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tues. Rising at break of day, lie always employed his first hour in 

 reading the Koran; how far i(s religion and morality influenced 

 his life, is evident from these unconnected memoirs. He then 

 gave audience to the civil and military officers who had particular 

 business to transact ; and before breakfast visited the jamdar 

 khana, or treasury, containing his jewels, gold and silver ornaments 

 and utensils, curious arms, and new mechanical inventions, on 

 which he lavished large sums; but his museums and coilections 

 are said more to have resembled the heterogeneous mixtures of 

 Asuph-ul-Dowlah, at Lucknow, than the valuable deposits of the 

 Mogul emperors in their days of splendour. — After breakfast, 

 arrayed in rich apparel, he gave public audience, and sometimes 

 administered justice, reviewed the troops, hunted with the cheta, 

 or superintended the arsenals; these and similar pursuits generally 

 employed the succeeding hours in his capital. In camp, or severe 

 marches, no soldier in his army could bear more fatigue : war was 

 his delight, and every thing tending to it engaged his first conside- 

 ration. 



Among the chief curiosities in his treasury and wardrobe, were 

 the arms and war-dreSses ; some of the latter formed complete 

 suits of armour, in chain-work, and other heavy encumbrances for 

 man and horse, of more shew than use. Among the articles of a 

 war-dress sent to the Duke of York was one of the sultaun's tur- 

 bans, (perhaps more of a helmet) which had been dipped in the 

 sacred fountain of Zum-Zum at Mecca, and on that account was 

 supposed to be invulnerable : this was called a tuburrook, or holy 

 gift. Altogether the jewels, treasure, and valuables, which the 

 eastern sovereigns have laid up in store, from the days of Solomon 



