Being stole away at the age of fifteen years, from the remotest part of Africa, my native country, I was at first sold to a master, who had above twenty wives or concubines, who judged from my gravity and taciturnity, that I was fit for a seraglio;
Nire sorterritik, hau da, Afrikatik hamabost urterekin aterea, lehenik hogei emazte edo ohaide zituen nagusi bati saldu ninduten.