326 KING boy's dress. 



sisted of a scarlet coat, a Highland kilt and 

 goat-skin purse, plaid stockings and slippers, a 

 tartan plaid sash, and lancer's cap. 



After he had been dried by his attendants, he 

 proceeded to the more important duties of dress- 

 ing himself ; and as his style of dressing was lu- 

 dicrous in the extreme, I must attempt a descrip- 

 tion of it. A blue handkerchief was first tied 

 round the loins, covering the right leg : over this 

 was placed a striped shirt, then a pair of Turkish 

 trousers, and then the plaid stockings and slip- 

 pers (the Turkish trousers completely concealing 

 them). He next put on his scarlet coat, the waist- 

 band of the trousers covering the lower part of it ; 

 over the trousers the goat-skin, while the plaid 

 scarf was thrown over the left shoulder. On his 

 head he placed a red worsted cap, on which the 

 lancer's cap was fixed. Through a Serjeant's 

 sash, and a goat-skin round his middle, he thrust 

 an old cutlass and one pistol. And this grotesque 

 dress, contrasted with his sable features, had the 

 effect of making him appear, to the eye of a Eu- 

 ropean, the most ridiculous of objects — a curious 

 compound of vanity and absurdity. 



While this was going forward, the mate kept 

 up a constant fire with the swivels, and we ap- 



