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Shahjahanabad fore-fingers In the ears, to shut out worldly sounds,and also to increase the power of the voice.The call is as follows, each sentence being repeated : —

"God is great. I bear witness that Allah is God. Mahomed is the Prophet of God. Haste to prayer, haste to salvation. (In the morning only, here Is added,'Prayer is better than sleep.')God is great. Allah is the only God." The weird cadence of their cries has a peculiar spell even over the believer in another religion; the Mahomedan may be said to be the most earnest in prayer among professors of any religion of the world. CORONATION DARBAR PARK. — About a quarter of a mile to the north of the Najafgarh Jhil Drain, a road to the right leads out of the Alipur Road to the site of the Proclamation of Edward the Seventh, the first British Emperor of India.There still remains the amphitheatre of earth,which was then covered with seats, and roofed in imitation of the Moghal style. An embankment has been thrown up all around to keep out the water, which floods the low-lying site during the rainy season, and the whole of the interior has been laid out as a park. An obelisk is to be erected in the centre to record 167