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Show CAnnlCD OFF THC KOHINOOrt. Lerd Oalheusls Oreuoht Famous Stone From India to England. lord !)alhouUi' name will nlwaya be Intimately aiiclalel with the famous KiihlniHir diamond, and the nory of liuwr ho liniuajht It from India to Kniland has bvt-n retold In one of the new iHxiks In Un, after the second slkh r. Dalbousle conflscat-etl conflscat-etl the stone on account of the heary debt owIhk the IJast India company by the Ihore state. DatlHule sent It to Queen Victoria. (!rit caro had to he etcrclsed In carrying It across India. "Tho tassels of tho armlet. In which the diamond was set," saya tho accounr, "had been cut off to diminish dimin-ish tho bulk and Udy Ualhouslo bad Inclosed the armlet with Its Jewel In a leather bait, this again heliiK sewed Into a bi-tt Mneil with chamois leather, which thilhouslo wore hy nlchl and day Two dog were chained to tho Rorernor Rvneral'a camp bed and no one hut his wife and Capt Ittimnny were In the sicrel of tho Jewel's concealment con-cealment " |