GARDEN HOUSES. 
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CHAPTER XV. 
GARDEN HOUSES AT LUCKNOW. PARIAHS. 
The day before we quitted Lucknow we paid a 
visit to the Newaub to take leave and thank him for 
his hospitality. We were received in a splendid 
apartment of the palace, in which the prince was 
seated upon a Persian carpet covered with rich devices, 
and smoking a hooka through a mouthpiece studded 
with jewels. He treated us with great complacency 
and kindness, and, after a few minutes’ conversation 
on indifferent topics, we withdrew. Upon quitting 
the Newaub, we repaired to the garden of the palace 
which was laid out with great magnificence and 
taste. 
The buildings represented in the engraving are 
merely garden-houses, constructed of brick and beau- 
tifully stuccoed with chunam ; they are raised on 
chaupoutres,* with steps to ascend from the garden to 
the first story. They are spacious, having broad ter- 
raced roofs, and at each angle a small cupola covered 
with the same delicate stucco. Some of them are 
surmounted by an elegant square canopy with curtains 
depending from the four sides. These canopies are 
* Platforms. 
