45° Voya(je of the Novara. 



ship of which even the stone-cutters of our own days might feel 

 proud of. Captain Mitchell, an English officer stationed at 

 Madras, had hit upon the idea of photographing the most 

 interesting of these monuments. 



The fortress of Vellore has heen fortified for ahout 1000 

 years ! Captured by the English at the close of the last century, 

 the then Nabob, a Mussulman, was taken prisoner, and his de- 

 scendants have ever since inhabited the fort as State prisoners, 

 without ever being permitted to leave it. We inquired of the 

 officer who accompanied us, whether the Nabob was permitted 

 at least to make use of the space within the fortress for exercise 

 in the open air. "The Mussulmen," replied the cautious 

 Englishman, " do not care to show themselves in public; they 

 prefer taking their exercise in the court in front of their re- 

 sidence, or in the garden." Accordingly, the aged prince is 

 rarely known even to take an airing in a palanquin. The town 

 of Vellore itself is, in a great measure, another place altogether, 

 whose inhabitants are Mahometans, about 80,000 in number, 

 chiefly engaged in rice culture. 



We originally intended to return the same day to Madras, 

 the length of the journey, as well as the distance of the fort 

 from the railway station, having been represented to us as 

 much shorter than was actually the case. Accordingly, we 

 telegraphed to the Austrian Consul, M. Campbell, Esq., an 

 exceedingly courteous gentleman, that we should not return 

 till the following morning. How great was our astonishment 

 to find that the telegraph employes at Vellore, both in the trans- 



