Meanwhile the Interpreter showed them how to put on the lamba--with one end of it thrown over the left shoulder, like the Spaniard's cloak,--and then conducted them to the palace, where they found three palanquins--or chairs supported by two staves--awaiting them. Getting into them they set off, preceded by the Interpreter in a similar conveyance. Ebony and his bearers brought up the rear.

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