And he will also do good work and a deal of it to get a gun added to the salute allowed him by the British Government.
Every year the Empress distributes knighthoods and adds guns for public services done by native princes.

The salute of a small prince is three or four guns; princes of greater consequence have salutes that run higher and higher, gun by gun,--oh, clear away up to eleven; possibly more, but I did not hear of any above eleven-gun princes.

I was told that when a four-gun prince gets a gun added, he is pretty troublesome for a while, till the novelty wears off, for he likes the music, and keeps hunting up pretexts to get himself saluted.

It may be that supremely grand folk, like the Nyzam of Hyderabad and the Gaikwar of Baroda, have more than eleven guns, but I don't know.
When we arrived at the bungalow, the large hall on the ground floor was already about full, and carriages were still flowing into the grounds.
The company present made a fine show, an exhibition of human fireworks, so to speak, in the matters of costume and comminglings of brilliant color.

The variety of form noticeable in the display of turbans was remarkable.