[Sidenote: 44. Fields of Wheat and Barley.] [Sidenote: 45. The Public Audience Hall, Fatehpur Sikri.] [Sidenote: 46. The Great Capital, Fatehpur Sikri.] [Sidenote: 47. Gate of Victory, Fatehpur Sikri.] Let us drive out from Agra southwestward on the road to Fatehpur Sikri, the city erected by the Emperor Akbar, but abandoned by his successors in favour of Agra. On the way, we note fields of wheat and barley, separated by an irrigation channel. We pass villages amid mango trees, and occasional ruins, and arrive at Fatehpur Sikri. There we enter the great quadrangle and the Public Audience Hall of the Palace, built of red sandstone. It was in this hall that Akbar used to sit on certain days to see personally anyone who had grievances to lay before him. Notice in the quadrangle the stone pierced with a hole which is fixed in the ground. Criminals were put to death by being trampled upon by an elephant, and to that ring the elephant was tied. We pass on to the Private Audience Hall of Akbar, the Diwan-i-Khas. Note the huge capital of the column in the centre. Tradition says that Akbar used to sit on the top of this capital. Finally, here is the magnificent Gate of Victory. [Sidenote: 48. Mausoleum of Akbar, Sikandra.] [Sidenote: 49. The Same—a Marble Inscription.] [Sidenote: 50. The Same—the Cloisters.] We leave Fatehpur Sikri, and drive back, past many other tombs, in the direction of the Cantonment at Agra until we come to the burial place of Akbar at Sikandra. This is the gateway of the great Mausoleum. Notice the cut marble inscriptions down the sides of the arch. They are quotations from the Koran. Here is a clearer photograph of a part of these inscriptions, and here we have the marble court above the tomb of Akbar. Round the Cloisters are verses celebrating his greatness. “Think not that the sky will be so kind as Akbar was,” is the tenor of one of them. [Sidenote: 51. Hariki Piri, Hardwar.] [Sidenote: 52. Sarwan Nath Temple, Hardwar.] [Sidenote: 53. The Same, from above.] [Sidenote: 54. Camels at Hardwar.]