ABSTRACT
In the meanwhile, we were treated with almost royal honours. A guard of honour had orders to attend us wherever we should go, on foot or on horseback, outside the gates of the Serai; and the inhabitants of the town, little inclined as Arabs are to show respect to persons, were constrained to stand up as we passed in the streets, a rather tiresome piece of ceremony to us, who would rather have made friends with them. We felt inclined to say, en bons princes-"Thank you, good people, for your loyalty, but do sit down."
