and mounted on elephants richly caparisoned.
“While the king is on his march, the officer, who is before him on the same elephant, cries
from time to time, with a loud voice, �Behold the great monarch, the potent and redoubtable sultan of the Indies, whose palace is covered with one hundred thousand rubies, and who possesses twenty thousand crowns of diamonds. Behold the monarch greater than Solomon, and the powerful Maharaja.’ After he has pronounced those words,
and mounted on elephants richly caparisoned.
“While the king is on his march, the officer, who is before him on the same elephant, cries
from time to time, with a loud voice, �Behold the great monarch, the potent and redoubtable sultan of the Indies, whose palace is covered with one hundred thousand rubies, and who possesses twenty thousand crowns of diamonds. Behold the monarch greater than Solomon, and the powerful Maharaja.’ After he has pronounced those words,
