

By his side was his faithful lieutenant Venalcadi.  In a breathless melee Christian sword and Moslem sabre clashed and rang.  His turban gone, his great curved scimitar red to the hilt, the undaunted corsair fought his last fight as became the terror of his name.  Almost had he succeeded in breaking through the ring of his foes when Garzia de Tineo, alferez (or lieutenant) to Captain Diego de Andrade, wounded him severely with a pike.  Uruj stumbled, was