 | Classical philology - 1829 - 478 pages
...pilgrims) old and young, who often pretend to bargain with the dealers that they may have an opportunity of viewing the slave-girls, during a few moments, in some adjoining apartment. " The price of the handsomest was from one hundred and ten to one hundred and twenty dollars." (p.... | |
 | 1829 - 576 pages
...pilgrims) old and young, who often pretend to hargain with the dealers that they may have an opportunity of viewing the slave-girls, during a few moments, in some adjoining apartment. " The price of the handsomest was from one hundred and ten to one hundred and twenty dollars." This... | |
 | Classical philology - 1829 - 398 pages
...pilgrims) old and young, who often pretend to bargain with the dealers that they may have an opportunity of viewing the slave-girls, during a few moments, in some adjoining apartment. " The price of the handsomest was from one hundred and ten to one hundred and twenty dollars." (p.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1830 - 564 pages
...Burckhardt observes, ' as beauty is an universal attraction, these benches are always surrounded by hadjis, both old and young, who often pretend to bargain with the dealers, for the purpose of examining the slave-girls, during a few moments, in some adjoining apartment.' It does not, indeed,... | |
 | Francis E. Peters - History - 1994 - 542 pages
...exposed for sale and as beauty is an universal attraction, these benches are always surrounded by hajjis, both old and young, who often pretend to bargain with...hundred and ten to one hundred and twenty dollars. (Burckhardt 1829: 120) THE SLAVERY ISSUE Burckhardt was describing a local Hijazi market with no visible... | |
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About the middle of the Soueyga (Little Market), where the street is only four paces in breadth, are stone benches on each side. Here Abyssinnian male and female slaves are exposed for sale; and as beauty is an universal attraction, these benches are... 