SEA-WOLVES OF THE
MEDITERRANEAN

THE GRAND PERIOD OF THE MOSLEM CORSAIRS
BY COMMANDER
E. HAMILTON CURREY, R.N.
WITH PORTRAITS AND ILLUSTRATIONS

“Ships are but boards, sailors but men:

There be land rats and water rats, land thieves and water thieves,

I mean pirates.”

Merchant of Venice.

LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W
1910

TO THAT GRACIOUS LADY
TO WHOSE COUNSEL AND ENCOURAGEMENT
I OWE SO MUCH
MORE THAN ANY ONE—SAVE I—CAN IMAGINE...
TO MY WIFE
I DEDICATE THIS BOOK

SEA-WOLVES OF THEMEDITERRANEAN