The castle itself is an immense mud building, rising to the height of eighty or ninety feet, with little battlements on the walls, and at a distance really looks warlike.

Like all the other buildings, it has no pretensions to regularity.

The lower walls are fifty or sixty feet in thickness, the upper taper off to about four or five feet.

In consequence of the immense mass of wall, the apartments are very small, and few in number.

The rooms occupied by the sultan are of the best quality, that is to say, comparatively, for the walls are tolerably smooth and white-washed, and have ornamental daubs of red paint in blotches, by way of effect.