It is a complicated game, and I believe it is said that nobody can learn to play it well--but an Indian.

And I was not able to learn how to wind a turban.

It seemed a simple art and easy; but that was a deception.

It is a piece of thin, delicate stuff a foot wide or more, and forty or fifty feet long; and the exhibitor of the art takes one end of it in his hands, and winds it in and out intricately about his head, twisting it as he goes, and in a minute or two the thing is finished, and is neat and symmetrical and fits as snugly as a mould.
We were interested in the wardrobe and the jewels, and in the silverware, and its grace of shape and beauty and delicacy of ornamentation.

The silverware is kept locked up, except at meal-times, and none but the chief butler and the prince have keys to the safe.