SPLENDID ENTERTAINMENT, 
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tertainment, to which we were expressly invited. 
Our host was about five-and-thirty years of age ; he 
had a tall commanding person , was remarkably cour- 
teous in his manners, and of easy, unembarrassed 
address. Like most persons of his race, he was 
extremely fond of show, living in a state of almost 
princely magnificence. In the evening, when we 
reached his abode, we were ushered into a room 
almost^ entirely panelled with English looking-glasses, 
in gorgeously gilded frames, extending nearly from the 
top to the bottom of the apartment, and so mul- 
tiplying its extent, that it appeared all but inter- 
minable. The rich Mahomedans frequently live in 
great splendour, spending large sums of money upon 
the furniture and decorations of their houses, in 
which, however, there is much less of comfort than 
of magnificence. How strikingly do they , confirm 
the wise saying of a Hindoo philosopher! — Riches 
amount to just as much as is bestowed in gifts or en- 
joyed ; the rest goes to others.” 
By the time the room was filled, it seemed to con- 
tain a crowd as numerous as Satan’s newly raised 
Pandemonium. 
As bees 
In spring-time, when the sun with Taurus rides, 
Pour forth their populous youth about the hive 
In clusters, they among fresh dews and flowers 
Fly to and fro, or on the smoothed plank, 
The suburb of their straw-built citadel. 
New rubb’d with balm, expatiate and confer 
Their state affairs — so thick the busy crowd 
Swarm’d and were straiten’d. 
After a variety of embracings, sprinklings with rose- 
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