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SCENES IN INDIA. 
which divides Hindostan from Tibet and Tartary, 
are about eight leagues from the spot where we had 
now halted, although they did not appear above half 
a dozen miles. Such is their altitude and bulk that 
so short a distance scarcely seems to diminish them 
to the eye, which is, moreover, beguiled by the ex- 
treme clearness of the atmosphere. 
Near Nujib ud Dowlah’s tomb is a tope of stately 
trees that overshadows some fine ruins, several of 
which are on the skirts of the town. Behind these 
trees there is a mausoleum of considerable beauty, 
highly ornamented with mosaics of black and white 
marble ; the chief object of interest, however, is the 
tomb of the founder of Nujibabad. Wild elephants 
and tigers abound in this neighbourhood, where the 
jungles are very extensive and in many places per- 
fectly impenetrable. The clear, doleful wail of the 
jackal is heard at night, waking the mountain echoes 
which multiply the din, to the great annoyance of the 
weary traveller, though it seems to produce but little 
inconvenience to those whom habit has reconciled 
to so loud and dissonant a lullaby. 
Before we quitted Nujibabad, we had the opportu- 
nity of seeing a bull-fight, an amusement not unfre- 
cpiently indulged in by the petty Rajahs of the moun- 
tain districts. These bulls had been brought from 
Boutan, and were exhibited by a party 'of jugglers, 
who expected a small gratuity from each spectator. 
The animals were about the size of a Bengal ox, or 
of an English bull two years and a half old. They 
had, however, no excrescence between the shoulders, 
common to the Bengal breed, and, unlike that species 
