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Title: "Round the world." : Letters from Japan, China, India, and Egypt
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Fogg, Wm. Perry (William Perry), b. 1826
Subjects: Voyages around the world
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ted arch forty feethfgb, and in the center is an octagonal domeof marble forty-five feet in diameter andeighty feet high. Here are the sacrophagiof the Emperor, his wife and children; thesciual graves being, as usual, below in thevaults. B7 a stone staircase in the thick-ness of the walls we ascended to a gallery,from which springs the huge dome, andlooked down the giddy depth into the vasthall beneath. The wall of the dome iseleven feet thick, and covered with slabs ofpure white marble. Though over threehundred years old this splendid mausoleumis in admirable preservation, and impressedme as a wonderful masterpiece of a by-goneage. It was to HumayooLs tomb that Baha-door-Shah, the last of the Moguls, fled withhis sons and hid themselves, after the cap-ture of Delhi in Ssptember, 1857. Theygave themselves up the next day, beingpromised that their lives should be spared;but on their way to Delhi, the two olderprinc-s were barbarcusly shot by MajorHcdson. The spot where this tragedy oc-
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( HI KOOTVB M1NAK 179 curred was afterwards pointed out by ourguide. The King and his two youngersons were transported to Rangoon, wherehe died about two years ago. In the neighborhood are several smallertombs and mosques, one of which is builtaround a large tank, forty feet deep. Whilewe were standing at the waters edge, aman suddenly appeared on top of the mosqup,ran nimbly down the course of the dome,and sprang, feet foremost into the tank be-low. Several others followed in rapid suc-cession, and swimming quickly to the back,held out their hands for buckshees; thenclambered up again to repeat the perform-ance. It appeared to us a very dangerousfeat, for the height could not have been lessthan one hundred feet, and the water, sur-rounded by tall buildings, was very cold:but they seemed to enjoy the plunge bathand kept it up as long as we threw themcoppers. Here is also the tomb of the post Chusero,the reputed author of the Arabian Nights,who died in the fourteenth century. Look-ing

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