and flower offices, the Kitchen, and the Kennel. The whole 
presents an astonishing picture of magnificence and good order 
where unwieldy numbers are managed without disturbance, and 
economy is attended to in the midst of profusion, 
The following extracts may amuse :— 
OF BREAD. 
“ Bread is prepared in the pantry. The largest kind, which is 
baked in an oven, is made of ten seers of flour, five seers of milk, 
one-and-a-half seers of ghee, and one quarter of a seer of salt. 
Smaller ones are also made of this dough. Others, which are 
baked on an iron plate, are sixteen, and sometimes more, to a 
seer. There is likewise another kind called cheputy, which are 
made of Rhashkeh.” 
THE SUSYANEH ; OR TIMES FOR ABSTAINING FROM FLESH. 
“His Majesty has a great disinclination for flesh, and he 
frequently says, ‘Providence has provided variety of food for man, 
but, through ignorance and gluttony, he destroys living creatures, 
and makes his body a tomb for beasts.’ If I were not a king, I 
would leave off eating flesh at once; and now it is my intention to 
quit it by degrees.’” 
After this quotation of the Emperor’s saying, the days and times 
of abstinence are specified; which, in Akber’s case, made up one- 
fourth of the whole year. 
THE KITCHEN. 
“ The copper utensils for His Majesty’s use are tinned twice in 
a month ; and those of the princes and haram only once in that 
time. Whatever copper utensils are broken, are given to the 
braziers, who make new ones.” 
REGULATIONS FOR THE ILLUMINATIONS. 
“The palace is, however, illuminated withinside and without 
with flambeaus fixed upon poles with iron prongs. The first, 
second, and third nights of the moon, when there is but little 
