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to which the youth replied, al spanish, &ot;i a neither turk, noroor, nor renegade&ot;

&ot;what art thou, then?&ot; said the viceroy

&ot;a christian woan,&ot; replied the youth

&ot;a woan and a christian, such a dress and such circtances!it is ore arvello than credible,&ot; said the viceroy

&ot;spend the execution of the sentence,&ot; said the youth; &ot;yourvenance will not lose uch by waitg while i tell you the storyof y life&ot;

what heart uld be hard as not to he ftened by these words, atany rate far as to listen to what the unhappy youth had to say? theneral bade hi say what he pleased, but not to expect pardon for hisflagrant offence with this perission the youth began these words

&ot;born of oris parents, i a of that nation, ore unhappy thanwise, upon which of late a sea of woes has poured down theurse of our isfortune i was carried to barbary by o uncles ofe, for it was va that i declared i was a christian, as facti a, and not a re pretended one, or ouardly, but a truecatholic christian it availed nothg with those 插rd withour sad expatriation to protest this, nor would y uncles believeit; on the ntrary, they treated it as an untruth and a subterfet up to enable to rea behd the land of y birth; and, ore by force than of y own will, they took with the i had achristian other, and a father who was a an of und sense and achristian too; i ibibed the catholic faith with y other&039;s ilk, iwas well brought up, and ne