[293] The finery of a modern Moorish grandee is thus described by Mr. Hay: “The Basha was reclining on a rich carpet, supported by round velvet cushions, embroidered in gold. He was dressed in a pale green caftan, over which was a fine muslin robe. He had wide trousers, of a light-coloured yellow cloth. His girdle was of red leather, embroidered in silk, with a silver clasp. He wore on his head the common Fez cap, circled by a white turban, and over all fell a transparent haïk of the finest texture. In his hand he held a rosary. His manners were graceful and gentlemanly, and a pleasant smile gave an agreeable expression to his features. The father of this potentate was Basha over half the empire, and proved a good friend to the English during the war on the Peninsula, when we depended much on West Barbary for the supply of our armies, and also of our fleets in the neighbouring seas.”--_Western Barbary_, p. 110. [294] The rule laid down by Pliny may be observed in the two groups in the Alhambra. Selection of colour, and _representation_ of colour are different things, which if Fuseli had perceived, he would not have given himself the trouble to show that Pliny did not understand what he spoke about. CHAPTER IV. A BOAR-HUNT. We thought we might now dispense with the precautions to secure our property before going to rest, to which we had been hitherto constrained; but were surprised, while making our beds, at the sheik’s entering with a heavy chain to secure our fowling-pieces round the tent-pole. Intending to convey a compliment, we resisted; but he got angry. He did not understand suspicion of his Turks, and understood nothing else of any other people. The chain for picketing our horses would have served for the anchor of a boat of ten tons. Every horse is secured with iron: there is either a shackle to two feet or a chain to one leg; the end under the master’s pillow, although in the inside of a circle, which no one can enter without passing through a tent or between two, in each of which there is at least one dog. One lives thus in constant extremes. The same person is at one moment the object of affection and confidence, at another of fear and suspicion. The Arab lives in the full glare of the light of the passions; as he is a statue in his figure, so is he an epic in his mind. It is not only not base to rob, but, as one of them expressed it, “to carry off a horse is a sign of being a man;” yet this man was trusty as a sword, and faithful as a dog. So the basis of all law resides in contract--not the “contract social,” of Jean Jacques, but the real word of man, surely known and truly pledged--in a word, the third commandment. This contract is contained in the salutation. The “salem alillum” is a preliminary and a question. “Is there peace?”--on the affirmative, the salutation follows.[295] The Turk has converted into a distinction between creeds that which was the parley on the approach of two disciplined bodies.