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ment, or that part of the palace where it 1s ; there is another 
called Jan Bet, or the elephant’s houfe, that gives the name to 
another regiment; another called Werk Sacala, or the gold 
houfe, which gives its name to another corps; and fo on with 
the reft ; as for the horfe, I have {poken of them already. 
THERE are four regiments, that feldom, if ever, a- 
mounted to 1600 men, which depend alone upon the king, 
-and are all foreigners, at leaft the officers; thefe have the 
charge of his perfon while in the field. In times when the 
king is out of leading-itrings, they amount to four or five 
thoufand, and then opprefs the country, for they have great 
privileges. At times when the king’s hands are weak, they 
are kept incomplete out of fear and jealoufy, which was 
the cafe in my time ;—thefe have been already fufficiently 
defcribed. 
THREE proclamations are made before the king marches. 
The firft is, “ Buy your mules, get ready your provifion, 
and pay your fervants, for, after fuch a day, they that feek 
me here fhall not find me.” The fecond is about a week 
after, or according as the exigency is prefling; this is, “ Cut 
down the kantuffa in the four quarters of the world, for 
Ido not know where Iam going.” This kantuffa is a ter- 
rible thorn which very much molefts the king and nobility 
in their march, by taking hold of their long hair, and the 
cotton.cloth they are wrapped in. The third and laft pro- 
clamation is, “lam encamped upon the Angrab, or Kahha; 
“ he that does not join methere, I will chaftife him for 
** feven years.” I was long in doubt what this term of fe- 
ven years meant, till I recollectedthe jubilee-year of the Jews, 
with 
