In this way I lived on immured in a building or prison called by the Turks a bano in which they confine the Christian captives, as well those that are the king's as those belonging to private individuals, and also what they call those of the Almacen, which is as much as to say the slaves of the municipality, who serve the city in the public works and other employments; but captives of this kind recover their liberty with great difficulty, for, as they are public property and have no particular master, there is no one with whom to treat for their ransom, even though they may have the means.
»Con esto entretenía la vida, encerrado en una prisión o casa que los turcos llaman baño, donde encierran los cautivos cristianos, así los que son del rey como de algunos particulares; y los que llaman del almacén, que es como decir cautivos del concejo, que sirven a la ciudad en las obras públicas que hace y en otros oficios, y estos tales cautivos tienen muy dificultosa su libertad, que, como son del común y no tienen amo particular, no hay con quien tratar su rescate, aunque le tengan.