Douglas Island news., 1910-09-28
AROUND THE WORLD Dr. Simpsons Story of His Visits to the Countries of the
 Old World
Continued from last week)
Agra.

hate to be eternally dipping into history, but { can not make myself clear without it. Six or seven hundred I years ago a Chinese Tartar named Gen. ghis Khan had about one.tentb of an acre of land and two or three goats. He was a disagreeable, quarrelsome man with thieyish propensities, and in civilized country would have spent most of his life in states prison He be. gan stealing goatsy then denkeys, then camels, then began b0rning houses, killing the owner, and carrying off everything else. All the toughs and blacklegs of the country joined him and he soon had small army. They took farms and villages and he soon set himsel& up as chief, and the rest of his life he spent in picking quarrels, robbing and killing people. Many joined him for fear of him. He ran all over Asia. including Northern India. When he died, everything went to pieces.
 More than hundred years later a descendent of his named Tamerlam turned up. have grouch against him. In July, 1894, we Russians q mean Dr. Koosher, George Kyrsge and myselfl beat Tamerlam very badly; the only time, in fact, he ever was beaten badly. Time went on, and in few years more would have forgotten all about it, when about the middle of June, 1894, 1 had letter from Mir. George Kostro- mitenoff, asking me to come over to Sitka and help him celebrate the five hundredth anniversary of the victory. said it'was five hundred years ago; we are getting all right with those people now, why rake it all up again? But he was obstinate, and l went over to Sitka. went to work drilling the choir and doiug hundred other things. We pulled of fine celebration, but neither of us slept ten minutes during the twelve days. ! went away for couple of years and l never heard of MT. Kos. tromiteuoE again 1 think he died soon after. have never liked Tamerlam since. He and &enghis Khan were de stroyers: they did nobody any good. They marched through peaceful coun. tries, destroying cities, killing men, women and children, leaving desert behind. In. the countries north of Kn- dia there are said to be hundreds of thousands of acres of deserted land which vas rich and we'll cultivated un- til swept over by either or both of those men The natives have a superstition about occupying house or land that has Eeen ravaged by war. It is surpris ing to see the number of fine buildings chat have been empty since the mutiny.
 A hundred years after Tamerlam came Babar or Baber, his descendent, who was called the lion or tiger, al though he was more like bear. He was born in Turkestan; was wild, big boy and wild, big man. He was like Peter the Great of Russia, without bis craelty. He kept diary which is interesting. One place he tells of swim ning wide river and sleeping in the snow afterwards. When he awoke there was about foot of snow on top of him and his soldiers, and it was still snow ing. The next evening he has slight earache and does not have any idea what can have caused it. He won and lost three or four thrones, raised large army at last and swept over India to Delhi where he died. He is buried at Cabul. His son Humayun was very brave man, bat unlucky. He was Aard student, but not practical. He ate large quantities of opium all his life. His son Akbar was the best of the Moguls. He was good warrior and good statesman. He built many palaces and forts. He was very liberal in his religious views, end although Mohametan he was also married to Christian and had several Hindu wives. He married the daugh- ter of every rajah who was liable to be an enemy to him.
 Next came Jahangir, who was drank the last thirty years of his life. He was cruel and useless.
 Next was Shah Jehan, who was the great builder, and who built the Tai Mahal. He was imprisoned the last seven years of his life by his son