"Three or four days after my departure, we were attacked by corsairs, who easily seized upon our ship, because it was no vessel of force. Some of the crew offered resistance, which cost them their lives. But for myself and the rest, who were not so imprudent, the corsairs saved us on purpose to make slaves of us.
"We were all stripped, and instead of our own clothes, they gave us sorry rags, and carried us into a remote island, where they sold us.