_ 358 _ clothes which are placed over the lamps brought into the presence of the King. On oil, on wax for illumination and for use in the house six leques and forty-two azars. And six leques three azars on five torches which burn in the palace, and the same for the five slaves who hold them. For perfumes and other fragrances, two leques and a half and eight candils. Eighty azars on cottonwool with which they fill the mattresses and pillows. On sugar one leque and twenty azars. On water used in the household and the stables, which is brought from the mainland in barges, six leques. On clothes for himself, and on tunics which he gives to nobles and ambassadors, together with the expense of having them made, one hundred and two leques. One and a half on braid for edging the turbans he wears on his head; and fifty azars for the making of caps to protect against the cold. And on clothes for his wives, maid servants and female slaves, fifteen leques. On two festivals which his herdsmen celebrate, on which occasion he provides food for some people, four leques. Three leques on the moon-festivals in May and September, celebrated by his priests. Twenty leques on the particular occasions when the King goes hunting at a place
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