ABSTRACT
Turkish officials devised another way to obtain building stones to tear down the fortress of the city and to build the new building from the stones obtained there. So that the officials themselves might pocket the money earmarked for tearing down the fortress, they conceived the idea of using prisoners as slave labor. Early one morning the Arab major, a sergeant-major, and twenty-five soldiers took one hundred from the prison to the fortress. The prisoners were marched upon the wall to remove the stones. The work had just begun when the sergeant came to the author and gave him special instructions: You don't look like one who should tear walls down. Towards evening the Arab major came back, saw that the prisoners were sweating hard at their task but that only forty or fifty stones had been removed.
