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Show OLD tlUIND AttB HIS DELIQHT. dUh ItclMar Haa SI.. I. IIUaovaflM In Alie"ot till.. The Swedl.h explorer, Dr 8ven Iledln, has made valuable additions to the present day knowledge of n.iclent Peoples nnd their homes lie Is now on his e mill tour of exploration In the least known nans of central Asia He Is nm only dlstlngnlthed as nn oriental .holr In nrrhaeology and Phllolog) tmt he Is a geologist, an astronomer a snuloglet, a botanlat, a Hoarapher a surveor and a compe-tmt compe-tmt artist while at the samo tlmo he fields ihe pen of a ready and skillful "rller Ills srruinpllihinents are so "any so varied and so remsrkable that none ,,f the title ordinarily applied ap-plied la mm of learning meets his "is His natural history collections, aa ell as his other collections made la the Indies are of exceptional value. Dr even Iledln was thoroughly and slmlrshly prepsred for his exploring work before he began It. It was more than twelve months ago that he set out from Kashgar on hla second tour, nnd It was bis design to get back to Europe Eu-rope early In ihe present year, after ha had explored the sources ot the Indus. It la already known that rich u wtrs the results ot his former Jour-nr, Jour-nr, they have been far surpassed by those ot a more recent time, and tho record ot them will undoubtedly bo of ttrsordlnary Interest He has col-1 col-1 lected not only the talcs and tradl-1 tradl-1 tlons, but also many relies ot tho - ruined cities he has seen It wss at I tl. It..!!... ..........il.... it.. I tt.. lia. roy of India, Ixinl Curton, mado his visit a fiw months ago to the mlna ot the city ot Uljapur, In the province ot tlombay, for tho purpose of examining the historic architecture ot ancient India. Though the city la less known than almost any other Mohammedan ruins, It Is said to excel them all In beauty, some of the edlflcr-a having beta eren grander than the Alham-bra Alham-bra ot Spain It was onco renowned for lis palaces, temples, towers, tombs snd walls, at the sight of which, as an Inscription declares, "Heaven Itsolt nondered" Hut tho hordes of Mara-thss Mara-thss fell upon It at Its most brilliant period, played havoc with lr "lories, rsduced It to desolation and slew mul titudes ot Its Inhabitants, though It had a population of more than a million. mil-lion. When Ihe region and the place were brought directly under Urltlah rule, about half a century ago, there were but a few thousand wretched people at Uljapur, and I-ord Curton found during his recent visit that the remaining parte ot some ot the most splendid palacea and tombs had been "fixed up" so as to adapt them for use aa Jails, courts and government offices "The spider," so sang the poet of o'd, "weaves its wob on the tomb of Vu-sub; Vu-sub; tho owl atanda sentry there" |