. William H. Seward's travels around the world. enues of flower-ing acacias and mangos. Oxen, asses, and camels, in trains andloaded with cotton, obstructed the way. Futtehpore Sikra was an imperial suburb built by Akbar, andwas six miles in circumference. He enclosed the whole by a highembrasured wall of red sandstone. This fortification, with its loftySaracenic gate, remains as if in mockery, protecting the now deso-lated theatre of imperial pomp and recreation. Our one jadedbeast gave out when we reached this gate. A native guide met usthere, and we found his strong arm useful in climbing t
. William H. Seward's travels around the world. enues of flower-ing acacias and mangos. Oxen, asses, and camels, in trains andloaded with cotton, obstructed the way. Futtehpore Sikra was an imperial suburb built by Akbar, andwas six miles in circumference. He enclosed the whole by a highembrasured wall of red sandstone. This fortification, with its loftySaracenic gate, remains as if in mockery, protecting the now deso-lated theatre of imperial pomp and recreation. Our one jadedbeast gave out when we reached this gate. A native guide met usthere, and we found his strong arm useful in climbing the rockyledge under a burning sun. He led us, by a circuitous path overbroken columns and fallen arches, into a court covered with massesof debris. Before us rose a terrace, which we were to ascend byone hundred stone steps. This staircase was crowned by a Sara-cenic gate-way one hundred and twenty feet high. Ascending theeasy and yet unbroken stairway, we passed under the lofty arch,which invites the pilgrim of every land to the tomb of Sheik. A SARACENIC GATE. 391 Selim Chishti, the religious monitor of Akbar. Here we rested amoment to examine the stupendous open doors, which, though fur-rowed by the storms of three hundred years, are still almost literally
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