322 A Sportswoman in India 



The two princes had spared neither men, women, 

 nor children in Delhi at the time the Mutiny broke 

 out. They had helped to capture about fifty Euro- 

 peans and Eurasians, nearly all females, who were 

 trying to escape from the city on that fatal morning. 

 For fifteen days these Englishwomen were confined 

 in the palace in a stifling chamber, they were then 

 brought out and massacred in the courtyard. 



Should the two ringleaders place in further jeopardy 

 more lives ? Hodson took the bull by the horns, 

 and the mutineers, half ready to make a stand round 

 their two princes, fell back terror-stricken at the sight 

 of his smoking revolver and the two prostrate bodies. 



Humayun's tomb is very like the tombs of all 

 Oriental magnates very large, very cool, and very 

 dark. It was covered by the usual immense dome ; 

 it was floored and lined, also as usual, with marble. 

 In the dim light in the centre, exactly beneath the 

 centre of the dome, stood the marble sarcophagus, 

 in which lies all that remains of Akbar's father. An 

 old man (there is always an old man), though the 

 tomb was open and any one could enter it, took us 

 inside, and afterwards prostrated himself before us 

 for small coin. Around the tomb was the usual 

 garden, but other building of any sort there was 

 none. They stand strangely alone, these silent, monu- 

 mental cairns. 



Our stay in Delhi was but short, and on the 

 following morning we railed down south en route for 

 Ootacamund. 



