Original (English)

CHAPTER I O ye who tread the Narrow Way By Tophet-flare to Judgment Day, Be gentle when “the heathen” pray     To Buddha at Kamakura! He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher—the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam-Zammah, that “fire-breathing dragon”, hold the Punjab, for the great green-bronze piece is always first of the conqueror’s loot. There was some justification