[72] Several Voyages, 58-65.
[73] This brief account of Cervantes’ captivity is abridged from my friend Mr. H. E. Watts’s admirable Life, prefixed to his translation of Don Quixote. The main original authority on the matter is Haedo, who writes on the evidence of witnesses who knew Cervantes in Algiers, and who one and all spoke with enthusiasm and love of his courage and patience, his good humour and unselfish devotion (Watts, i. 76, 96).
[74] Don Quixote, I., chap. xl. (Watts): “Every day he hanged a slave; impaled one; cut off the ears of another; and this upon so little animus, or so entirely without cause, that the Turks would own he did it merely for the sake of doing it, and because it was his nature.”
[75] H. E. Watts, Life of Cervantes, prefixed to his translation of Don Quixote, i. 96.
[76] Histoire de Barbarie et de ses Corsaires, par le R. P. Fr. Pierre Dan, Ministre et Superieur du Convent de la Sainte Trinité et Redemption des Captifs, fondé au Chasteau de Fontaine-bleau, et Bachelier en Theologie, de la Faculté de Paris.
A Paris, chez Pierre Rocolet, Libraire et Imprimeur ordre du Roy, au Palais, aux Armes du Roy et de la Ville. Avec Privilege de sa Majesté. 1637.
[77] Several Voyages to Barbary, second ed., Lond., 1736.
