El Uchali

Also known as: Uchali Fartax · Family: Turks · Role: king of Algiers and corsair · First appears: Part 1, Ch. 39.2

Life events

El Uchali captured the captive after taking the Maltese galley.(Part 1, Ch. 39.2)
- “El Uchali, the king of Algiers, a daring and successful corsair, having attacked and taken the leading Maltese galley”
Selim appointed El Uchali general at sea for his bravery in battle.(Part 1, Ch. 39.2 · 📍 Constantinople)
- With: Selim
- “They carried me to Constantinople, where the Grand Turk, Selim, made my master general at sea for having done his duty in the battle”
El Uchali died after rising from galley slave to king of Algiers and general-on-sea.(Part 1, Ch. 40.1 · 📍 Constantinople)
- “Finally the fleet returned victorious and triumphant to Constantinople, and a few months later died my master, El Uchali”
El Uchali’s slaves were divided, and the captive fell to Hassan Aga’s lot.(Part 1, Ch. 40.1 · 📍 Constantinople)
- With: the Grand Signor Hassan Aga the captive
- “I fell to the lot of a Venetian renegade who, when a cabin boy on board a ship, had been taken by Uchali”

enemies with the captive “El Uchali, as you know, sirs, made his escape with his entire squadron, and I was left a prisoner in his power, the only sad being among so many filled with joy, and the only captive among so many free;”
employer: Selim “They carried me to Constantinople, where the Grand Turk, Selim, made my master general at sea for having done his duty in the battle and carried off as evidence of his bravery the standard of the Order of Malta.”

employer: the Grand Signor (The Grand Signor owned El Uchali as a slave before his advancement.) “This ‘scabby one’ rowed at the oar as a slave of the Grand Signor’s for fourteen years, and when over thirty-four years of age, in resentment at having been struck by a Turk while at the oar, turned renegade and renounced his faith in order to be able to revenge himself;”
servant: the captive (El Uchali is explicitly identified as the captive’s master.) “Finally the fleet returned victorious and triumphant to Constantinople, and a few months later died my master, El Uchali, otherwise Uchali Fartax, which means in Turkish ‘the scabby renegade;’”
servant: Hassan Aga (Hassan Aga was taken by Uchali as a cabin boy and became his favored dependent.) “I fell to the lot of a Venetian renegade who, when a cabin boy on board a ship, had been taken by Uchali and was so much beloved by him that he became one of his most favoured youths.”

Extracted from the original text of Don Quixote (Ormsby's translation). Made with Rho MD.