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He sei'ved under seven different kings, but devoted 
himself chiefly to the works to which he owes his 
reputation. He died at the age of 74, in the year of 
the Hejra 7-5. His tomb still exists in the old town 
of Delhi, which is about three miles from the present 
oity. Every year on the l/th of Shawal, a fair is 
held there in honour of Nizam-ud-din Awliä, his 
Pir or patron saint. 
C,—De. LEITNER’S MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS. 
These collections extended through every group of the Vienna Classification (as entered in the 
Indian catalogue), with the addition of 177 articles, comprising the ethnographical collection from 
Dardistan (countries between Kashmir and Badakhshan), Great, Middle, and Little Tibet, 
Yarkand, Ivhotan, and other parts of Central Asia (vide Dr. Leitner’s detailed catalogue D.), not 
classified in the Vienna catalogue, whose “ Groups ” are herewith adopted : 
Group I.—Mining, Quarrying, and 
Metallurg y. 
1. Stones, samples of gold dust, &c. from Tibet 
and Ghilghit valley. 
2. Specimen of salt from Kheora mines. 
The Indian Government derives a considerable 
income from the Kheora mines. In its vicinity 
there is a mountain of gypsum, out of which, in its 
natural state, cups, &e. are manufactured, of which 
two specimens have been sent to Vienna. 
Group II.—Agriculture, Horticulture, 
AND FORESTRY. 
1. Dried plants of the Himalajas between Kulu 
and Ghilghit. 
2. Specimens of cocoons from the Panjab and 
Bokhara. 
3. 1,600 Himalayan butterflies and moths, and 
1,600 beetles (from Kulu, Dharmsala, &c., &c) 
4. Specimens of Shawl wool from the Tibetan goat. 
5. Charas from Yarkand. (Charas is a gummy 
exudation from the flower heads of the hemp, a 
favourite narcotic largely smoked in water pipes with 
tobacco, in India and Central Asia.) 
6. Wheat from Ladak. 
Group III.—Section II. C.—Raw Products 
FOR PhARMACY. 
1. Elachis (little grains to sweeten the breath). 
2. Esop Gul (native medicine against dysentery.) 
Group IV.—Substances of Food as 
Products of Industry. 
1. Specimen of Lhassa brick tea. 
This tea is pressed in the form of a brick, and is 
prepared, when used, with butter and salt. It is pre 
ferred to all other teas by the natives of Central Asia 
and Tibet, but the supply bas lately ceased from 
China on account of tbe recent wars with the Mu- 
hammadans of Yarkand. 
Note to Groups II., III., and IV. 
1600 Himalayan hutterflies and moths, and 
1,600 heetles (from Kulu, Dharmsala, &c. &c.). j 
The report on these hutterflies, is reserved for an 
entomologist, who will also he able to put together 
the smashed beetles. The hutterflies are very 
striking in colour and, like the beetles, offer many 
new specimens. Some of the moths are strikingly 
large, and there are also several “ oakleaf ” butterflies, 
which, as is known, escape the pursuit of both the 
hirds and insects that feed on them by folding them- 
selves, when tbey look exactly like a dry leaf. 
With regard to the collection of minerals, 
auriferous sand, &c, in the Ghilghit valley, and the 
collection of plants with which time has played 
havoc, they have equally to be reserved for the 
examination of naturalists, but at present add to 
the completeness of the collections made by Dr. 
Leitner. 
Group IV. A special brand of Burma cheroots, 
remarkable for their flavour, was hrought over in 
order to introduce a cheap and wholesome tobacco 
into Europe. They were, however, detained at the 
Orsowa Custom House. 
Group V.—Textile Industry and Clothing. 
1. Dresses, caps, girdles, boots, stockings, &c. from S 
Dardistan, Tibet, Central Asia, and Northern India. 
Under this liead fall many of the articles described 
in the Ethnographical Catalogue D. 
This ethnographical collection and No. 2 have 
received a medal of merit. 
2. Silk fabrics, handkerchiefs, and scarfs from 
Bokhara, Ivhotan, and Yarkand. 
The manufacture of silk is the occupation of every 
Turki household from China to the Sea of Marmora, 
near where (at Brussa) the best silk is still produced. 
Bokhara silkworms are much prized, but have not 
yet succeeded in the Panjab or Asia Minor. (At- 
tempts are now made in Kashmir to domiciliate the 
sükworm.) The Japanese worm, ivhich is of an in 
ferior kind, seems to get acclimatised in Asia Minor, 
and should be tried in the Panjab and Kashmir. 
These fabrics are interesting as indicating the taste 
of the Central Asiatics as regards the price they are 
willing to pay and the patterns which they affect, 
and which might be looked at in connexion with 
Waratschägin’s striking Central Asian pictures at the 
Crystal Palace. 
3. Blanket from camel hair (Kabul). 
Pattu (rough woollen stufij from Ladak. 
Rampur chaddar. 
Kashmir shawl. 
Gauzes, silks. 
4. A pair of Hindustani tinsel slippers. 
Seven caps (embroidered in gold and silver tinsel) 
for boys. Made in the Punjab. 
Dress of gold thread (Jamdani) for a boy, with a 
cape to mateh. 
Dress of the same kind for a girl. 
A Kemkhab eloak (purple and gold). 
Two embroidered table-covers from Sind. 
Two embroidered cusluons from Sind.