The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-17

precious stones were picked out of their
settings by the Jats and Europeans, who
severally took Agra and everything else
they could lay their hands on. Over the
central arch there is an inscription in
Arabic, taken from the Hudees or tradi-
tions; translated it means, Saith Jesus
ION whom be peace this world
is bridge! pass thou over
it. but build not upon it, This world is an
hour; give its minutes to prayers, for the
rest is unseen.n The building, wonderful
in its purity of taste and graceful outline,
about which there is no sense of partial
failure, stands at the end of long vista of
gardens, with marble foun, aims scattered
amongst beautiful plants, trees and shrubs;
birds of brilliant plumage and harsh voices
fitted among the branches. The ibeX and
two or three scarlet famingoes were seen
stalking about near the paths, where heavy
headed flowers nod and tremble on their
mobile stems.
THE ONLY DRAWBACK
to this monument is the reflection that the
labor was all forced, and that the 10000
workmen received little, if any, payment
in cash, and even the daily allowance of
food was curtailed by those Immediately
over them. and as consequence the dis
tress and mortality amongst them was
dreadful.
The distances across India are very great
and the next city visited was Jeypore in
Rsjputana, thought by natives to be tie
most beautiful town in India. The Mahsr-
eish's palace is in the centre and occupies
about one-seyenth of the area Of the city.
His stables contain some three hundred
horses and eighty or hundred elephants.
/ Near by large reservoir (the English
here call them tanks) contains number OF
FIERCE MAN-EATING CRocoDLEs
]
/ by tying the fragments of goat to some
! dull, cleaning eyes looked anything but
pleasant at US when piece of goat meat,
] let down within an inch of their Shiny nos
trils, was suddenly Withdrawn and their
ponderous jaws closed with q snap on three
or four cubic feet of climate.
The writer sent THE HERALD's card tc
the Maharaiab, requesting permission tc
visit the Amoar palace, located in a valley
about four miles from Jeypore in the old
capital of the state, the decayed city OF
Ambar which is entirely inhabited by Hin
doc fasirs (monks). That porentGte
kindly sent mahout and elephant for the
ride TO Ambar and half dozen hours were
pleasingly spent in exploring the battle
ments, meats, drawbridges, tower, dun
geons, ETC.; description in detail would
REQUIRE too much space.
three great points around which the Indial
mutiny centred during the early period O
the revolt and the former city coming mex
OH my itinerary, found 1t the principa
one in the province of Oudh and possessing
a melancholy interests as connected witt
the
FRIGHTFUL SCENES
that occurred at the time. The privatio
endured and the indomita ole courage show
by the beleagured English within the wall
have caused many a heartache for thei
sufferings, though not unmixed with
glow of pride that "the whites, so few i
number, held out successfully against tn
hordes of rebels, who tried every know
means to dislodge them, until eventual
they were relieved by the men under ST
/ Colin Campbell. Here General Haveloc
died and here is the Secunder Bdgh, formerl
! garden, in a large walled inclesurt
which, during the wutiny, formed strong
! hold for the rebels, who loopholed the wall