PENKONDA. 
9 
The sentence here pronounced was forthwith 
executed upon the two devotees, despite the re- 
monstrances of the Brahmin ; and no sooner had 
the sack in which the stranger was confined sunk 
beneath the surface of the water, than the opposite 
holy hill of Pennakoel resounded with loud cries of 
“ La ilia oola Mohummed Russool oola” and the 
handsome form of the Mohummedan was seen 
performing genuflexions on the terrace of the 
Brahminical temple ; but the aged Brahmin sank, and 
was never more heard of. Having beheld this won- 
derful exhibition of the supreme truth of the God 
of Ishmael, Drooghi Raial, and all his court, and all 
the inhabitants of Penkonda, even to the youngest 
babe, became immediate converts to Mohummedism, 
more zealous even than those who had been born 
and nurtured in the faith. Not only did they, one 
and all, by inspiration, utter the truths of their new 
creed like true and experienced Moslems, but, though 
insensibly, their ideas and actions became in all 
things suitable. Thenceforth, all their architects, 
artificers, and cunning workmen, devised and wrought 
with the minds and hands of Moslems, as may be 
seen by the style of all masonry since that day. 
There yet remains to be told, that from the moment 
of the Mohummedan’s immersion and miraculous 
rescue, the waters of the reservoir became milk of 
the most delicious kind, such as the Prophet has 
promised shall be ever flowing for the use of the 
