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could be seen on the river on either side of the bridge.  Two steamers or ferry boats were to be seen.  The ride was [[?corled/soiled]] by passing rain squalls & by the speed of the train rushing at 40 miles an hour thru the still calm air.  Birds were quite numerous in the fields.  I saw many black drongos, plum colored rollers, white winged bitterns, anhingas or cormorants, gray headed rooks, vultures, etc.  
At 11:30 A.M. we reached Calcutta & I took a taxi to the Gt. Eastern Hotel.  Here I met MacDonald who I had seen at Darjeeling.  He is the agent of the Maingate Insurance company of Canada.  In the evening we went to the Empire