text: " Thus at the hareem of Habeeb Effendi the ex-governor of Cairo she was received at the door of the first apartment on dismounting from the "high ass" on which all visits of ceremony must be paid by the eldest daughter of the house who herself disencumbered her of her riding-dress--an office left to slaves in families of rank except in the case of a visitor of high distinction--and was then placed by her on the divan at the right hand of her mother the first cousin of the late Sultan Mahmood