jessica serrano

We have been doing

"When we sailed from here," said my brother, "we first came to a city called Kufa, where we sold the cloth we took with us for twenty cents a book, and made a lot of money. Then we bought a lot of Persian silk, which was cheap and fine, and sent it to Basra and sold it for one to four, and then we went to another city called Calha, where we did a deal and made a lot of money, so we had more and more money."