'Travels from India to England : comprehending a visit to the Burman Empire, and a journey through Persia, Asia Minor, European Turkey, &c., in the years 1825-26, by James Edward Alexander' [‎205] (292/412)

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hand one to the Envoy, who of course very properly declined
taking it.
The 7th being the day appointed for our public audience of the
King, we proceeded on horseback and in gay apparel (with the
chackchoors, or scarlet cloth boots), attended by the escort and a large
body of servants, towards the royal tents. Before the first entrance,
in three sides of a square, was drawn up the corps of Zambooruk-
chees, or camel artillery-men, arrayed in a most fantastic uniform.
Scarlet sugar-loaf caps, with an edging of black fur, brass plate
and feather, was their head-dress, with a yellow hussar jacket, white
shulwas and boots. We dismounted and entered a receiving-tent, where
we met some of the first men of the court: the Nasukchee Bashee ;
the Nudeem-i-Shah, or companion of the King, to whom he addresses
himself in public, called by the Turkomans Bullee Bullee Khan, from
assenting to every thing His Majesty says;—the old man who figures
in Hajji Baba, under the epithet of Namurd Khan, and several
others. Here we went through the ceremony of smoking, drinking
coffee, tea, &c. After waiting some time his Majesty was announced
to be on his throne. We rose and passed through the first entrance,
the Envoy carrying the letter from the Governor-General enclosed
in silk and cloth of gold. We found all the troops in camp drawn
out in a large square, who in compliment to us were dressed in
scarlet jackets. We walked onwards, passed through the immense
tent in which was the judgment-seat, which was a small throne
adorned with pearls and precious stones, and then through the
entrance to the enclosure formed by the serai purdah. Over this,
as over the first entrance, was the favourite representation of the
hero Rustum killing the white Demon, and liberating his Sovereign
from