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for a boat & was told there was no such thing
and sure enough when daylight came I saw
the havoc that had been made. Where there
had been a flourishing village called Koila
there was literally nothing, but a few naked
poles: not a boat to be seen where before there
had been scores. By 10 am the next day
(Thursday) which was a beautiful hot cloudless
day. I had dried my clothes & made myself
comparatively comfortable, but that nothing
could be got to eat at last I got five plantains.
Late in the day the village people on the
other side discovered the ferry boat.
It was a mile above the village & had been blown
to the top of the bund. They easily threw it
down the face of the bund towards the river,
but there was till some 200 feet to high
water mark, so they set about cutting a canal
for the boat hoping to float it at high tide
This they accomplished thanks to a very high
bore that came, & about 5 PM on Thursday
I crossed the Roopnarain. Up to the time at

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