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Thread #63880   Message #1357295
Posted By: Weasel Books
15-Dec-04 - 03:03 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: How Barbary Pirates Learned Their Trade
Subject: RE: Folklore: How Barbary Pirates Learned Their Trade
There were plenty of Europeans who 'went Turk' and became pirates. Even as late as the end of the 18th century. There was a Tripolitan admiral, Murad Bey, who was actualy Peter Lisle the Scot!

Burl Ives has a variant of the song called Henry Martin, where he is the youngest oif three brothers and draws the lot to turn robber on the salt sea.