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in front concealed his feet and the lower part of his body 
from view. Below the arches on each side of the hall, the 
courtiers were seen, some prostrate, others sitting in silence 
and cross-legged like a parcel of taylors on a shop-board. 
The General was led up with much ceremony and gravity 
by the Adigar, and the next chief officer present, and 
placed along with the Adigar on the uppermost step of the 
throne. 
Although the rest of the hall was well lighted, that part 
where the King sat was contrived to be made more obscure 
than the rest, with a view of impressing a greater awe on 
those who approached him. He was in appearance a young 
man, very black, with a light beard. He was by no means 
so portly or well-looking as the Adigar and several other 
of the officers around him. He was dressed in a robe of 
very fine muslin embroidered with gold, fitted close at the 
breast with several folds drawn round the waist, and flow- 
ing down from thence like a lady’s gow'n. His arms were bare 
from the elbov r s downwards. On his fingers he wore a num- 
ber of very broad rings set with precious stones of different 
sorts, while a number of gold chains were suspended round 
his neck over a stiff frilled piece of muslin resembling a 
Queen Elizabeth’s ruff. His head was covered with a tur- 
ban of muslin spangled with gold, and surmounted by a 
crown of gold, an ornament by which he is distinguished 
from all the other Asiatick princes, who are prohibited by 
their religion from wearing this badge of royalty, and whose 
