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merable. For himself, his women, Ministers, 

 European Gentlemen of his suit, and visitors, 

 double sets of tents were sent off, of large di- 

 mensions. Some with extensive enclosures, 

 made of cloth and bamboos, about seven feet 

 high, forming a kind of wall round each tent, 

 of a hundred yards or more in circumference. 



In the rainy season, or whenever the 

 ground was damp or wet, square wooden ta- 

 bles with feet about ten inches high, and four 

 feet diameter, made to fit close to one another, 

 were placed in the tents, forming 1 a floor 

 which covered the whole space within; on 

 these, carpets were spread, which made them 

 perfectly dry and comfortable. 



A market accompanied, them supplied with 

 every article the country afforded, consisting 

 of from forty to sixty thousand persons, or per- 

 haps more, * who carried their grain and mer- 



* The reader may well be surprised at the immense 

 number; yet he may be assured that I am not dealing 



