Douglas Island news., 1910-11-09


 great many walls and portions of waiis and houses which they date back to the Pandavas.
 I took the train for Tuglakabad, about 12 miles from Delhi. This was Delhi in 1850 A. D. It was built by Tuglak, who began to reign in 1921. It is a magnificent ruin. The walls are about 90 feet high on an average and the circumference of the city was about four miles. Tuglak did not get on we'll with Nizam .ud din, tbe saint who lived a few miles away. The saint was build ing a water tank; Tuglak was building his city and palace and wanted men. He took away Nizam's men. The saint put them to work at night, Tuglak no- ticed that they were sleepy, found out the cause and told the dealers not to sell Nizam any more oil for his lamps. But the saint evidently did some snug gling, for deVout Mahometans claim that he turned the tank water into oil for the lamps. Tuglak acknowledged that Nizam was saint, but Nizam was unfortunate and prophesied that his city would be desolate, uninhabited or inhabited by Gugas. The place is des' olate enough, for everywhere are im- mense ruined buildings, most of them being beautifully carved. There are few Gugas (outcasts), but they have their mud huts stuck to the walls of old palaces, mosques or tombs. went along one underground passageway several hundred yards long. On each side was a string of stone rooms or cham bers, each about 15x20 feet. There were probably over 200 rooms. asked the guide if they were prisons or cells, and he said no; that they were the ladies' apartments. "You must remem- ber," said he, ''that when those rooms were occupied you could not see the stone walls at all. The walls were coy- cred with tapestry, the floors with car pets, there were touches, divans, lamps and ornaments. They were lighted ar tificially as the Ladies preferred it. The rooms did not look like cells then." In one place for over a handred feet the roof seemed to be covered with thick black velvet about four feet wide. As I approached it broke up into thou sands of bats. They were nearly as large as a robin redbreast. had to keep my hat over my face as they could not see me, and hundreds of them flew straight for my face. 1 have seen many since, but never as many as that time. 1 will not describe the fort or palace. The two together are larger than Ju- neau. Think of city with thousands of houses, stone or brick, that could be made fit to live in by weeks work. The tomb of Tuglak is exactly the kind of tomb that you would expect an old warrior like him to have. It is large, 1t is massive and would stand long siege. Five hundred soldiers could find accomm odation in it. It is just outside the walls of the city. Tuglak's wife is also buried beside him and his son, ''Mahommed the Bloody" He and his nobles used to go out hunting and often he would take whlm and run his peasantry down instead of foxes or wolves. 1t was great fun for him to see the men and women run for their lives. He killed thousands of people that way. Of course, he lost the throne "a cousin took it and tried to make up to the people what they lost by Ma. hommed. Tuglak was human, for in one corner is buried his vi8ier and in another favorite dog which had saved his life.
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