Samad leads his caravan of merchants through the gates paying the bribe requested by the guards.  He is wrapped tightly in a cloak as he enters the city his caravan following him.  As the slave auction unfolds he goes up to the auctioneer and proceeds to examine the merchandise looking not for the most physically fit or capable but for the more intelligent and spiratually attuned of the slaves for they were the only ones that were of any real interest to him buying the most promising slaves if able he then procedes to meet his sire.