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I then proceeded to the hummaum of his Excellency, which had 
been prepared for me. It consists of two rooms at the back of a 
very beautiful garden-pavilion, with, as usual, a bason of water in 
front. They are heated by flues under the floor. The first room is 
about twenty feet square, with three fountains for either hot or cold 
.water, in oblong niches on three sides of the room. On the fourth 
side is the entrance into the inner-room. At each corner is a 
pillar, from which arches spring that sustain the roof, which gradu- 
ally narrows into a cupola. The whole is covered with fine white 
chunam, ornamented with black, to correspond with the floor, 
which is entirely of white marble, inlaid with a mosaic work of black 
and red. Here I completely undressed, and wrapped round my 
middle a piece of red linen. I was then assisted by two men into the 
other room, where the heat was so great as at first to take away my 
breath. This was similar in construction, except that in front was 
a bason elevated five feet from the ground filled with warm water, 
and on the right was another such in the floor; the fountains were 
playing into the middle of the room, and being a httle cooler than 
the floor, were very agreeable. The whole was built of red por- 
phyry to the height of a few feet from the ground ; the rest, of a 
red stone. Eight fellows, in colour somewhat resmbling the mar- 
ble, and covered only with a cloth, now commenced their oper- 
ations. They laid me on the floor, rubbed my feet with pumice- 
stone, kneaded all my limbs, and rubbed me with mohair-bags on 
their hands till every pore was cleansed from the soil contracted in 
the journey. I next was rubbed with a composition of clay, and 
then with a perfumed oil, both of which were sent by his Excellency, 
with every article of silver, basons, kc. as used by himself. The 
