Our fugitive, with eighteen other white slaves, was put on board a Xebec, carrying eight six-pounders and sixty men, which, on the coast of Malta, encountered an armed vessel belonging to Genoa, and, after much bloodshed, was taken sword in hand.
"White Slavery in the Barbary States"
Charles Sumner
Perree was on board the Xebec 'Cerf'.
"The Project Gutenberg Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte"
Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton
The shallowness of the river near Cairo obliged us to leave the Xebec and get on board a djerm.
"The Project Gutenberg Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte"
Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton