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  THE

  ROMANCE OF THE HAREM.

  BY

  MRS. ANNA H. LEONOWENS,

  AUTHOR OF "THE ENGLISH GOVERNESS AT THE SIAMESE COURT."

  Illustrated.

  [Illustration: THE EMERALD IDOL.]

  BOSTON:
  JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY,

  LATE TICKNOR & FIELDS, AND FIELDS, OSGOOD, & CO.

  1873.




  Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872,
  BY JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO.,
  in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

UNIVERSITY PRESS: WELCH, BIGELOW, & CO., CAMBRIDGE.




PREFACE.


"Truth is often stranger than fiction," but so strange will some of the
occurrences related in the following pages appear to Western readers