Recollections of Thirty-nine Years in the Army / Gwalior and the Battle of Maharajpore, 1843; the Gold Coast of Africa, 1847-48; the Indian Mutiny, 1857-58; the expedition to China, 1860-61; the Siege of Paris, 1870-71; etc.

by Sir Charles Alexander Gordon

[19] Gates of Somnath—​carried thence, A.D. 1024, by the conqueror, Mahmood of Guznee.

[20] Akbar the Great, A.D. 1556–1605.

[21] Taj Mahal-Bibi ke Roza, or Crown Lady’s tomb, erected over the remains of Mumtaz Mahal, the Pride of the Palace, wife of Shah Jehan. She died in childbed of her eighth child, A.D. 1629, at Berhampore in the Deccan, whence her body was carried and buried where the Taj now stands.

[22] The story of these events is concisely given in Sewell’s Analytical History of India, page 244.

[23] At the time commanded by Colonel Clunie.

[24] Eudynemus Orientalis.

[25] Poor L.E.L.! Further memories of her will recur hereafter.

[26] The words are so beautiful and pathetic that I transcribe them.

Float on, float on, my haunted bark,
Above the midnight tide;
Bear softly o’er the waters dark
The hopes that with thee glide.

Float on, float on, thy freight is flowers,
And every flower reveals
The dreaming of my lonely hours,
The hope my spirit feels.