So long as they are in the hands of the dealers, they are certainly not kept in very good style; so they all look forward with great joy to the prospect of getting a master.
When they are once purchased, their fate is generally far from hard.
They always adopt the religion of their master, are not overburdened with work, are well clothed and fed, and kindly treated.

Europeans also purchase slaves, but may not look upon them and treat them as such; from the moment when a slave is purchased by a Frank he becomes free.

Slaves bought in this way, however, generally stay with their masters.
THE OLD SERAIL is, of course, an object of paramount attraction to us Europeans.

I betook myself thither with my expectations at full stretch, and once more found the reality to be far below my anticipations.

The effect of the whole is certainly grand; many a little town would not cover so much ground as this place, which consists of a number of houses and buildings, kiosks, and summer-houses, surrounded with plantains and cypress-trees, the latter half hidden amid gardens and arbours.
Everywhere there is a total want of symmetry and taste.