The  independent  kingdom  of  Tunis
still  intervened  between  the  Ottoman
pashalik  of  Egypt  and  the  newly-ac-
quired dependencies  of  the  Porte  in
Algiers;  but  its  throne  was  no  longer
occupied  by  Sultan  Mohammed,  who
died  in  1523,  after  a  reign  of  more
than  thirty  years.  The  contest  of  his
forty-seven  sons  terminated  in  the
victory  of  Hassan,  one  of  the  youngest,
who  secured  himself  by  the  massacre


History.    Ao.  VUI.  [Ang.
of  all  his  brothers — Rashid  aloae
escaping  to  Algiers,  where  he  was
sheltered  and  protected  by  Khair-ed-
cfeen.  He  was  still  residing  there  io
exile,  when  (in  the  summer  of  1533)
an  imperial  tchaoosh  arrived  to  sum-
mon Barbarossa  to  a  personal  confer-
ence with  the  sultan  at  Constanti-
nople— the  successes  of  Doria  on  the
coast  of  the  Morea,  and  the  capture  of
Coron,  haviiig  determined  Soliman  to
direct  all  the  naval  forces  of  his  em-
pire against  the  Genoese  admiral.
