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The river is a muddy red color.  The banks or land is a verdant green grown to bushes & small trees.  Flocks of small white terns with black caps followed up noisely upstream.  At dusk we dropped anchor for the night some miles up the river.  The navigation of the Hoogly is very difficult owing to the constantly shifting current.

(3)  Our progress up the river in the morning was past small steamers & boats anchored in the stream.  On either side a hundred yards away or so were the low green banks covered by bushes, coco palm & trees with a small village occasionally breaking the scrub.  At 11 A.M. we reached Calcutta which looked quite grand with the great Maiden about Fort William in the foreground & tall city blocks & domes in the distance.  The Bharata was