17. Stable or court where the best horses are kept tied, and sheltered from the sun.
The Eunuchs live in the interior, to be always near the Sultan; male slaves, wherever they can find a place.
18. Are the slaves’ apartments who guard the entrance.
19. A place where the faquirs read.
The officers immediately attached to the court live in small inclosures on the outside of the fence, as that marked 20.
The houses of the Meleks resemble this in miniature; those of inferior persons only of smaller size without divisions, and having fewer apartments.
The exterior is an hedge of dry thorns, about ten feet thick, and as many high.
THE END.
FOOTNOTES:
[1]Volney has considered the walls of Alexandria as of antient structure. But D’Anville had before rejected that idea, and the fragments of columns, &c. worked into the masonry, shew that he is right.