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Rh was a quantity of betel nuts, ready for chewing, neatly enveloped in the leaf of the betel.

The prince, who was probably in a fanciful mood, in consequence of the rolling of the Oenarang, preferred making his own buyéra—as the Spanish in Manilla call the preparation—and motioned his friend to help himself, who, to save himself the trouble of making any, took one of those on the tray.

Neither of these royal personages remained long en grande tenne. Followed by three or four valets, they retired to their respective cabins, though certainly not more than one at a time could have entered the limited space at their disposal, to assist their masters in the operation of re-dressing. In less than ten minutes they reappeared, stripped of their finery, and apparently much more at ease in their new dress, which, if less costly than the former, exhibited considerable variety of colour. A loose silk jacket of rainbow tints, a long baték