Towards the end of their performance many of the dervishes seized a small tambourine, on which they beat and produced a most diabolical music.
In the slave-market there was but a meagre selection; all the wares had been bought, and a new cargo of these unfortunates was daily expected.

I pretended that I wished to purchase a boy and a girl, in order to gain admittance into the private department.

Here I saw a couple of negro girls of most uncommon beauty.

I had not deemed it possible to find any thing so perfect.

Their skin was of a velvety black, and shone with a peculiar lustre.