...of filk, embroidered with gold. The Carpets on the floor were twenty-two r.houP. III. thoufand. An hundred Lions were brought out, with a Keeper to each Lion. AMONG the other Spectacles of rare and flupendous luxury, was a Tree of Gold and Silver, which opened itfelf into eighteen larger branches,...

...swimming on the Tigris. Nor was the place itself less splendid, in which were hung up thirty -eight thousand pieces of tapestry, twelve thousand five...The carpets on the floor were twentytwo thousand. An hundred lions were brought out, with a keeper to each lion. Among the other spectacles of rare and...

...swimming upon the Tigris. Nor was the palace " itself less splendid, in which were hung up thirty-eight " thousand pieces of tapestry, twelve thousand five...The carpets " on the floor were twenty-two thousand. An hundred lions " were brought out, with a keeper to each lion.47 Among " the other spectacles of...

...swimming on the Tigris. Nor was the palace itself less ' splendid, in which were hung thirty-eight thousand pieces of ' tapestry, twelve thousand five...The carpets on the floor were twentytwo thousand. An hundred lions were brought out, with a keeper to each lion. Among the other spectacles of rare and...

...in which were liung thirty eight thousand pieces of tapestry ; twelve thousand five hundred of them were of silk, embroidered with gold. The carpets on the floor were twenty-two thousand. An hundred lions were brought out, with a keeper to each lion. Among the other spectacles of rare and...

...« silk embroidered with gold. The carpets on u ^ ** the floor were twenty-two thousand. Anhun" dred lions were brought out, with a keeper to " each lion.*...luxury, was a tree of gold " and silver spreading intoeighteen largebranches, " on which, and on the lesser boughs, sat a va" riety of birds made of...

...porters or door keepers were in number 700. In the palace were hung up 38,OOO pieces of tapt-stry, 12,5OO of which were of silk, embroidered with gold. The carpets on the floor were 22,OOO. An hundred lions were brought out, with a keeper to each lion. Among the other spectacles of...

...swimming upon the Tigris. Nor was the palace itself less splendid, in which were hung up thirty-eight thousand pieces of tapestry, twelve thousand five...out, with a keeper to each lion." Among the other specJ D'Herbelot, p. 530. Abulfeda, p. 154. Nivem Meccam apportavit, rem ihi aut nnnquam aut rarissime...

...seldom has even the gorgeous East seen a more splendid monarch. In his palace were hung up thirty-eight thousand pieces of tapestry, twelve thousand five...hundred of which were of silk embroidered with gold. And so with everything else ; all that wealth and fortune could do was done for this man. And yet his...

...was the palace itself less splendid, in which were hung up thirty-eight thousand pieces of tapistry, twelve thousand five hundred of which were of silk...The carpets on the floor were twenty-two thousand. An hundred lions were brought out with a keeper to each lion *. Among the other spectacles of rare...