Camp II Campaign. other horsemen. The body of the camp is possessed by the stately tents or pavilions of the vizier or general, rais effendi or chancellor, khaija or steward, the tesserdar bashaw or lord treasurer, and kapissar kahia-feer or master of the ceremonies. In the middle of these tents is a spacious field, wherein are erected a building for the divan, and a hafna or treasury. When the ground is marked out for a camp, all wait for the pitching of the tent lailac, the place where the courts of justice are held; it being the disposition of this that is to regulate all the rest.
The Arabs still live in camps, as the ancient Scenites did. The camp of the Assyne Emir, or king of the country about Tadmor, is described by a traveller who viewed it, as spread over a very large plain, and possessing so vast a space, that though he had the advantage of a rising ground, he could not see the utmost extent of it. His own tent was near the middle; scarce distinguishable from the rest, except that it was bigger, being made, like the others, of a sort of haircloth.