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made up of sugar outlined in various bright colours. Horses singly and in groups, domestic and untamed, then take their place, all modelled in the same material, and are followed by clever representations of every known animal—buffaloes, dogs, tigers, leopards, etc., each most truthfully portrayed. More mounds of peaches, pears, melons, and other fruits then pass by, with variegated sweetmeats devised in numerous fantastic forms and in bewildering succession. Each bearer, conscious of his individual importance, solemnly carries his silver tray gracefully draped with the pink embroidered gauze in the orthodox manner that long usage has ordained for this performance. As the procession wends its way through the rabble attracted by this tempting display the remarks made by these onlookers are amusingly expressive, some with glistening eyes and longing looks naming audibly and unctuously each separate delectable as it passes so close within their grasp. But to the traveller the mind instinctively turns to a parched land in another continent, where, on a limestone