The Circassian and Georgian maidens have always been considered to be extremely pretty by all Europeans travelling through their lands. The Turks, the Arabs, and the Persians must be of very much the same taste, for they are very eager to beautify their populations with such fine blood, and one also notes that the Persian race has actually succeeded in this. The merchants of Hindustan likewise do not fail to extract great profit from a wicked trade in such beautiful creatures, by supplying them to the sweet-toothed rich men of their country, and one sees that as divergent as the caprice of taste in these different regions of the world may be, that which is held to be especially pretty in one of them is also taken to be such in all the others
