Excerpt from The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Vol. 4 of 6: Carefully Revised, and Occasionally Corrected From the Arabic, To Which Is Added, a Selection of New Tales, Also, an Introduction and Notes, Illustrative of the Religion, Manners and Customs, of the MahummedansThe queen's guards, clothed in purple uniform, and well armed and mounted, marched to the num ber of a thousand in four files, with their sabres drawn, and every one of their Officers, as they pass ed by the shop, saluted the old man. Then followed a like number of eunuchs, habited in brocaded silk.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.