Passing through yet another gate we found within the fence a large hut or house built on the same model as the others in the town, which Marut whispered to me was that of the king.

Behind it were smaller houses in which lived his queen and women, good-looking females, who advanced to meet him with obsequious bows.

To the right and left were two more buildings of about equal size, one of which was occupied by the royal guard and the other was the guest-house whither we were conducted.
It proved to be a comfortable dwelling about thirty feet square but containing only one room, with various huts behind it that served for cooking and other purposes.

In one of these the three camelmen were placed.

Immediately on our arrival food was brought to us, a lamb or kid roasted whole upon a wooden platter, and some green mealie-cobs boiled upon another platter; also water to drink and wash with in earthenware jars of sun-dried clay.
I ate heartily, for I was starving.