A Vision of India

150 CHAPTER XII THE CITIES OF THE MOGHULS From the Frontier to the Northern Plains—Delhi and its Memories— A Cemetery of Cities—The Tombs of the Moslems—Hodson and the Moghul Princes —The Ridge and the Mutiny—John Nicholson —The New Delhi—The Dead City of Fatehpur Sikri—Its Origin— The Shrine of the Saint and the Gate of Victory—The Palaces of Akbar—The Taj Mahal at Agra—An American Tribute—Fi [...] It is full of the wealth of the East and the wealth of the West and of the poverty and vice of both. [...] The Prince of Wales during his sojourn in Bombay was shown the docks and the harbour and new street and the cathedral and doubtless his attention was directed to the Victoria Terminus and the Clock Tower the Town Hall and the Courts of Justice. [...] All along the ridge are the best and most desirable h+Duses in Bombay the houses where Europeans like to live because of the air and the gardens and the views over the town the Back Bay and the open waters of tile Indian Ocean. [...] The gratified guest sits and smokes and drinks and listens to the many voices of the Indian night and gazes on the lights of the shifting sprinkled like fireflies over the dark waters far below and across to the opposite shores of the Back Bay outlined in points of silver.