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 would it be clear that the us in the epitaph proceeds from the lions:—

"Deep beneath this marble stone A kindred spirit to our own Sleeps in death's profound repose, Freed from human cares and woes; Like us his heart, like ours his frame, He bore on earth a gallant name. Friendship gives to us the trust To guard the hero's honour'd dust."

On the other side the monument is another inscription, also written by Colonel Skinner.

THE REMAINS INTERRED BENEATH THIS MONUMENT WERE ONCE ANIMATED BY AS BRAVE AND SINCERE A SOUL AS WAS EVER VOUCHSAFED TO MAN BY HIS ! A BROTHER IN FRIENDSHIP HAS CAUSED IT TO BE ERECTED, THAT, WHEN HIS OWN FRAME IS DUST, IT MAY REMAIN AS A MEMORIAL FOR THOSE WHO CAN PARTICIPATE IN LAMENTING THE SUDDEN AND MELANCHOLY LOSS OF ONE DEAR TO HIM AS LIFE. WILLIAM FRAZER DIED MARCH 22ND, 1835.

In the evening the brother of the Bāiza Bā'ī, Hindū Rāo, sent me an elephant, and Colonel Skinner sent another; on these we mounted, and went through all the principal streets of the city. Dehlī or Dillī, the metropolis of Hindūstān, is generally called by Musalmāns Shāh-jahān-ābād, and, by Europeans, Delhi. The Chāndnī chauk, a very broad and handsome street, is celebrated; it has a canal that runs through and down the centre of it; but such is the demand for water, that not a drop