23 The ADVENTURES of for a companion at my cups, a young gentleman of Leghorn called Azarini, who was my own Have. I was not like the relt of the renegadocs, who are more cruel to chriftian Haves than the Turks thernfelves ; all my captives waited very patiently for their redemption; and indeed I treated them fo gently, that fome- times, they told me, they were more afraid of changing their mailer than deftrous of liberty, whatever charms it has for people in a Hate of bondage.
One day, the dey’s veffels returned with confider- ablc prizes, bringing in more than an hundred Haves of both fexes, whom they had taken on the coaft of Spain. Solyman kept but a very fmall number, and the reft were expofed to fale : I arrived in the market-place, and bought a Spanilh girl about ten or twelve years old, who wept bitterly and feemed in de- fpair. 1 was furprized to fee one of her age fo fenli* blc of captivity ; and bid her, in Caftiltan, moderate her aflli£tion, alluring her that (he had fallen into the hands of a mailer who did not want humanity, tho* he wore a tut ban. The young creature, whofemind was Hill engroffed by her forrow, did not hear what I faid ; fhe did nothing but fob, complain of her fate, and from time to time, cry with a piteous accent, “ O my mother ! why are we feparated ? I Ihould have patience were we together.*' In pronouncing thefe words Ihe turned her eyes towards a woman between forty and fifty years of age, who flood a few paces from her. and with a downcall look, wailed in lullen filence, until fomebody Ihould purchafe her. I alk- cd the young girl, if the perfon Ihe looked at was her mother. “ Yes, alas! Signior, (ihe replied) in the name of God, do not part us.” Well, my child, (faid 1) if it is ncceflary for your confutation that you Ihould be together, you lhall foon be fatisficd.'* At the fame time, 1 approached the mother, in order to bid for her : but I no fooner beheld her lace, than I recole£l- cd with all the emotion you can imagine the features, the individual countenance of Lucinda! “ Juft hea.