I want to inform you, a friend who was born there explained it to me... to help you understand the value of the young lady so desired by the general, you need to know that a woman, in those pleasant places, can be requested by the family for about ten cows and that a cow is worth about seven goats or six sheep. If small, even eight little lambs. With a simple arithmetic operation, within everyone’s reach, my friend claims that one can easily figure out how many little lambs the object of the high-ranking official's desires is worth.