I remained there two days just before I could see the Sultan, and during that time the interpreter spoke much with me, and requested me about myself, and listened to from me how that I was a Castilian, born in Seville, whereat he was incredibly happy, for he too had been born there, but experienced been carried as a youngster to Jerusalem with his father, who was a Jew, and on his father's loss of life he became a Moor.