Travel Diaries and Journals

Travel Diaries and Journals

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Abstract log of the E. I. Ship Clarence, 1864-1891.

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p. 69

side The Gaspar Floating light arranged with the "Victoria" steam Tug to tow the ship to Calcutta fro R. 1800

October 14th

am at 5.30 Weighed & proceeded & tow of the "Victoria" through the [Gaspar?] channel. at 8 Sangor Light House NE 1/2 E Modte [Moderate] North wind & fine at 11.45 anchored off Mud Point in 6 fms [fathoms] Observed numbers of dead bodies floating by & the bank of the river was strewed with the bodies of men & animals.

October 15th

am at 7 Weighed & proceeded in tow at 9.30 Passed Diamond Harbour at 10.30 passed the James & Marys at 11 caught in an eddy both hawsers parted & the ship grounded forward on the bank of the river. at 11.30 The steamer towed the ship off the bank. anchored in 8 fms [fathoms] & veered to 15 fms [fathoms] at 1.30 PM weighed &

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p. 148

at Mud Point the house was found standing, all the bunds being washed away & traces of the fury of the storm everywhere visible. At Diamond Harbour the "Bentick" Sanatarium had drifted anchor & all over the land; an Arab ship was sunk in Rangafulla Channel (island) another at Hospital Point; trees blown down everywhere & some torn up by the roots. The banks of the river as well as the river itself, were dotted with the bodies of cattle & human beings, further up the effects of the storm appears thicker & more disastrous from the more populous nature of the districts, all the villages on the banks of the river being razed to the ground.

Midnapore

The following letter from Midnapore gives a graphic description of the storm by one who was travelling from Ooloobariah & was caught in the midst of it.

I left Calcutta (Garden Reach) at 5 PM on Tues- day Octr [October] 4th & reached Ooloobariah at about 7.30 PM

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