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Rh the utmost courtesy. These Mhuts, or Pagodas, are surrounded by an immense number of animals, who, living in complete security, are perfectly tame and domesticated. The slaughter of a bird or quadruped under the protection of a Bramin, would arouse a whole village to avenge the wrong.

Chak savak, Brhamanee duck. The Hindoos imagine that for some transgression committed in the human body, the souls of the offending persons are condemned to animate these animals, who are compelled to part at sunset; the male and female flying on different sides of the river, each imagining that the other has voluntarily forsaken the nest, and inviting the supposed wanderer's return with lamentable cries. The Bramins, compassionating the melancholy condition of these birds, hold them sacred, and will not allow them to be molested within the precincts of their jurisdiction.

It would be useless to attempt a prose description of the superb edifice reared by the Emperor Shah Jehan, in honour of his most beloved wife Moom Taza Mhal. It