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only clothing was a cotton shirt, of the manufacture of 
the country. Behind the throne were fourteen or 
fifteen eunuchs, clothed in rich stuffs of various kinds 
and all manner of colours. The space in front was 
filled with petitioners and spectators, to the number of 
more than fifteen hundred. A kind of hired eulogist 
THE RUINS OF SIWAH. 
stood on the monarch’s left hand, crying out at the top 
of his voice during the whole ceremony, ‘ See the 
buffalo, the son of a buffalo, the powerful Sultan Abd- 
el-Raschman El-rashid. May God protect thy life, 0 
master, may God assist thee and render thee victorious.’ ” 
The sultan promised justice to Browne, and put 
