But the difficulty was how to get this census. He could not go
himself into every village and every house, and count all the
people; and if he ordered it to be done by the regular officers
they would quickly understand what it was for, and the census would
be sure to agree exactly with the quantity of rice he got last
year. It was evident therefore that to answer his purpose no one
must suspect why the census was taken; and to make sure of this, no
one must know that there was any census taken at all. In the
afternoon succeeding my arrival, the Secretary accompanied me to
visit the Sultan. We were kept waiting a few minutes in an outer
gate-house, and then ushered to the door of a rude, half- fortified
whitewashed house. A small table and three chairs were placed in a
large outer corridor, and an old dirty-faced man with grey hair and
a grimy beard, dressed in a speckled blue cotton jacket and loose
red trousers, came forward, shook hands, and asked me to be coated.
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