Note 494 — ABDULLAH BIN FAZIL AND HIS BROTHERS[476]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
Arab. “Tájir Alfí” which may mean a thousand dinars (£500) or a thousand purses (= £5,000). “Alfí” is not an uncommon P.N., meaning that the bearer (Pasha or pauper) had been bought for a thousand left indefinite.