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LIVES OF THE MOGHUL EMPERORS. 
yielded to the conqueror, whose troops continued the 
dreadful work of destruction until there was not a 
single family in this proud metropolis that did not 
mourn more than one dead. The ferocious conque- 
rors reeked with the blood of the slain. To use the 
words of the good Mussulmaun,* as he has been called, 
who recites these horrors with a cool and easy indif- 
ference, they sent to the pit of hell the souls of 
those infidels, of whose heads they erected towers.” 
This sanguinary work continued for several days ; 
and the citizens finally permitted to live were driven 
from their homes to the most hitter bereavement. 
Delhi was given up to plunder, and the treasure 
obtained was enormous : the jewels alone are said 
to have amounted to an almost incredible sum. 
Scarcely anything of value was left in this fine city, 
which presented a scene of awful desolation. Timur 
appropriated to himself from the spoils a hundred and 
fifty elephants, twelve rhinoceroses, besides a great 
number of curious animals which had been collected by 
Feroze Toghluk. The splendid mosque erected by that 
prince, upon the stones of which were inscribed the 
principal transactions of his reign, was an object of 
such admiration to the conqueror, that he removed to 
Samerkund the architect who had designed and the 
masons employed in raising it, in order to erect one in 
his own capital. 
On quitting Delhi, the emperor halted his army at 
* Shureef-ood-Deen Ally, who composed a life of Timur from 
the public records by command of the emperor’s grandson, and 
consequently became the servile eulogist of his hero. 
