Beadle's Half Dime Library, No. 103 — page 1: what you’re looking at

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| a (al | iu! $2.50 a year. -_- -_— Vol. IV. —— Sincle Number. The Lion of the Sea; The Vailed Lady of San Tropez. A WEIRD, WILD TALE OF THE WHEN THE ALGERINE PIRATES SWEPT THE SOUTHERN SEA AND BOLDLY DEFIED ALL THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH. BY COLONEL DELLE SARA, CHAPTER L THE LUGGER. ‘What wild and wandering men are these?”’ —OLD PLAY. Buvue are the waters of the Mediterranean, fairest of all the Southern Seas; and r‘ , * ii@] — owen , - ey - 4 se “* 7 — 4, w (ss ‘ + °; a/ Fa “ Py * ify) SY es Tithe a ° Saas - > if \ \) ee arg » » — > , ud ! i Es FOR THE LOVE OF HAVEN, OLDEN TIME, | that land, ure * in reality utterly ind NORLY Sr ah N NN AWW ‘\ GALLA < AN \\\\n ——! F— WIND W Sua No. 98 WILLIAM STREET, NEW YORK. its tides in stories of romance than all the rest of the waters of Europe combined. And of the Mediterranean we write—of that beautiful sea as it was in the year 1653 when on its southern line it washed upon the territory of as merciless a horde of corsairs as this world has ever known. It is of the Algerines we i weak, the Algerines of Algiers, the fierce and turbane .4 Moors, ruled over by a Dey who claimed direct descent from the far-famed pirates of the olden time, the Brothers Barbarossa, who, invited by the peo- ple of the coast, craving for rulers who depend- | ed upon the strong hand rather than on the might of right, seized upon the throne of Al- giers. { ee x5 up wane m mM) : oan Tl ime tl Tt atl ln fl mu Entered at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., as Second Class Matter. Copyrighted in 1879 by BEADLE AND ADAMS, PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY BEADLE AND ADAMS, L. l Ibn d | ' a uit ‘ i i Ne . va WMD} MO W. ORR-6 0H AN (5 AN : July 15, 1879 oe Pi | \ — ———— Price, 5 Cents. In 1653 the Dey was called Aboo Tiassan, x “phe arrogant tyrant who believed Limself ; master of as great a kingdom as though he 5 could boast that on his dominions the sun never set. And this jackdaw of a sovereign—this little head of a nest of sea-robbers of the a dared to levy war upon any ship that s its white sails on the blue waters of the headin ranean, no matter what flag she carried. All was fish that came to the net of these ruthless sea-rovers whether the vessel cpg’ _ at her peak the keys and castle of old oa oe on or And these pirate brothers became lords of | Turk by, bes and their « scendant ‘ them as Deys, nomirally su’, pendenk rR aul" ent _—“~ eee S\ Z AE L ey . = ’ eau . Vane Sy of — ~< STAIN NOT YOUR sour | these merciless Italian colors of Leghorn, Genoa or even the almost-universally-respected lilies of France or the St. George’s Cross of England. It seemed strange that these powerful nations should submit to such outrages at the hands of rogues, but they did so for "man ¥ years, and even paid black-mail to the ‘‘ mac+ > a, do: we ee ie ee —"< Sy” = ~ = 7 - ~~ ——— = WITH THIS DEED OF HORROR!’ SHE CRIED. (©)