text: ) and in the presence of the court and royal family! The embarrassment of poor Najef-Kooli at the _morne silence_ preserved which he interpreted as a sign of displeasure is amusingly described till on touching one of the figures "he fell down and I observed that he was dead; and my brothers and Fraser Sahib laughed loudly and said 'These people are not dead but are all of them artificial figures of white wax