Kywan Ja's marriage with that lady was never consummated.] [** She takes after her mother, and makes her worthy husband very miserable.

She is ill-tempered, haughty, and profligate.] An European lady, who visited the zunana of the King, Nuseer-od Deen Hyder, on the anniversary of his coronation, on the 18th of October, 1828, writes thus to a female friend:--"But the present King's wives were superbly dressed, and looked like creatures of the Arabian Tales.

Indeed, one (Taj Mahal) was so beautiful, that I could think of nothing but Lalla Rookh in her bridal attire.

I never saw any one so lovely, either black or white.

Her features were perfect, and such eyes and eye-lashes I never, beheld before.