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I gagement. He insisted, nevertheless,
on going into the very thick Of the
action, faint and weak as he was. 'If
I must die" he said, "let me not die on
my bed like a weakling, but on my
feet, fighting for God and the king!"
The words have become very historic.
He was the bravest of them all that
/ day, and exposed himself to enor-
nous dangers. At last, when the battle
was almost over shot crippled mis-
left arm, and, as matter of fact, he
never fully recovered the use of it
again.
Not long after this Cervantes OBJ
| tanned leave to go home to see his FAM
lily. He started in a stout ship, with
good crew, and turned his face toward
Spanish SOIL Just off the coast of Min
orca he was set upon by squadron of
Algerine corsairs commanded by the
dreaded pirate, Arnaut Mani. He, as
the chief captive, was given into the
hands Of Deli Marni, Greek rene
gade, who sold him for 1,50O crowns to
the king of Algiers.
The king at that time was Hassan
Pacha. Hassan Pacha called Cervantes
'the MANNED Spaniard," but he re-
spected him, and even seemed Curl
ously afraid of him. He never actual
ly ill-treated "the manned Spaniard,"
though he apears to have come very
near it quite often. Cervantes was
twice brought into the kings presence
to be hanged, and once he was SEN
! fenced to receive two thousand blows
with a stick. Yet these horrors never
came to pass. What Cervantes did
have to endure was to be present at
the torturing of his companions, and
to watch their sufferings and the
amusement of their captors at their
misery. He had, too the agony of un-
certainty year in and year out, for
Miguel de Cervantes was a slave in
Algiers for five years
In 1880 the ransom offered by his
family and by members of the church
in Spain was accepted by Hassan
Pacha, and Cervantes was freed. He
returned to Spain-to rest after his
sufferings? Never! He re-enlisted
without delay and went off, manned
Spaniard" though he was, to serve in
Portugal and the Azores. On his final
return, in 1854, he married Dona Cata-
lima de Palacios Salazary. One might
imagine that the gods had finished
making sport of poor Cervantes, but
he was to undergo in his own land
humiliatons and miseries far greater
than any which had been his lot in
Algiers. The public which had ap-
plauded him in his early youth had
forgotten him entirely and granted him
but pittance by way of livlihood.
He wrote and struggled and starved
and wandered about from Madrid to
Seville and back again, but he grew
Ioorer and poorer until he was finally
reduced to such rags and wretched-
ness as is only known by beggars.
1t was during these years, embit-
tered and broken by the i'll return that
his courageous and adventurous spirit
lad received from a grudging world
that he wrote his Don Quixote." the
story of his own disillusionment, his
own generous madness and his own
vast failures.
He wrote many fine things during
his busy career, notably "Galatea, an
Eelogue," 1884; "Novelas Exemplares;
Twelve Instructive or Moral Tales"
1913; "Viaje del Parnaso" Journey to
Parnassus), 1914, and "Persiles and
Sigismunda, a Northern Romance"
whieh his wldsw published In 1917,