The cut and colour of their garments are also varied in the extreme.
Dick's dress consisted of a steel cap, with a drooping plume of red horsehair, and a red tunic with a blue sash.

Over it was worn a skirt of linked mail which, with leggings fitting tightly, completed the costume.

Surajah had a red turban, a jerkin of quilted leather, with iron scales fastened on to protect the shoulders and chest.

A scarlet kilt hung to his knees, and his legs were enclosed in putties, or swathes, of coarse cloth, wound round and round them.

He wore a blue and gold girdle.
Dick laughed as he surveyed the appearance of himself and Surajah.
"We are a rum-looking couple," he said, "but I have seen plenty of men, just as gaudy, in the train of some of the rajahs who visited the camp when we were up here.