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Updated: May 5, 2025
Aisa Reis, however, would hear no word of surrender, telling those who murmured against the defence that "if he heard a word more of these plots he would infallibly sacrifice every mother's son amongst them, and then lay the town in ashes."
Encouraged by this success, the Christian fleet then stood along the coast to inspect "Africa." Sailing quite close to the shore they came within range of the guns of the garrison, who, under the direction of Aisa, were very much on the alert.
Leaving Khaila, where we remained two nights and saw the New Year in, we passed a good many towered villages: Larsmeh was one, Hadouf another, also Subak and others. We passed the mouth of the Wadi Doan, which runs parallel to Wadi Al Aisa, and has two branches, only the largest having the name Doan.
"Their fangs mean death, if you only knew it, but for the mercies of my lord, the son of Aïsa." "Ameen!" responds the chorus. Hereupon he proceeds to direct the head of the snake to his mouth, and caressingly invites it to enter. Darting from side to side, it finally makes a plunge down his throat, whereon the strangers shudder, and the habitués look with triumphant awe.
Presently, having reached a climax of rapid beating and pacing, he suddenly stops in the centre with an extra "bang!" "Now, every man who believes in our lord Mohammed ben Aïsa, say with me a Fátihah."
His nephew Aisa, a man young in years but a past-graduate in the school of his terrible uncle, was left in charge, while Dragut himself sailed once more with his fleet, for, as it is put by the Spanish historian Marmol, "truly the sea was his element." Once again had a Moslem corsair bid defiance to that ruler whom Sandoval and Marmol in their histories greet by the name of the "Modern Cæsar."
The rage and the disappointment of the admiral were beyond all bounds; what to him was the value of the capture of Aisa, of the Turkish alcaid, of the ten thousand of the baser sort; nay, what to him was the value of "Africa" itself when once again like a mocking spirit Dragut had glided beyond the sea horizon to devastate, to plunder, and to slay once more, the scourge and the menace of Christendom.
And they left the naked bodies sprawling helplessly on the rough grasses. The rapid, noiseless movements of the quiet boys put Elisaveta into a mood verging on oblivion, half painful and half sweet. What happened in that thicket seemed like a heavy and incredible dream to Elisaveta a sudden and cruel whim of the undependable Aisa.
The town after a desperate and prolonged resistance was at last taken by storm; and Doria captured Aisa, a Turkish alcaid, and ten thousand prisoners of the baser sort. Of these, however, there was scarce one who owed allegiance to Dragut; the warriors of this chief neither gave nor accepted quarter, as they feared the wrath of the terrible corsair even more than death itself.
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