. A family flight around home. PIKATES. 271 he examined with much care, for it was an alarm watch, thefirst he had ever seen. The result of Mr. Barclays visit was a promise from the em-peror, on the first day of the blessed month Ramadan, 1200, of alasting treaty with the United States. But it was not until 1817that he prohibited piracy throughout his dominions. The regency of Algiers was by far the most formidable of the. THE HOUSE FARED ILL DURING THE WET WEATHER. Barbary powers. In 1815, Commodore Decatur, encountering anAlgerine squadron, took a frigate and a brig, and sailed into thebay o


. A family flight around home. PIKATES. 271 he examined with much care, for it was an alarm watch, thefirst he had ever seen. The result of Mr. Barclays visit was a promise from the em-peror, on the first day of the blessed month Ramadan, 1200, of alasting treaty with the United States. But it was not until 1817that he prohibited piracy throughout his dominions. The regency of Algiers was by far the most formidable of the. THE HOUSE FARED ILL DURING THE WET WEATHER. Barbary powers. In 1815, Commodore Decatur, encountering anAlgerine squadron, took a frigate and a brig, and sailed into thebay of Algiers, where he forced the dey to surrender all Ameri-can prisoners, and to abandon all future claims for tribute. Thisbold example was followed by the English, but piracy was notsuppressed. A long struggle between France and Algiers endedin the occupation of the country by the French, which has lastedto the present time. Since 1830, nothing has been heard of the 272 A FAMILY FLIGHT AROUND HOMPl


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