Jean's First Voyages

Jean wasn't on Malta long before he shipped out on a galley, bound for the coast of Greece. He cruised the Aegean and the Levant, picking off ships loaded down with pilgrims headed for Mecca and Medina. His first glimpses of North Africa came when his galley chased down a small Courserre galley that had taken captives from a village in Calabria,. Those were precisely the kinds of ships and outings that our friend Hassan, formerly Giovanni, was getting to know.