An English naval officer at the court of a Turkish pirate chief. The Moor sits on a divan on a carpet smoking a tobacco pipe, with guards in turbans armed with scimitars and lances. Admiral Bowsprit in an audience with a Moor sultan. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Charles Williams from The Post Captain, or Adventures of a True British Tar by a Naval Officer, J. Johnston, London, 1817. Attributed to Alfred Thornton or John Mitford.

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