It occurred to me, through calling to recollection the story of the treasures concealed in the Hindoo idol at Somnath which was broken open by Sultan Mahmoud in the eleventh century, that possibly the same kind of receptacle might disclose a like prize, though on a smaller scale, among the numerous temples scattered through the city of Delhi.

A journo attached to a Marathi newspaper, who belongs to the Somnath Zuwarkar school of thought one of those few loyal sycophants who refused to turn sides in favour of Babush Monserrate was involved in an embarrassing incident a couple of years ago.

When the reporter revealed his professional identity and explained that he too owed obeisance to Somnath Zuwarkar, the complaint was duly withdrawn.

THE FORT The Mûti MasjidThe Dersane DarwazaThe Dîwan-i-âmJahangir's CisternThe Tomb of Mr. ColvinThe Inner Mîna BazarThe Chitore GatesThe Hindu TempleThe Machhi BhawanThe Najina MasjidThe Dîwan-i-KhasJahangir's ThroneThe BathsThe Samman BurjThe Khas MahalThe Underground ChambersThe Anguri BaghShish MahalThe "Somnath" GatesThe Jahangiri MahalThe Sahmgarh.

THE "SOMNATH" GATES.Before entering the Jahangiri Mahal, on the opposite side of the Anguri Bagh, we will pause at a corner of the zanana courtyard, where a small apartment contains an interesting relic of the Afghan expedition of 1842the so-called "Somnath" gates, taken from the tomb of Mahmud of Ghazni in the capture of that city by the British.

THE "SOMNATH" GATES.Before entering the Jahangiri Mahal, on the opposite side of the Anguri Bagh, we will pause at a corner of the zanana courtyard, where a small apartment contains an interesting relic of the Afghan expedition of 1842the so-called "Somnath" gates, taken from the tomb of Mahmud of Ghazni in the capture of that city by the British.

They were the subject of a most extraordinary archæological blunder by the Governor-General, Lord Ellenborough, who, in a grandiloquent proclamation, identifying them with the gates of carved sandalwood which Mahmud according to tradition, had taken from the celebrated Hindu temple of Somnath in 1025, announced to the people of India that "the insult of eight hundred years had been avenged."

It has been supposed that the original gates were destroyed by fire, and that these were made to replace them, but there seems to be considerable doubt whether Mahmud really took away any gates from the Somnath temple.

SOMNATH, IDOL OF, "a mere mass of coarse crockery