1 HOUSEHOLD AMD atOIMUB OP IHE GREAT.
2 vtrsfi^oni but what must be uii|Med in mcMt'coBDtriet, by the par*
3 ticukr temper of the great man, andtlie degree of d^endence of the
4 Tisitor. The manners of the great are mild and iphua^ Mld^ «t- the
5 same time, dignified and manly. The officers I have mentMMtd m
6 dressed like [gentlemen of the country, and their appearance improves
7 as thtMr statiiiii is nearei- tiic reception room ; hut, the other attends
8 ants are tar trom showy : and the great ill Caubul, seem w be averse
9 to parade, and to pique themselves- more on the order and silence of
10 their attendants, than on their mniiber or the splendour of their
11 appearance. In like manner, when they go out, their followers are
12 by no means numerous ; but are marshalled wah greui legidaritv, and
13 march in silence and irood (^rder. In India, the cominfj of a great
14 man may be known wiiiie he is a mile off, by the siiouiing of his
15 attendants, the blowing of trumpets, and beating of drums ; and,
16 though iiis retinue is very picturesque, from tlie number of men on
17 tbot and horseback who compose it, the rapidity and confusion <yf th^r
18 movements, the lively ooloura of tfcteir dieaaes* the shining of their
19 arms, and the gUtlerof diestalidmEdacf idothof gold i^id^
20 with them i yet, iioditag can give »lfl8i Iddi o£ diadpUne and
21 In Otabul, on tfaecoatraty, a nobleman udunts liia liprae» «nd ti
22 Alighted, and ahnoat in the room, ht&te ywL hAfe notice of liii
23 approodi.
24 The aeiranla in A^jliainuetaun are lemarkafale fof activity and
25 ildelity. They do- eveiy sort of iroik with cfaeeifalne88| attend their
26 master momited and wdl armed when he troika* And -Arfe ^ften
27 truited widk his moat important 8ei»el& Their maalen aend diem
28 with the mpit ooofi'dential meaaagea, without taking anj ipiecaiitabn»
29 but that'of providing for their being beilieved by the person to wiioai
30 they ne sent. For thia purpose, the master givea his ring, or some
31 other article which is generally about his own person, or else instnsbis
32 the servant to allude to some indiffercsit matter, th^ is only known
33 to his master and the person to whom the ineisage is to be delivered.
34 For eiample, a servant begins bis Jnessag^, with saying: If you