| James Haines McCulloh - History - 1829 - 548 pages
...aviaries, and menageries, with all the requisite offices appending to each department. The fourth and fifth divisions, were occupied by the queens and royal concubines;...extent, from the immense number of apartments requisite to the accommodation of so many females, who were all maintained in a style of sumptuous magnificence.... | |
| Frederick Crowe - Baptists - 1850 - 652 pages
...aviaries, and menageries, with all the requisite offices attached to each department. The fourth and fifth divisions were occupied by the queens and royal concubines...many females, who were all maintained in a style of sump* tuous magnificence : gardens lor their recreation, baths, and proper places for breeding geese,... | |
| Hubert Howe Bancroft - British Columbia - 1886 - 834 pages
...numerous troop of lancers, archers, and other well-disciplined troops, constituting the royal body-guard; the second was destined to the accommodation of the...recreation, baths, and proper places for breeding gcesc, that were kept for the sole purpose of furnishing feathers, with which hangings, coverings,... | |
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