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There is no apparent literary [[strikethrough]] work [[/strikethrough]] investigation or scientific being done in Calcutta at least the libraries of both the A.S. & the Museum are quite unused, only the librarians & their assistants being in evidence.  This afternoon as I was returning from Kidderpur I met Cook's manager who told me that the Teesta would sail tomorrow at 8 A.M. instead of 5 P.M.

23   At 8 A.M. I left the Hotel in a taxi for Outram dock 10 minutes away where we boarded a launch and steamed down the river to below the Botanic Gardens where the Teesta was at anchor in mid stream.