Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 edition. Excerpt: ... were, he had never seen their like. He even counted the needles one by one, and assigned them their respective owners in the harim. The principal favor which I had to beg of him was to allow me to navigate the river to some distance, and having granted my request, he dismissed me very graciously. Here are ground plans of the houses of the sultan and kegh A. House Of Sultan.--a. Great Court-yard. 6. Second Court-yard, about 100 feet long by 30 wide. c. Third Court-yard. d. Inner Court-yard, with shed and throne, e. Boom of Sultan, f. Stabling. B. House Of Klghamma.--1. Large Court. 2. Staircase leading to the upper apartments. 3. Court-yard. 4. Second Court-yard. 5. Room of Keghamma, with two couches, that in the background being raised abovo the floor. 6. Shed built of mats and poles in front of the palace. 7. Caoutchouc-tree. 8. Mosque or " Dabaldema," shaded by some fan-palms, or, as the people of Lo gon say, "gururu." Yusuf, or, as the people of Logon say, Y'suf (this is the name of the present sultan), is a tall, stout, and well-built man, appar THE SULTAN Y'SUF. 447 ently about forty years of age, with large features and a rather melancholy expression of countenance, which I attribute to his peculiar and precarious political situation, being the ruler of a small kingdom placed between two predominant neighbors, who harass him incessantly. He has been sultan about nineteen years, and was a young man at the time of Denham's visit, when his father Sale and his elder brother 'Abd el Kerim shared or rather disputed the government with each other. He had two more elder brothers of the names of Chiroma and Marufi, both of whom died before him. Just at or shortly before the beginning of his reign, as it would seem, owing to an expedition...