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the stream flows through a marble, or, at least, a 

 limestone tank, and the structure is shaded by great 

 chundr trees, while, through a vista of their splendid 

 foliage, we look down the terraces and water-courses 

 upon the lake below. This was, and still is, a fitting 

 place in which a great, luxurious, pleasure-loving 

 emperor might find repose, and gather strength for 

 the more serious duties of power. Jehangir was a 

 strange but intelligible character. One historian 

 briefly says of him "Himself a drunkard during 

 his whole life, he punished all who used wine." 

 And after the unsuccessful rebellion of his son 

 Khusrii, he made that prince pass along a line of 

 700 of his friends who had assisted him in rebelling. 

 These friends were all seated upon spikes in fact, 

 they were impaled ; so we may see it was not without 

 good reason that Jehcingir occasionally sought for 

 secluded places of retirement. But these charac- 

 teristics, taken alone, give an unfair idea of this great 

 ruler. Though he never entirely shook off the dipso- 

 maniac habits which he had formed at an early age, 

 yet it may have been an acute sense of the incon- 

 venience of them which, made him so anxious to pre- 

 vent any of his subjects from falling into the snare ; 

 he hints an opinion that though his own head might 

 stand liquor without much damage, it by no means 

 followed that other people's heads could do so ; and 

 the severe punishment of the adherents of a rebellious 

 son was, in his time, almost necessary to secure the 



