24 THE HUNTING GROUNDS 



Baths, Durm-salahs, (almshouses), Caravanserais, 

 and Choultrees, for the accommodation of pilgrims 

 and travellers, which are falling to ruin from 

 neglect. 



There is a very tolerably kept up garden round 

 one of the tombs, in vrhich the mangoe, orange, 

 lime, citron, pumelow, fig, jack-fruit, pomegranate, 

 plantain, cocoa-nut, vine, and betel-nut flourish. 

 It is a delightful place, and quite in the Oriental 

 style, having long shaded avenues, with stone 

 borders, numerous fountains, and streams of run- 

 ning water on each side, to irrigate the plants. 

 Parterres of roses and Indian jessamine load the 

 air with the most delicious fragrance, and at in- 

 tervals are beautiful "kiosks" or garden-houses, 

 of the most elaborate and delicately carved Sara- 

 cenic architecture, profusely ornamented with ara- 

 besques and quaint Arabic and Persian inscrip- 

 tions, some of which I took the trouble of deci- 

 phering, and found them to be guzzels, or verses, 

 in which some fair beauty is described " as having 

 dark, almond-shaped eyes, in which the purity of 

 her heart was reflected : hut which committed more 

 destruction among the hearts of men than the 

 double-edged sword of Bustum ; whose voice was 

 like the evening song of the Bul-hul, mingled with 

 the distant m,urmu7'ing of many waters; whose 

 beauty made the rose turn pale with envy, and the 

 passion flower drop to the ground from jealousy ; 

 whose gait was graceful as that of the silver moon 



