ABSTRACT

[185/1] As soon as our Raulin patron saw that most of the guards were already paying the debt of their debauch in its usual form, and that the rest were also under its influence in proportion to the quantity they had drunk, he left the table and had it cleared. We then set out on our journey, each man carrying his own luggage on his shoulders. At the gate we encountered two guards, who, under the influence of the liquor, of which they had had a share, were more cheerful than usual and so let us by with many sumbayas or reverences and somewhat incoherent speeches, in which they absolved us from all the suspicion we had aroused at our entrance.