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Updated: July 21, 2025
Ayoub departed in all haste to the increasing jeers of the multitude and the taunts of Tsamanni, whilst Sakr-el-Bahr turned him once more to the dalal. "At one thousand and six hundred philips this slave is thine, O Sakr-el-Bahr, thou glory of Islam. May Allah increase thy victories!" "Pay him, Ali," said the corsair shortly, and he advanced to receive his purchase.
Of what use a slave who must be hardened and nourished into strength, and who might very well die in the process? Even at five philips he would be dear. So the disgusted dalal came back to Ali. "He is thine, then, for five philips Allah pardon thy avarice." Ali grinned, and his men seized upon Lionel and bore him off into the background to join the two negroes previously purchased.
The dalal, who had conceived that the limits of madness had been already reached, stood gaping now in fresh amazement. The mob crowed and cheered and roared between enthusiasm and derision, and even Tsamanni brightened to see another champion enter the lists who perhaps would avenge him upon Ayoub. The crowd parted quickly to right and left, and through it into the open strode Sakr-el-Bahr.
Consider me the moon-bright loveliness of her face," said the dalal as he moved on. "Chigil yields us fair women, but no woman of Chigil was ever half so fair." "One hundred and fifty," said the Levantine Turk with a snap. "Not yet enough. Behold the stately height which Allah hath vouchsafed her. See the noble carriage of her head, the lustre of her eye!
They came to a halt at the western end of the long wall, the chief dalal standing slightly in advance of the other two. The chattering of voices sank upon their advent, it became a hissing whisper, then a faint drone like that of bees, and then utter silence.
"They were born to toil nobly at the oar, O Ali-Reis," replied the dalal in all solemnity. "What wilt thou give for them?" "Two hundred philips for the twain." The dalal paced solemnly on, the slaves following in his wake. "Two hundred philips am I offered for a pair of the lustiest slaves that by the favour of Allah were ever brought into this market. Who will say fifty philips more?"
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