APPENDIX. No. I. cv 
From the authentic documents relating to this transaction, it appears that 
the ransoms paid for the redemption of the captives differed very considerably; 
the prices varyigg from between twenty and thirty pounds to more than one 
hundred pounds sterling for each man. But it is observable, on comparing 
the different rates, that the highest ransoms were paid for those,who must 
be considered, from their names, to have been natives of Scotland ; and 
who, it may be presumed, were more valuable than the rest from being more 
orderly and intelligent. It could not have been, easily anticipated that a 
soldier, brought up in a Scotch parish school, was likely, when enslaved, 
by the Turks and a captive in Egypt, to derive much advantage from his 
education. Yet it'is probable from this circumstance that the intelligence 
and habits of good conduct, which he acquired from early instruction, might 
recommend him to his master, and as domestic slavery admits of many- 
mitigations, might procure him kinder and better treatment. 
VOL. II. 
