The causes of this are his great extravagance in clothes and jewellery, his numerous wives, servants, horses, camels, and elephants, etc.

I was told that the prince has forty wives, about a thousand servants and soldiers, a hundred horses, fifty camels, and twenty elephants.
On the following morning the Rajah sent to inquire how the excursion had pleased us, and presented me with confectionery, sweetmeats, and the rarest fruits; among others, grapes and pomegranates, which at this time of the year are scarce.

They came from Cabul, which is about 700 miles distant from this place.
Finally, I must mention that for many years no one has died in the palace which the Rajah occupies.

The reason of this is said to be the following:--"One of the rulers of this palace once asked a Brahmin what would become of the soul of any one who died in the palace.

The Brahmin answered that it would go to heaven.