text: " And here was a little bantam kingdom not much bigger than the irate republic having its separate sultan with full-mounted establishment of peacock's feathers white elephants Moorish eunuchs armies cymbals dulcimers and all kinds of music tormentors and executioners; whilst his majesty crowed defiance across the ocean to all other kings rajahs soldans kesars "flowery" emperors and "golden-feet " east or west be the same more or less; and really with some reason