310 A Sportswoman in India 



" It is impossible to describe the joy of breathing 

 the pure air of the open country after such a horrible 

 experience ; but we had not escaped untainted. That 

 night we had several cases of cholera." 



Can Englishmen be blamed for showing little mercy ? 

 It was the women called for vengeance, and when have 

 British soldiers not rushed to that cry ? The native 

 population was expelled the city, acres of it were 

 cleared of slums, gardens and so on being substituted. 

 Later on, Hindus were readmitted, but Mohammedans 

 were rigorously excluded for years. At the present 

 time Delhi is a prosperous commercial town and a 

 great railway centre. 



We passed the Bank and the Commissioner's house, 

 a pleasant-looking white bungalow, standing in a 

 garden, where, alas ! his wife and daughters were 

 murdered by the mutineers, and those in the Bank 

 shared their fate. 



Farther on we were pointed out some old trees : 

 there the two native princes from the Palace had 

 Europeans and Eurasians strung up, watching them 

 being killed after they had been hunted down and 

 caught. 



Then we turned into the principal street in Delhi 

 the street par excellence in all India for beauty and 

 for good things well made, the Chandi Chauk, or Street 

 of Silver, which leads from the fort to the Lahore 

 Gate, and is three-quarters of a mile long and seventy- 

 four feet broad. All down its centre, on both sides 

 of its raised path, stand up a double row of the sacred 



