Its effect is to produce a feeling of repose and contentment.

You will get to like it, in time." "Possibly I may," Roger replied; "although at present, that hardly seems probable." The music now struck up a more lively air.

Presently a number of young men and women, who had been feasting in another apartment, came in and performed several graceful dances, to the accompaniment of the music; singing, as they did so, a sort of chant, which reminded Roger of those he had so often heard in the churches at home.
When all was over the ambassadors withdrew, saying that, doubtless, their guests would wish to enjoy a siesta during the heat of the day.

Some slaves led the way into another apartment, in which was a couch heaped with soft rugs, and here Roger threw himself down.
"Was there ever an English boy in so strange a strait as mine ?" he said to himself.

"What an extraordinary people! Gold seems as plentiful with them as common pottery with us; and as to the magnificence of their dresses, I verily believe that the court of King Harry would make but a poor show beside them.