ed Moorish charms, dearly purchased, and
enclosed in small square cases of gold, silver, and curious
embroidery. Some wore necklaces reaching to the waist,
entirely of aggry beads; a band of gold and beads encircled
the knee, from which several strings of the same depended;
small circlets of gold, like guineas, rings, and casts of
animals were strung round their ankles; their sandals were
of green, red and delicate white leather; manillas, and rude
lumps of rock gold hung from their left wrists, which were so
heavily laden as to be supported on the head of one of their
handsomest boys.... [The king] wore a fillet of aggry beads
round his temples, a necklace of gold cockspur shells strung
by their larger ends, and over his right shoulder a red silk
cord, suspending three sapphires cased in gold; his bracelets
were of the richest mixtures of beads and gold, and his
fingers covered with rings; his cloth was of a dark green
silk, a pointed diadem was elegantly painted in white on
his forehead; also a pattern resembling an epaulette on each
shoulder, and an ornament like a full blown rose, one leaf
rising above another until it covered his whole breast.... The
belts of the guards behind his chair were cased in gold, and
covered with small jaw-bones of the same metal; the elephants'
tails, waving like a small cloud before him, were spangled
with gold, and large plumes of feathers were flourished among
them. His eunuch presided over these attendants, wearing only
one massive piece of gold about his neck; the royal stool,
entirely cased in gold, was displayed under a splendid
umbrella, with drums, sankos, horns, and various musical
instruments, cased in gold, about the thickness of cartridge
paper; large circles of gold hung by scarlet cloth from the
swords of state;... hatchets of the same were intermixed with
them; the breasts of the Ochras and various attendants were
adorned with large stars, stools, crescents, and gossamer
wings of solid gold.[165]

It is not surprising that the characteristically sexual method of
display and emotional appeal should be associated with the earlier
efforts at adjustment, both in the individual and in the state. This
method is based on the instincts, and just as inhibition and brain
legislation follow the instincts in point of development, a rational
mode of co