Identifier: childrensstories02wrig (find matches)
Title: Children's stories of American progress
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Wright, Henrietta Christian. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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manded tribute, andevery year the different nations sent certainsums to the governors of these countries to buytheir promise not to interfere with their trade. But after the tribute had been paid, little heedwas given to the promise, for the pirates alwayskept the seas as usual, and year after yearNeapolitan, Venetian, French and English sea-men were captured by these lawless robbers, andeither confined in dismal dungeons, or made toserve as slaves with other unfortunate captives. It very rarely happened that any prisonerescaped, for all the harbors were closely guarded,and constantly filled with Algerine and Tripoli-tan vessels on the alert for runaway slaves, andif the poor captive thought to cross the moun-tains and escape by land, he well knew that hewould have to traverse miles and miles of un-known country, and perhaps at last fall a preyto wandering Arabs or the ferocious beasts ofthe desert. And so the only thing to do was to waitpatiently until the news of his capture reached
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DECATUR AND THK BARBARY PIRATES. THE BARBARY PIRATES. 43 hiTfe^away friends, and they sent money tobuy his release. If they were very poor and could not do this,his chances of freedom were very small, and itwas quite likely he would spend the rest of his life as a slave. The more powerful governments generallytried to redeem their own citizens, but even thiswas sometimes impossible without sending men-of-war, and demanding them at the cannons mouth. The Barbary States possess a delightful cli-mate and fertile soil, and their rich valleys pro-duced all the tropical fruits in abundance. A little way back from the cities of the coastwere the country-seats of the wealthy class, sit-uated in view of the mountains, and surroundedby beautiful groves and tasteful gardens. Here, amid fields of wheat and barley, andgroves of date, olive, fig, lemon and other trees,could be seen the patient figure of the slave,working early and late in all times and seasons,and looking seaward with sad eyes, whi

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