Sea-wolves

Infantry, "of never knowing when they were beaten," seems to have also characterised the Sea-wolves; as witness the marvellous recuperation of

Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey

Sea-wolves had this at least to recommend them, that they feared neither

Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey

Sea-wolves made their offing; out of sight of land they lay, but right in the course which the galleys of the Christians were bound to take.

Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey

For some inscrutable reason the deeds of sea-robbers have always possessed a fascination denied to those of their more numerous brethren of the land; and in the case of the Sea-wolves of the sixteenth century we are dealing with the very aristocrats of the profession.

Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey

Sea-wolves; he outgeneralled and had all but defeated John Andrea Doria, when the end came and he was obliged to retreat.

Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey

Sea-wolves of the Mediterranean, Primarily sea-robbers they were of course, but as time and opportunity developed their characters they rose to meet occasion, to take fortune at the flood, in a manner that, had they been pursuing any other career, would most certainly have caused them to rise to eminence.

Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey

Driven from the land of plenty -- from glorious Andalusia with its fruitful soil, its magnificent cities, its vines and olives, its fruit and grain, its noble rivers and wide-spreading _vegas_ -- the Spanish Moslem of the day of the Sea-wolves was an outcast and a beggar, ripe for adventure and burning for revenge on those by whom he had been expropriated.

Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey

This undoubtedly was the case, and there is no desire to magnify the deeds of the Sea-wolves or to minimise the heroic defence of

Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey

That which it demonstrated, as far as the Sea-wolves were concerned, was that they still remained the most competent seamen and sea-fighters in the Mediterranean, and that the legend of the invincibility of the Ottomans at sea rested on what had been accomplished during a long period of years by these insatiable pirates and magnificent warriors.

Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey

Sea-wolves were subjected from time to time, and which do not seem to have caused them much trouble or anxiety.

Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey