Here I could indulge in long walks without incurring the penalty of a departure from established custom, which in most well-populated parts of Hindoostaun restrains European ladies from the exercise so congenial to their health and cherished habits.  Should any English-woman venture to walk abroad in the city of Lucknow, for instance,—­to express their most liberal opinion of the act,—­she would be judged by the Natives as a person careless of the world’s opinion.  But here I was under no such constraint; my walks were daily recreations after hours of quiet study in the most romantic retirement of a ruined killaah, where, if luxury consists in perfect satisfaction with the objects by which we are surrounded, I may boast that it was found here during my two years’ residence.

[1] This is incorrect.  Hindu traditions refer to a deluge, in which Manu,
    with the help of a fish, makes a ship, and fastening her cable to the
    fish’s horn, is guided to the mountain, and then he, alone of human
    beings, is saved.—­J.  Muir, Original Sanskrit Texts, part ii (1860),
    p. 324.

[2] This is merely a stupid folk etymology, comparing Kanauj with Cain.

[3] Qil’a.

[4] Kali Nadi, ‘black stream’, a corruption of the original
    name, Kalindi.

[5] Tahsildar.

[6] In the southern centre of the ruined citadel stand the tombs of
    Bala Pir and his son, Shaikh Mahdi.  Shaikh Kabir,
    commonly called Bala Pir, is said to have been the tutor of
    the brother Nawabs, Dalel and Bahadur Khan.  The former
    ruled Kanauj in the time of Shah Jahan (A.D. 1628-1651), and
    died after his deposition in 1666.—­A.  Fuehrer, Monumental Antiquities
    and Inscriptions of the N.W.  Provinces and Oudh, 1891, p. 80.

[7] Horseshoes are often nailed on the gates of the tombs of Musalman
    saints, as at the mosque of Fatehpur Sikri.

[8] Pir, ‘a saint, a holy man’.

[9] Maqbara, ‘a sepulchre’.

[10] The Emperor Aurangzeb, A.D. 1658-1707.

[11] Khalifah, Caliph, one of the terms which have suffered degradation,
    often applied to cooks, tailors, barbers, or other Musalman
    servants.

[12] This may be the building known as Sita ki Rasoi, the kitchen
    of Sita, heroine of the Ramayana epic.  It is described and
    drawn by Mrs. F. Parks (Wanderings of a Pilgrim, ii. 143).

[13] Butkhana.

[14] The tomb of the Saint Sa’id Shaikh Makhdum Jahaniya
    Jahangasht of Multan (A.D. 1308-81).  Fuehrer, op. cit., p. 81.

[15] Many saints are credited with the power of changing the courses of
    rivers:  see instances in W. Crooke, Popular Religion and Folklore of
    N. India, 2nd ed., ii. 218.

[16] This may be a variant of the story that after the capture of Chitor,
    Akbar weighed 74-1/2 man (8 lbs. each) of cords belonging to the
    slain Rajputs.—­J.  Tod, Annals of Rajasthan, 1884, i. 349.