chap. xiv. INVITATION TO A FETE AT THE PALACE. 
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came to know when I should he ready to take the likeness. I 
took him into the room to see the camera and the chemicals, 
&c., and told him that one bottle was missing, but that as 
soon as I was ready I would inform the prince. After break¬ 
fast the queen’s secretary came to let me know that there 
would he a ball or dance, in the presence of the queen, on 
the following day, and that I was invited to be present. He 
said the queen was pleased with my visit; and he inquired 
when I should begin with the likenesses, as both the prince 
and princess proposed to come on Friday, and he hoped I 
should be ready then. 
While we were talking, one of the chief officers of the 
palace came and asked me to go and see his wife, who was an 
invalid. I accompanied him to his residence, a nice comfort¬ 
able two-storied house, built of wood, with sleeping rooms 
up-stairs. Soon after our arrival his wife, attended by a 
female domestic, came down stairs into the pleasant, neatly- 
furnished room in which we were waiting. After a short con¬ 
versation, I said I thought I had some medicine that would 
afford her relief; and as the chief returned with me, I gave 
him a supply for her use. The friends who visited me in the 
evening were equally astonished and delighted with this 
chief’s coming to me. Later in the day he brought me a 
turtle as a present, and said he would come and live in a 
house very near, in order that I might see his wife often. 
On Thursday, September 18th, I was early at work with 
my camera, but was obliged to leave off, as I expected a 
messenger from the palace. Soon after twelve I was sent for, 
and followed the messenger. The road to the palace was 
literally thronged, and the walls of the enclosures round the 
houses were surmounted by the heads and shoulders of people 
standing inside, two or three deep, chiefly of women in holi¬ 
day costume. The roofs of the buildings overlooking the 
palace-yard were also thronged with spectators. 
