When the Galley of Umbria was attacked and captured by Moslem pirates, there was on board her, among other passengers, a boy of twelve named John Stephen-Michael de la Naye, who was travelling with his mother, lately widowed, to make the Jerusalem pilgrimage. Among the papers left by the de la Naye family to my own mother's forebears occurs the following account:

"The battle began towards evening. Our great nef, under sail (for the wind was fair and in the right quarter), was surprised by three Moslem galleys something north of Tunis. We saw them coming up from the south of us about a quarter of an hour after the look-out had first spied them from the top-mast."