lettre de créance, credentials

Page 119. — I. ordinaire {daily) meals,

2. doigt, here, drop. The finger was an ancient measure, the fourth part of the palm of the hand.

3. I'Escurial, a famous building in Spain, containing a monastery, palace, church, and mausoleum of Spanish kings; celebrated for its paintings and library. So called from the name of the place {La Escorial) where it stands 27 miles out of Madrid.

4. où le bât me blessait, where the shoe pinched; lit., " where the packsaddle hurt.'*

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Page 120. — I. Pilpay, or Bidpay, This appears to have been, not the name of a famous Indian fabulist, but an appellation given to the chief pandit or court^ scholar of an Indian prince.