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In this way I lived on i or prison called by the

Turks a bano in which they confine the Christian captives, as well those

that are the king's as those belonging to private individuals, and also

what they call those of the Almacen, which is as much as to say the

slaves of the municipality, who serve the city in the public works and

other employments; but captives of this kind recover their liberty with

great difficulty, for, as they are public property and have no particular

master, there is no one hoh

they may have the means To these banos, as I have said, soing their captives,

especially when they are to be ransomed; because there they can keep the's captives

also, that are on ransoo out to ith the rest of the

crew, unless when their ransom is delayed; for then, to ly, they coht labour

I, however, was one of those on ransoh I declaredcould dissuade the to be ransomed They put a chain on me, more as a mark of