South America - A General History And Collection Of Voyages And Travels - Volume 7 - By Robert Kerr
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The sultan of Cambay maintains a force of 20,000 horse. Every morning
fifty men riding on elephants repair - Page 135
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The sultan of Cambay maintains a force of 20,000 horse.

Every morning fifty men riding on elephants repair to his palace to reverence and salute the king, which is done likewise by the elephants kneeling down. As soon as the king wakes in the morning there is a prodigious noise of drums, trumpets, and other warlike instruments of music, as if in token of joy that the sultan still lives. The same is done while he is at dinner, when likewise the elephants are again brought forward to do him reverence. We shall afterwards have occasion to notice the customs, docility, and wisdom of these beasts. The sultan has his upper lip so large and gross that he sometimes beareth it up with a fillet as women do their hair. His beard is white and hangs down below his girdle. He has been accustomed to the use of poison even from his infancy, and he daily eats some to keep him in use; by which strange custom, although he feels no personal hurt therefrom, yet is he so saturated with poison that he is a certain poison to others. Insomuch that when he is disposed to put any noble to death, he causes the victim to be brought into his presence and to stand before him while he chews certain fruits called _Chofolos_[61] resembling nutmegs, chewing at the same time the leaves of a certain herb named _Tambolos_, to which is added the powder of oyster shells.

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