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shot by an armed attendant who had secreted himself 
behind a min ; for these animals are so timid that it 
is very difficult to get near them. 
At Sumbul there is a mosque of considerable beauty, 
though not much respected, built by the unfortunate 
but virtuous Humayun. The town is but thinly 
populated and many of the houses are altogether de- 
serted. The bazaars being indifferently attended, 
there is little or no appearance of that busy chaffer- 
ing so generally observed in the bazaar of an Indian 
town. We crossed the Ganges at the Depour Gaut, 
proceeded to Anopshur, a military station above Fut- 
tyghur, and after a progress of four days, crossed 
the Kyratta Gaut on the Jumna and entered the still 
splendid capital of the Mogul empire. But Delhi is 
no longer what it was during the domination of the 
house of Timour. Its glory has departed, though it 
is magnificent even in its decay. 
The modern city of Delhi, and the seat of the 
present Mahomedan empire in Hindostan- — alas, how 
fallen ! was built by Shah Jehan in the seventeenth 
century and called after him Shahjehanabad. It is 
about seven miles in circumference and stands on the 
western bank of the Jumna. It is protected by a 
strong lofty wall, but which would offer little effectual 
resistance to modern artillery. There is nothing very 
remarkable in the town which yields in magnificence 
to many of inferior note in Hindostan. It has seven 
gates, near one of which is a college, a tolerably 
handsome edifice of some extent but now unappro- 
priated and rapidly falling to decay. The palaces 
of Saadet Khan, and of Sultan Darah Shekoh are 
