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(19)  Spent the day shopping & motoring about Calcutta.

(20)  MacDonald took me up country in his Buick car for a few days Insurance work.  We got away at 12 o'clock but made slow progress getting out of Calcutta amid the bullock carts.
The first 30 miles the road ran thru narrow lanes with trees & huts on either side & goats, dogs & children in the streets wherever villages were to be seen.  At 5 P.M. we reached Burdwan station & took tiffin in the Station house.  The road up this point extends thru the rice fields bordered by banyans & other trees.  Field of jute or hemp were often passed amid the light green of the new rice.  The village people were all