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The king and his ministers were first encased 
in tightfitting stockinet shirts and drawers. They 
were then saturated with tar. a 
At this stage of the process, some one of the party 
suggested. feathers; but the suggestion was at 
once overruled by the dwarf, who soon convinced 
the eight, by ocular demonstration, that the hair 
of such a brute as the ourang-outang was much 
more efficiently represented by flax. 
A thick coating of the latter was accordingly 
plastered upon the coating of tar. A long chain 
was now procured. - First, it was passed about the 
waist of the king, and tied; then about another 
of the party, and also tied; then about all successi- 
vely, in the same manner, 
When this chaining arrangement was complete, 
and the party ‘stood as far apart. from each other 
as possible, they formed a circle; and to make all 
things appear natural, Hop-Frog passed the residue 
of the chain, in two diameters, at right angles, 
across the circle, after the fashion adopted, at the 
present day, by those who capture chimpanzees, or 
other large apes, in Borneo. = 
The grand saloon in which the masquerade was 
to take place, was a circular room, very lofty, and 
receiving the light of the sun only through a single 
window at top. = a 
At night (the season for which the apartment was 
especially designed) it was illuminated principally 
by a large chandelier, depending by a chain from 
the centre of the skylight, and lowered, or elevated, 
by means of a counterbalance as usual; but. (in 
order not-.to. look unsightly) this latter passed 
outside the cupola and over the roof. =~ 
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