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to cover us a^ain with others of white chap. 
° II. 
satin, still more sumptuous than before. Next '■ ■»-■ ■ * 
they brought coffee, in golden cups studded 
with diamonds ; and the mantles were once 
more taken away. After this, there came 
slaves kneeling before us with burning odours 
in silver censers, which they held beneath our 
noses; and finally, a man, passing rapidly 
round, bespattered our faces, hands, and clothes, 
with rose-water — a compliment so little ex- 
pected at the time, and so zealously admini- 
stered, that we began to wipe from our eyes the 
honours which had almost blinded us. The 
principal dragoman belonging to the Governor 
next presented to each of us an embroidered 
handkerchief; " gifts," he said, " by which 
Injidels of rank were always distinguished in 
their interviews with his Master." The hand- 
kerchief consisted of embroidered muslin, and 
was inclosed in a piece of red crape. These 
presents we in vain solicited permission to 
the house where he had supped. (Ejng. 57. lih.\\\\.') It was also 
euttomary in the East to change their robes at feasts. The master of 
the house gave one to each of his guests : none were to appear without 
it. Thus, in the Parable of the Marriage Feast {Matt, xxii.), the guest 
who had it not was driven out by order of the king who gave the feast ; 
not being found worthy of admittance there, no garment having beeiv 
given to him, as to the otliers. See D'Arnays Life of the RomatUy 
;>. 118. Loncf. 1764. 
