a blessing in disguise, so largely has it rge crowds of young children entirely influence of wise, good teachers, not oral and Christian, but also industrial, vhile physically, many of these poor rays will turn out such men and women er would in their native villages.

8th, we made our round of the sights of Delhi, first calling at the National h we found right in the heart of the Le Manager told us of the facility with soorie-the sanitarium for Delhi-could a night in the train and half the next e climb on ponies or in a light cart make the journey. A dust-storm in t. May or June, when the outlook

becomes inky black, is a not very xperience, nor are the hottest months . He was in Nuwara Eliya (on a brief r island) in 1894, when that notable was discharged, striking a tree in front I Hotel and throwing down some of the ugh without injury. But to return to

DELHI SHOPS.

lone in ivory (now got chiefly from ) and in embroidery in gold and silver tiful and a visit to native work-places, eadily shown, is most interesting. The the tools or modes of working, with finest articles are turned out, is We were shewn designs and partly es intended for Queen Alexandra and

sque of Delhi-unrivalled for size, magnificent minarets which tower has a fine effect as it is approached s of steps and shews an admixture e and white marble. The courtyard olding 15,000 worshippers at a time e of any distraction, even ornament, ne, here as everywhere, is remarkable. are a marble basin and fountain. or doors are massive, overlaid with , and the principal one could only be Mogul Emperor, so now it is only Viceroy. One can quite believe that orkmen six years to construct this g the Mutiny, the gates were bricked que held by fanatical Mahommedans ege of four or five days before they

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came but v guard wife and memo of the

THE JAIN TEMPLE

well worth a visit, the ceiling and arble court being richly gilded and wo rows of small marble columns, 1 figure of Buddha is seated below - with offerings of flowers before it mples. The Jain priests, or holders of rry, and their families occupy surngs. The Queen's Gardens, close by treet of Delhi, are a great relief, of roses at this time of year a the visitor. The Museum is a poor nd neglected; a clock tower 128 feet ose by, and in front of the gardens stone elephant on a raised platform

-walior 250 years ago

ctions, as the true show-place of Delhi, g the palace of the Mogul Emperors to Shah Jehan in 1638. We entered it y fine Lahore gate, around which so st centred in the Mutiny. For here it Captain Douglas, Commandant of the ce Guards-all natives-was murdered tineers from Meerut, with whom he ley and to order away from the gate; ere traitorously admitted by the native y quickly the English Chaplain and his ery European and Christian in the Fort were slaughtered. [There is a brass ate to some of the Missionary martyrs y in the Baptist Church.]

ve now to deal with what we saw in the y the Palace Halls of Audience; private and Pearl Mosque. We were most

the wonderfully delightful, almost uation of this kingly and imperial ilt to the very edge of the fortification, the Jumna and a wide expanse of ond. The best account we have seen of s. Steele in her "On the Face of the en she speaks of "four rose-red fortress ing in a few acres of earth where the Mogul Emperors, in 1857, still dreamt a ɔwer among the golden domes, marble and green gardens with which his d crowned the eastern wall.” However shone in the Fort, cool breezes from

are told "of a cool breezy world gold and blue, clasping a garden, set nd fruit, with blue sky, white marble nd golden domes vaulting and zoning

leaves of the orange trees, where t hung like emeralds above a tangle arigolds, chrysanthemums and crimson uch is a leaf from the past. We saw ted palace, but recognised how true ight have been, for the glories and e apartments, baths and halls are : the paintings and mosaics behind t in the Public Hall of Audience; the vilion of white marble richly ornaold and other work, called the Private ce, with its Persian distich over the

If on earth be an Eden of bliss,
It is this, it is this, it is this!

le stand is still there; but the famous
e, which stood upon it, is now in .
ace at Teheran, removed by Nadir
Milton had no doubt such a scene
Agra and Lahore of the Great Mogul”
the famous lines in “Paradise Lost”:—

a throne of royal state, which far
the wealth of Ormuz and of Ind,
the gorgeous East with richest hand
on her kings barbaric pearl and gold."

ment close by is notable for a richly It screen with a small window and es of justice." The ladies' apartments ll of white marble, beautifully inlaid, ere many fountains. During the

recious stones which decorated the y of the walls were picked out and

he Palace is believed to have been the ndia-nay in Asia-and certainly for situation" and adaptation to the site, › been unparalleled.

invisited the many tombs outside Delhi nd monument "Kutub Minar" (11 miles wn), a tower or building 240 feet high, es and guide-books say all visitors to d see; we must be content to be an

IN THE PUNJAUB.

Delhi, on November 19th, to journey

TO LAHORE

noon train. [We had an amusing illustraleaving "Maiden's Metropolitan Hotel," ry comfortable one-of the multiplicity I who expect a small douceur, if only r two, from visitors; for here, besides rs and bed-room boy, there turned up, l-bye to the sahib, a sweeper, a wateramp and boots boy, a policeman or peon -f premises, and, of course, several box it on the whole, servants are not at all e at Indian hotels-so far as we have are content with comparatively small

try we saw beyond Delhi appeared to be haps part of the great wheat plain; g of interest occurred (unless found in the