SEA-WOLVES OF THE MEDITERRANEAN



[Illustration: KHEYR-ED-DIN BARBAROSSA--CORSAIR, ADMIRAL, AND KING.]



SEA-WOLVES OF THE MEDITERRANEAN


THE GRAND PERIOD OF THE MOSLEM CORSAIRS




BY COMMANDER E. HAMILTON CURREY, R.N.


WITH PORTRAITS AND ILLUSTRATIONS


"Ships be but boards, sailors but men:
There be land rats and water rats, land thieves and water thieves,
I mean pirates."

_Merchant of Venice_.


LONDON