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70 fairly off, began to pace the deck rapidly, but in ten minutes or so slackened his speed, and finally seating himself beside his companion, beckoned to one of the attending Ganymedes to approach. "Without a moment's delay, three small youths rose from the lowly position they had assumed on the ground, and advanced towards their young lord, bowing most humbly, although, in consequence of the motion of the vessel, this act of obeisance was performed in a somewhat uncertain and tottering manner. As they knelt before the prince, after putting their hands before their faces as though in the act of prayer, the first held before him a tumpat syrée, a kind of salver, or box of brass, fitted up with numerous small partitions, and filled with no end of things unknown to me ; the second a small brass vessel, shaped something like an urn, containing kapor, made from the ashes of burnt shells, which, being moistened with water, is then left to harden; the third a brass tray, richly embossed, on which