_ Worn only
by persons of the highest rank. The Sultan presented Lord Nelson after
the battle of the Nile with an aigrette of diamonds.]
[Footnote 74: page 211.--_ To send him the whole of the next course._
These compliments from the tables of the great are not uncommon in
the East. When at the head-quarters of the Grand Vizir at Yanina, his
Highness sent to myself and my travelling companions a course from his
table, singers and dancing girls.]
[Footnote 75: page 212.--_The golden wine of Mount Lebanon_. A most
delicious wine, from its colour, brilliancy, and rare flavour, justly
meriting this title, is made on Lebanon; but it will not, unfortunately,
bear exportation, and even materially suffers in the voyage from the
coast to Alexandria.]
[Footnote 76: page 221.--_And the company of gardeners_. These gardeners
of the Serail form a very efficient body of police.]
[Footnote 77: page 226.--Alroy retired to the bath. The bath is a
principal scene of Oriental life. Here the Asiatics pass a great portion
of their day. The bath consists of a long suite of chambers of various
temperatures, in which the different processes of the elaborate ceremony
are performed.]
[Footnote 78: page 232.
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