That he often mentioned the monkey during his delirium, is generally believed; and that his death was the consequence of his shooting that animal is the opinion of all the Hindoo, and a great part of the Musulman, population.

His death, while his father lived, deprived his son, Moomtaz-od Dowla, of the throne.] [** The Kooduseea Begum had been introduced into the palace as waiting-woman to Mulika Zumanee, whom she soon superseded in the King's affections, which she retained till her death.

She was married to the King on the 17th December, 1831, and died on the 21st of August 1834.] At Khyrabad there is a handsome set of buildings, consisting of a mausoleum over his father, a mosque, an _imambara_, and a _kudum rusool_, or shrine with the print of the prophet's foot, erected by Mucka Durzee, a tailor in the service of the King, who made a large fortune out of his master's favours, and who still lives, and provides for their repair and suitable endowment.

These buildings are, like all others of the same kind, infested by a host of professional religious mendicants of both sexes and all ages, who make the air resound with their clamours for alms.

Not only are such buildings so infested, but all the towns around them.