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CYPRUS. 
After thus endeavouring to m^.ke us feel our 
inferiority, he next strove to dazzle our senses 
with his splendour and greatness. Having 
clapped his hands', a swarm of attendants, 
most magnificently dressed, came into the room, 
bearing gilded goblets filled with lemonade 
and sorbet, which they presented to us. A 
high priest of the Dervishes then entered, and 
prostrated himself before the Governor, touching 
his lips with his fingers, crossing his hands upon 
his breast, and raising his thumbs afterwards to 
his ears. All these marks of reverence ended, 
he rose and took his station upon the divan, 
on the left side of the Governor. Next came 
a fresh party of slaves, bringing long pipes of 
jasmine ivoocl with amher heads, to all the party; 
these were suddenly followed by another host 
of myrmidons in long white vests, having white 
turbans on their heads, who covered us with 
magnificent mantles of sky-blue silk, bespangled 
and embroidered with gold". They also pre- 
sented to us preserved fruits and other sweet- 
meats ; snatching away the embroidered mantles. 
(1) This method of summoning slaves to the presence of their 
master is common ail over the Turkish empire. 
(2) Amonj? the Romans, the master of the house often piqued 
himself upon furnishing his guests with magnificent habits. They 
consisted of a kind of loose mantles, like those of Cyprus. Martial 
reproaches Luscus with having more than once carried off two from 
the 
