The boy travellers in southern Europe : adventures of two youths in a journey through Italy, southern France, and Spain, with visits to Gibraltar and the islands of Sicily and Malta (1893)
Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 489
s who used to infestthese shores and carry the inhabitants into captivity. For their ownsafety the churches and convents were made capable of resisting anyordinary attack, and some of them could have withstood a siege of con-siderable length. The conditions of former times in this locality… … CAPUCHIN MONKS. now, just as this convent guarded against assaults by Algerine corsairsand other marauders a century or two centuries ago. And it isnt so very long ago, either, Fred remarked, as Frankpaused, that the Algerines made raids on these shores or on the ship-ping that went out from French…
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