تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.24.2

13.24.2

وكان قد وصل في ذلك الوقت سبى من الكفار فبعث الوزير الي عشر جوار منه فأعطيت للذي جاء بهن واحدة منهن، فما رضي بذلك! وأخذ أصحابي ثلاثا صغارا منهن، وباقيهن لا أعرف ما اتفق لهن، والسبى هنالك رخيص الثمن لانهن قذرات لا يعرفن مصالح الحضر والمعلمات رخيصات الأثمان، فلا يفتقر أحد إلى شراء السبى.

At that time a batch of captives from the infidels had arrived, and the vizier sent me ten slave-girls from it. I gave one of them to the man who brought them, and he was not satisfied with that! My companions took three young ones among them, and as for the rest, I do not know what became of them. Captives are cheap there because they are dirty and do not know the ways of town life, and trained girls are cheap too, so no one needs to buy captives.