down the Chandni Chauk in an
elephant procession on 23rd December, 1912, that Lord Hardinge was
wounded by a bomb thrown from one of the houses. From the Chauk one may
pass through the Queen's Gardens and Road to the opening in the wall
where the Kabul Gate once stood and so leave the City. A tablet in the
vicinity marks the spot where John Nicholson fell.

[Illustration: Fig. 144. Kashmir Gate.]

[Illustration: Fig. 145. Map of Delhi City.]

When visiting the old Delhis it is a good plan to drive again through
the City and to leave it by the Delhi Gate. Humayun's tomb, an early and
simple, but striking, specimen of Moghal architecture, is reached at a
distance of four miles along the Mathra road. Outside the City the road
first leaves on the left side the ruined citadel of Firoz Shah
containing the second Asoka pillar. North and south of this citadel
the town of Firozabad once lay. It ended where the Purana Kila' or Old
Fort, the work of Sher Shah and Humayun, now stands, a conspicuous
object from the road about three miles from Delhi. The red sandstone
gateway very narrow in proportion to its height is a noble structure,
and within the walls is Sher Shah's mosque. The fort and mosque are the
last important works of the second or Tughlak period. Hindus call the
site of the Old Fort, Indarpat. If any part of Delhi has a claim to
antiquity it is this, for it is alleged to be one of the five "pats" or
towns over which the war celebrated in the Mahabharata was waged. A
recent cleaning of part of the interior of the fort brought to light
bricks belonging to the Gupta period. From Humayun's tomb a cross road
leads to the Gurgaon road and the Kutb. But the visitor who has seen
enough of buildings for the day may proceed further down the Mathra road
and reach the headworks of the Agra Canal at Okhla by a side road. The
view looking back to Delhi up the Jamna is fine.

~The Kutb Minar.~--Starting for the Kutb from Humayun's tomb (page 207)
the Dargah of the great Chisti saint and political intriguer, Nizam ud
din Aulia, is passed on the left. He died in 1324 A.D. Just at the point
where the cross road meets the Gurgaon road is the tomb of Safdar Jang,
the second of the Nawab Wazirs of Oudh. He died after the middle of the
eighteenth century, and the building is wonderfully good considering
that it is one of the latest important monuments of the Moghal period.
Six miles to the south of Safdar Jang's tomb the entrance to the K