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Updated: May 1, 2025
From the villages the people came out to meet him, and here and there from some castle of a greater importance a chieftain would ride out with his bodyguard, gay in velvets, and silks from Bokhara and chogas of gold kinkob, and offer to him gold dust twisted up in the petal of a flower, which he touched and remitted.
Perhaps the most important manufacture of the place is kimkhwab kinkob as it is called by Europeans cloth made of silver and gold tissue, in which the princes and grandees of India array themselves on state occasions.
The extraordinary beauty of the inlaying of shells, mother-of-pearl, crystal, and precious stones of every color, the splendor of the gilding, and the elegance of the costly kinkob curtains with which it is hung, combine to render this one of the most striking and beautiful objects to be seen on the Meinam.
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