Douglas Island news., 1910-11-16
THE WORLD
Dr. Simpsons Story of His Visits to the Countries of the
 Old World
(Gontinued from last week..
DELHI (CoNTINUED)

| DHDf1A (CONTlNUEOJ
 There is splendid road for i've miles along the southern part of old Delhi, where you come to- the Kutab minaret,a tower 24O feet high and 50 feet in diameter at the base. It has five stories, the architecture being different in all. The lower three are carved red stone, the npper two marble. 1t was a tower of victory built by Kutab,a slave who afterwards became emperor and founded 8 dynasty. There are steps leading up to the top. Beside it is an old mosque built on the ruins of an older Hindoo temple. The pillars of this temple are still there, beautifully carved, although the Mahometans mutilated many of the carvings. The mosque opens by beautiful archway SO feet high and very old. Near it is a wrought iron pillar 1@ inches in diam eter and 2$ feet above ground. 1t is bright end polished and shows no rust anywhere. 1t dates from the fourth century. 1t has several inscriptions, one of which says that it was made and set ap after certain conquests. There was legend that it was stuck in the mouth of a large underground serpent One emperor wanted to find out if this were true; he loosened the pillar and gallons of blood gashed out. He lost his throne few days after. There is the beginning of another pillar near the Kutab, It would have been 500 feet high, but when it reached 90 feet the emperor died. Still it is quite tidy Shing as it stands. There are tombs and tombs, hundreds of them. Any one of them would be considered 8 wonderful thing anywhere else; think that between here and modern Delhi nineteen-twentieths of the old emperors were baried. The oldest is that of Altmash, son-in law of Kutab It is close to the Kutab minaret. Many mosques aud other ruins have the name \ of Ala ud din on them. He IS the one who took Chitor to obtain the beautiful lady. He had been adopted by the old emperor who was very fond of him and very kind to him, but thinking that the old man was too long dying he had him killed, he looking on and the old emperor calling on him piteously for help all the time. Near by is the i'm. mense tomb of Adham Khan and his mother. They were hot numbers. The mother nursed the emperor when an infant. Adham took some town, took princess who committed suicide rather than go with him. His mother killed her two sisters so that they would not tell the emperor. Later he killed his step father in Akbar's palace. As he came out of the room Akbar knocked him down aud threw his body over the battlement and they built this tomb over him. His mother died a few days later, it is said of broken heart.
 Farther on is the tomb of saint and around it many emperors. Old Shah Alan is there and near by is the tomb of Gulham, who put out his eyes. There is round we'll here 70 or so feet deep. The walls run up more than 50 feet above the surface of the water. Men climb up one side and jump into the we'll, then crawl out by window just above the water level. do not see how they avoid striking the side of the we'll. There was little town near by and wedding was in progress when l was there. The groom was mature