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Bengalis some quite as black
stirred as any negro. The
men often have heavy curls
of black hair on the chest,
homewere. Many of the
children were mulatto
their parents only half
colad. The road follows
the Grand Trunk R or E. G. RR
& is a well macadamized
level road most of the
way. Much of the time
we recent travelled at
35 miles an hour, after
leaving Burdwan we
embarked into Bamanagel
which we reached at half
at 9 P.M. Here we stopped
in the Lake Bengalown Our
distance from Chander
by road was 120 miles.
During the last days we
met many night-jars on the
roadway & saw one