text:  his remarks on which contain nothing noticeable except his mistaking some of the ancient portraits in the palace from their long beards and rosaries for the representations of Moslem divines we find him at last fairly in the midst of an English winter and an eyewitness of a spectacle of all others the most marvellous and incredible to a Hindustani and which Mirza Abu-Talib while describing it frankly confesses he cannot expect his countrymen to believe--the ice and the skaters in the Regent's Park