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least 400 hundred people had accumulated at the
ghaut hoping to get across & I had some
difficulty first to procure myself a passage
when the boat arrived, & secondly to prevent
too many people coming into her. Thus I had
been 35 hours at this river & with next to
nothing to eat. On arriving on the other side
I found my fresh bearers had gone away.
My old ones being nearly starved refused to take
my on but they got a lackey for my palkee
& I walked the next stage where I found a
Thannah (a station) & was fed & provided for
arriving at Midnapore at 6 am on Friday
Anything like the desolation on the road I
never saw. It is no exaggeration to say ther is
not a single house standing . The Darogah
(superintendent) told me that up to the time he
was speaking to me he had received reports of the deaths
of 224 named persons within his Thannah alone,
at Tumlook only 27 houses & they pucka are
standing out of 1400. The pucka house in which I
took refuge had had its top story blown down.

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