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Bengalis, some quite as black skinned as any negro.  The men often have heavy covering of black hair on the chest however.  Many of the children were naked & teir parents only half clad.  The road follows the main Trunk or E.I.R.R. & is a well macadamized & level road most of the way.  Much of the time we travelled at 35 miles an hour.  After leaving Burdwan we continued onto [[?Ranagel]] which we reached at dark at 9 P.M.  Here we stopped in the Dak Bungalow.  Our distance from Calcutta by road was 120 miles.  During the darkness we met many nightjars on the roadway & saw one  

Transcription Notes:
Macadamized = type of road construction