Everybody  is  flogged  at  short  shifts,  and  a
rower  in  the  galleys,  suspected  of  laxity  in
effort,  has  his  arm  struck  off  as  a  warning  to
others.  When  the  players  are  bidden  to  per-
form before  the  viceroy  they  unfortunately
select  for  their  piece  La  rehelion  de  Granada,
and  meet  martyrdom  on  account  of  its  anti-
morisco  sentiments ;  but  Alonso,  who  has
acted  as  corpse,  and  as  page  to  the  Moor-
ish king,  is  spared  and  ransomed.  Pindaro
engages  in  a  naval  battle  with  seven  Turkish
ships  off  the  island  of  Iviza,  where  a  storm
disperses  the  vessels  and  the  hero  is  wrecked.
The  surviving  Spaniards  band  together  on
shore   with   a   company   of    Moorish   captives,


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defeating  their  enemies.  A  Moor,  whom  Pin-
daro  befriends  here,  turns  out  to  be  really  a
Spaniard,  Figueroa,  his  boyhood  companion,
captured  while  mackerel-fishing  near  Cadiz
and  taken  to  Algiers.  There  he  had  married
his  master's  daughter  and  become  a  renegade,
acquiring  riches  through  piracy.  Now  he  is
reconciled  to  the  Church  by  Pindaro  and  dies
a  good  Christian.  Most  of  the  captured,  how-
ever, from  the  first  only  feign  conversion  to
Mohammedanism,  and  are  plotting  escape
through  securing  the  favor  of  their  masters
or  making  Moorish  marriages.  Marcos  de
Obregon's  Algerine  tells  him  of  a  Moor  who
captured  on  the  Spanish  coast  a  beautiful  girl
that  he  brought  back  to  Barbary  treating
her  kindly,  and  making  her  his  wife.  For
seven  years  she  seemed  reconciled  to  her  new
life  although  always  planning  to  get  away.
