This "scabby one" rowed at the oar as a slave of the Grand Signor's for fourteen years, and when over thirty-four years of age, in resentment at having been struck by a Turk while at the oar, turned renegade and renounced his faith in order to be able to revenge himself; and such was his valour that, without owing his advancement to the base ways and means by which most favourites of the Grand Signor rise to power, he came to be king of Algiers, and afterwards general-on-sea, which is the third place of trust in the realm. He was a Calabrian by birth, and a worthy man morally, and he treated his slaves with great humanity.
Y este Tiñoso bogó el remo, siendo esclavo del Gran Señor, catorce años, y a más de los treinta y cuatro de sus edad renegó, de despecho de que un turco, estando al remo, le dio un bofetón, y por poderse vengar dejó su fe; y fue tanto su valor que, sin subir por los torpes medios y caminos que los más privados del Gran Turco suben, vino a ser rey de Argel, y después, a ser general de la mar, que es el tercero cargo que hay en aquel señorío.