Douglas Island news., 1910-11-09
AROUND THE WORLD
Dr. Simpsons Story of His Visits to the Countries of the
 Old World
DELHI (goNrINuED)
(Continued from last week.


 En the shops are tropical fruits of all kinds-bananas cucum bers, jackfruit, watermelons, mangoes, oranges and many kinds of which I do not know the name. Bat they nearly all taste the same to me. There are cheap shops where they sell brass bowls and drink ing bottles, lamp wicks and cheap cot ton prints and stuff that we would throw away. There are soft drink es' tabHshmenCs where they sell dozens of kinds of native drinks of which we know nothing. Many shops sell grain of all kinds-rice, barley, dahl, peas, beans, millet and maize. There are a few higher class shops where they make and sell articles carved from ivory, as elephants, tigers, lions, monS keys, temples or gods; shops where they do inlaid work in marble, sandal wood or ivory, or enamel or damascene or lacque. Some have large stocks of jewels, bat they will not show them un- less you have been in the shop several times and they know you are likely to be a customer. There is a fine gray dust rising from the street; the hot wind blows it in your eyes, down your nose and throat, and you smell mix ture of camels, goats, dust, fruit, syrups of many kinds, etc.
 The present Delhi is the ninth that was built in the neighborhood. There are ruins extending twelve miles, with width of from five to ten miles. The guide told me that if you visited every ruined mosque and tomb in the Delhi ruins and spent two minutes at each one, that it would take you three weeks to go over the ground. Fourteen hun. dred years B. c. there were two royal families in India, the Pandayas and Kauravas. The Pandavas were ban ished and located in the iunge not far from the river and called the place kn- drapat. They prospered, and at a celebration where there were games a Pandava brother won a rich young princess by some fancy arrow shooting. Some time after this the Pandavas and Kauravas were at feast together and there was some gambling. Yinda- stratha Pandava was gam bling with one of the Kanravas and allowed nice old Kaurava uncle to shake the dice. He understood shaking dice so we'll that Yindastratha lost first his money, then his Valuables, his real estate, his sol diers, his brothers and his wife whom he had won at the archery contest. One of the KauraVas went up to his wife's (Draupadi'sl room, told her she was a slave of the KauraVas now. She re- fused to go down and he dragged her down. She let down her hair, said she would never do it up again until she died or WAS avenged. The Pandavas were exiled again, but after twelve years they game back more prosperous than ever. They attacked the Kauravas at Indrapat. Yindastratha killed the man who won his property, the man who dragged Draupadi from the room and the nice talented old uncle. He then hunted up Draupadi and with his hands still bloody did up her hair. The Kauravas were killed almost to a man and descendants of the Pandavas occupied the throne for about two thousand years. Then another city was built on the ruins of Tndrapat, an other on it's ruins. The ruins of the last citv ramain and thav nnint ont a