Impatient that the Crescent was not lowered, after a few broadsides, he sprang on board the enemy alone, waving an immense two-handed sword--his usual weapon--and mowing a passage right and left through the hostile ranks for the warriors who tardily followed the footsteps of their vehement chief.

Mustapha Bey, the treasurer and commander of the ship, fell before his sword, besides many others, whom he hardly saw or counted.

The galley was soon his own, as well as another, which came to the rescue of the treasure-ship only to share its defeat.

The booty which Alexander's crew secured was prodigious, individual soldiers obtaining two and three thousand ducats each.

Don John received his nephew after the battle with commendations, not, however, unmingled with censure.