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Title:  The Algerine captive; or, The life and adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill: six years a prisoner among the Algerines. [Three lines from Shakespeare] : Vol. I[-II]. : Published according to act of Congress.
Author: Tyler, Royall, 1757-1826.
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also receives presents from his friends.Within a limited time, the husband may break the contract, provided he will add another item to that already given, return his bride with all her parapherna|lia; and, putting the holy alcoran to his breast, assert that he never benefited him|self of the rights of an husband.Notwithstanding the apparent restraint, the women are under, they are said to be attached to their husbands, and enjoy greater liberty than is generally conceiv|ed. I certainly saw many women in the streets, so muffled up, and so similar from their outward garment, that their nearest relatives could not distinguish one from another. The vulgar slaves conjecture that the women take great liberties in this general disguise.Their funerals are decent but not os|tentatious. I saw many. The corps, car|ried upon a bier, is preceded by the priests, 0