SCENES IN INDIA. 
Having become enamoured of a young woman, as 
poor but enthusiastic as himself, he married her. This 
so incensed his family that they discarded him ; 
when he, under the excitement of indignation at what 
he considered to be his wrongs, mounted his wife upon 
an old horse, and walking by her side, proceeded 
towards the capital of the renowned Akbar. Their 
scanty supply of money was soon exhausted. They 
had no means of procuring sustenance, and were ap- 
parently fast approaching destruction. They had not 
tasted food for three days : difficulties every moment 
accumulated upon them, and to crown their misery 
the wife of the Tartar was seized with the pains of 
labour. Assisted only by her wretched husband, she 
gave birth to 'a daughter. They were in the midst 
of a vast desert where the foot of man but seldom 
penetrated, and had no other prospect but of perishing 
with hunger or by wild beasts. Chaja Aiass having 
placed his wife upon the horse as soon as he could do 
so with safety, found himself unable to follow with 
the infant. The mother was too weak to carry it, 
and there was but one alternative. The struggle of 
nature was a severe one ; there was however no choice 
left between death and parental subjugation. It was 
agreed by the half distracted parents that the new- 
born pledge of their affection must be abandoned. 
They covered it with leaves, and left it in the path 
to the mercy of that God who can protect the babe 
in the desert as well as the sovereign on his throne. 
The miserable pair pursued their journey in silence 
and in agony. After a short progress, the invincible 
yearnings of nature prevailed over the torments of 
