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How severely Cervantes ounded orous frame, and as cheerful and buoyant a temperament

as ever invalid had, he was seven ed He came out with his left hand permanently disabled; he

had lost the use of it, as Mercury told hilory of the right This, however, did not absolutely

unfit him for service, and in April 1572 he joined Manuel Ponce de Leon's

coio was serving, and shared in the operations of the next

three years, including the capture of the Goletta and Tunis Taking

advantage of the lull which followed the recapture of these places by the

Turks, he obtained leave to return to Spain, and sailed froalley, in coo, Pedro Carrillo de Quesada, late Governor of the Goletta, and

some others, and furnished with letters from Don John of Austria and the

Duke of Sesa, the Viceroy of Sicily, reco for the

command of a company, on account of his services; a dono infelice as

events proved On the 26th they fell in with a squadron of Algerine

galleys, and after a stout resistance were overpowered and carried into

Algiers

By means of a ransomed fellow-captive the brothers contrived to inform

their family of their condition, and the poor people at Alcala at once

strove to raise the ranso of all he

possessed, and the two sisters giving up their e portions But

Dali Ma by Don

John and the Duke of Sesa, and, concluding that his prize reat consequence, when the ether insufficient The owner of Rodrigo, however, was more

easily satisfied; ransoed