text:  While engaged in preparing for his voyage the khan made the best use of his time in visiting the public buildings and other objects of interest among which he particularly notices the _minar_ or column erected in the _maidan_ (square ) near the viceregal palace of the Nawab Governor-General Bahadur by a subscription among the officers of the army native as well as English to the memory of the late Sir David Ochterlony; but rates it with truth as greatly inferior both in dimensions and beauty to the famous pillar of the Kootb-Minar near Delhi