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Around the area from the Kathisma lie hills of brick and marble enough to build the Palace as yet hid in my Lord's dreams, and a mosque to becomingly house our Mohammedan religion. Besides accommodating one hundred thousand spectators, it was the most complete building for the purposes of its erection ever known.
He did not resort to the Kathisma, but kept his saddle, with a bodyguard of horsemen at his back. His mount was my gray Arab.... We began with volting, demi-volting, jumping, wheeling in retreat, throwing the horse. Orchan was a fumbler.... We took to bows next, twelve arrows each. At full speed he put two bolts in the target, and I twelve, all in the white ring.... Then spear against cimeter.
A lesser building rises above the boxes which is said to have been a palace called the Kathisma, from which the Emperor looked down upon the various amusements of the people, such as chariot racing, and battles between the Blue and Green factions.
He is even accredited with an intention of one day taking the field against my Lord this when his father, the old Orchan, dies.... When I entered the Hippodrome one day last week, Orchan the younger occupied the arena before the Kathisma. The boxes were well filled with spectators.
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