P. 95. El Maraboot is a kind of fort, and the tomb of a saint, situated on a high ground in the neighbourhood of the Gulf of the Arabs, a good view of which it commands.
No. VI.
Explanation of the Plate facing page 286.
1. The principal inclosure, consisting of apartments exclusively appropriated to the use of the monarch.
2. Principal rukkûba, or place of public audience.
3. The large court where public audiences are given.
4. Two gates, the one of the interior, the other of the great court; at both stand slaves, to refuse admittance when the Monarch is not in the humour to do justice; and the chief of them, to strike the greater awe, is the public executioner.
5. Exterior court in which the public officers leave their horses, and thence walk barefoot to the presence of their master.
6. External entrance, fronting the market-place.