APPENDIX. 
495 
No. VL 
Explanation of the Plate facing page 286. 
1. The principal inclofure, confifting of apartments exclu- 
iively appropriated to the ufe of the monarch. 
2. Principal rukkuba, or place of public audience. 
3. The large court where public audiences are given. 
4. Two gates, the one of the interior, the other of the 
great court ; at both ftand flaves, to refufe admittance when the 
Monarch is not in the humour to do juftice ; and the chief of 
them, to ftrike the greater awe, is the public executioner. 
5. Exterior court in which the public officers leave their 
horfes, and thence walk barefoot to the prefence of their mafter* 
■ 6. External entrance, fronting the market-place. 
7. A court with fome apartments in it for faquirs, guards, and 
flaves. 
8. A wide court where are fome horfes tied. 
9. Rukkuba at the other entrance, where the Sultan gives 
audience, principally in winter, and where he would be lefs 
public. 
10. Small court furrounding that rukkuba or fhed. 
1 1. Outer court where a mob affembles, and horfes and flaves 
are in waiting. 
12. Outer gate, called Bab-el-burrdni, as the great one is 
called Bab-el-Gebeia. 
13. A multitude of fraall apartments reaching almofl the 
whole length of the palace, where flaves are kept in confine- 
ment, 
