Meer Hassan Ali, B.: Observations on the Mussulmauns of India: descriptive of their manners, customs, habits, and religious opinions ; made during a twelve years residence in their immediate Society (Band 1) (London, 1832)

THE RESIDENT'S PRIVILEGES. 85

morning sun, during the hottest season of the
year; in these airings, the "King alone has the
benefit of a chattah, except the Resident hap-
pens to be of the party, who being always
received as an equal, is privileged to the chat-
tah, the chowrie, and the hookha; indulgences
of which those only who have lived in India can
possibly estimate the true value.

But to my subject:—The saddle is adorned
with Hosein's chain armour, gold turban, a
richly set sword, with an embroidered belt:
some of the family and friends attend respect-
fully near the horse. Then follow the bearers
of incense, in gold and silver censers, suspended
to chains, which they wave about, fumigating
the air with the refreshing smell of lahbaun,
—a sweet-scented resin from the cedar of Le-
banon, I imagine, though some suppose it to be
the frankincense noticed in Scripture.

Next in the cavalcade is a chanter or reader
of the Musseeah, who selects passages from that
well-arranged work suited to the time when Ho-
sein's person was the mark for Yuzeed's arrows,
and which describe his conduct on the trying