A Sportswoman in India 



The mosque itself is a splendid oblong structure, 

 two hundred and sixty-one feet in length, and ap- 

 proached by a magnificent flight of stone steps. The 

 old Moguls knew how to build fitting temples for 

 worship ! Three domes of white marble rise from 

 the roof, with two tall and graceful minarets at the 

 corners in front. The mosque is paved throughout 

 and lined and roofed with white marble. It holds 

 at least ten thousand Musalmans on a Friday, who 

 prostrate themselves each on a pattern on the marble 

 floor. 



There was still light enough to visit what was once 

 the palace of Shah Jehan, where, at the time of the 

 Mutiny, the old King of Delhi, Bahadur Shah, his 

 sons and his "wives, were all living in Eastern magni- 

 ficence and luxury. His court steeped in intrigue, 

 the old king was no more than a puppet in the hands 

 of the princes and his wives. Directly the Mutiny 

 broke out he was proclaimed Emperor, and his sons 

 appointed to various military commands ; but when 

 Delhi was taken, he fled and took refuge in Humayun's 

 tomb, outside the city, and was brought in as prisoner 

 by Hodson, the intrepid leader of a corps of irregular 

 horse, who with his own hand shot down the two 

 princes ; Bahadur Shah, the last of the Moguls, was 

 banished to Rangoon. 



The gateway of the palace, the Lahore Gate, is 

 supposed to be one of the finest gateways in the 

 world : three sides of the palace are walled in by an 

 imposing battlemented wall ; the fourth a,buts directly 



