A survey of a relatively small, restricted sample of seventy-seven letters regarding the manumission or sale of slaves in the "Majmua-i-wathaiq" reveals that slaves of Indian origin ("Hindi al-asal") accounted for over fifty-eight percent of those slaves whose region of origin is mentioned. The "Khutut-i-mamhura bemahr-i qadat-i Bukhara", a smaller collection of judicial documents from early-eighteenth-century Bukhara, includes several letters of manumission, with over half of these letters referring to slaves "of Indian origin". Even in the model of a legal letter of manumission written by the chief "qazi" for his assistant to follow, the example used is of a slave "of Indian origin".