The Middy and the Moors: An Algerine Story

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Robert Michael Ballantyne. The Middy and the Moors: An Algerine Story

Chapter One. An Algerine Story. The Hero is Blown away, Captured, Crushed, Comforted, and Astonished

Chapter Two. Among Pirates—Enslaved

Chapter Three. The Bagnio—Our Hero sees something of Misery, and is sold as a Slave

Chapter Four. Our Middy is put to Work—Also put on his “word-of-Honour,” and receives a Great Shock of Surprise

Chapter Five. The Maiden’s Story—Peter the Great and the Middy go for a Holiday and see Awful Things

Chapter Six. Our Hero sees the Moors in Several Aspects, and makes a Great Discovery

Chapter Seven. The Middy obtains a Decided Advance, and Makes Peter the Great his Confidant

Chapter Eight. A Severe Trial—Secret Communication under Difficulties, and Sudden Flight

Chapter Nine. Hester introduced to a New Home and New Friends under Peculiar Circumstances, and a New Name

Chapter Ten. Torture is Applied in Vain, and True Love is not to be Deceived

Chapter Eleven. Dangers, Vicissitudes, Escapes, New Surroundings, Hopes, And Fears

Chapter Twelve. The Middy, becoming Defiant and Violent, comes to Grief, and Hester’s Black Friends devise Strange Things

Chapter Thirteen. Hester and her Father severely Tested

Chapter Fourteen. A Brave Dash for Life and Freedom

Chapter Fifteen. A Strange Visit, a Strange Commission, and a Strange Display of Temper

Chapter Sixteen. Mysterious and Daring Deeds are Crowned with Success

Chapter Seventeen. The Last

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When George Foster was again permitted to go on deck the sight that he beheld was not calculated to comfort him in his misfortunes.

Several Moorish seamen were going about with bared legs and arms, swishing water on the decks and swabbing up the blood with which they were bespattered. Most of these men were more or less wounded and bandaged, for the crew of the merchantman they had attacked had offered a desperate resistance, knowing well the fate in store for them if captured.

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Poor Foster’s heart sank on hearing this, for he had heard of the hopeless slavery to which thousands of Christians had been consigned there in time past, and his recent experience of Moors had not tended to improve his opinion of them.

A feeling of despair impelled him to seize the negro by the arm as he was about to ascend the ladder and stop him.

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