Of Frost and Fire
back: they refused to return as they liked the environment in Algiers more and found it more tolerable where, after converting to Islam, they got married and held big positions in the government which was something they couldn't have dreamed of back home.
"A surprising number of the captains were in fact European Christians by birth: John Ward the arch-pirate and Simon Dansiker "the Devil Captain of Algiers." The religious attitude of the pirates states seems to have been tolerant (more so than Europe at the time); a number of priests and ministers were permitted to tend to their Christian flocks. Law enforcement was, however, inventively cruel, although the English who reported what they co
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