40 RIFLE AND SPEAR WITH THE RAJPOOTS. 



We lauded at the Nasim Bagh for luncheon, winch we 

 brought with us. This was one of the numerous summer 

 palaces of the Emperor Akbar, but except for the avenues 

 and clumps of big chanars, and the massive stone encircling 

 wall, there is nothing left but a few ruins to mark the spot. 



We have kept on the boatmen who brought us from 

 Baramula, and they come up now and beg for money to 

 buy food. As there is no place whore anything can be 

 purchased, we ask for an explanation ; " That no matter, 

 we long way from home, always custom Sahibs give money 

 for food here ; " and this became their war cry for the 

 rest of the day, even after a plentiful repast which the)' 

 had brought with them and shamelessly devoured. 



After luncheon we rowed across to the Shalimar Bagh 

 (garden). The gardens are formed by four terraces rising 

 one above the other. Through the middle, a mountain 

 stream has been led along a stone-paved perfectly straight 

 course, widening in places into tanks sprinkled with 

 fountains, and falling in little cascades over each terrace 

 step. On every terrace stands a large pavilion, the top 

 one the finest, made of painted wood, with polished black 

 marble pillars. It is in the middle of a marble-lined tank, 

 into which cascades fall on each of the four sides. There 

 are innumerable fountains all around and along the canal, 

 with jets of water intended to cool the air playing in 

 every direction. 



