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remind us of similar ones found in the Agra and Delhi forts. 
Tradition says that during the Mutiny two or three soldiers 
ventured into the underground passages of the Agra Fort, and 
were never heard of after. 
Equally curious is a passage in Ibn Batiita, who was 
appointed judge of Delhi in the time of Firoz Shah’s immediate 
predecessor, Muhammad IT, ibn Tughlag (reigned 1325-51), 
son of Ghiyagu-d-din Tughlag Shah I (reigned 1320-25). 
ain 
which is the principal * * *?? (ELLIoT st. ] f 
589.500). Pp p ( oT, Hist. of India, III 
It is difficult to see where were those walls within which 
horsemen and foot-soldiers could pass along from one end of the 
town to the other: whether at old Dehli or Pithaura, at Siri, 
where Ghiyasu-d-din Balban had his court and would have 
stored his grain; or at Jahan-panah, where Muhammad Shah 
how Firoz Shah, one of the greatest builders, if not the greatest, 
of the Delhi kings, should have thought of, and cn in, 
