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"The city of Agra is a great place, swarming with
fanatics and fierce devil worshippers of all sorts. Our handful

of men were lost among the narrow, winding streets. Our
leader moved across the river, therefore, and took up his
position in the old fort of Agra. I don't know if any of you
gentlemen have ever read or heard anything of that old fort.
It is a very queer place—the queerest that ever I was in, and

I have been in some rum corners, too. First of all it is
enormous in size. I should think that the enclosure must be
acres and acres. There is a modern part, which took all our

garrison, women, children, stores, and everything else, with
plenty of room over. But the modern part is nothing like the
size of the old quarter, where nobody goes, and which is
given over to the scorpions and the centipedes. It is all full
of great deserted halls, and winding passages, and long

corridors twisting in and out, so that it is easy enough for
folk to get lost in it. For this reason it was seldom that
anyone went into it, though now and again a party with

torches might go exploring."

“阿格拉是一个很大的城，聚居着各种各样稀奇古怪而又可怕的魔
鬼信徒。在曲曲折折的狭窄街道里，我们损失了一些人。因此，我们

的长官迁移至河对岸，在阿格拉古堡里驻扎起来。不知你们几位当
中，有没有人听说过或读到过这个古堡？这个古堡是一个很奇怪的地

方——我虽然到过不少稀奇古怪的地方，可是，这是我生平所见的最
奇怪的地方。首先，它庞大得很。我估量着占了好几英亩。古堡一部

分是现代式的，容纳了我们的全部军队、妇孺、辎重和其他所有东
西，还绰绰有余。可这个较新的部分还远比不上古老的那一部分大，

没有人到那里去，蝎子、蜈蚣盘踞在那里。旧堡里边全是空无人迹的

大厅、曲曲折折的甬道和蜿蜒迂回的长廊，走进去的人很容易迷路。
因此，很少有人到旧堡里去，可是偶尔也有拿着火把的人们结伙进去

探险。”

"The river washes along the front of the old fort, and so
protects it, but on the sides and behind there are many