Muslim Galley Slaves Receiving Food

A cook stirs a cauldron and distributes food to a group of Islamic galley slaves; the cook himself belongs to this group. Some of them sit on the ground eating. These enslaved men are identifiable as Muslims by the characteristic hairstyle (shaved head except for a tuft) which they were required to have. To the right, two sailors in conversation with a papasso (moollah and representative of the enslaved Muslims).