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cultivation. Some of my people were murdered, and 

 several wounded. See following extract from Dr. Sber- 

 locks, assistant surgeon, East India Company. 



" The Coolies (laborers,) who have come in wounded 

 from Ningrew, are in great danger of their lives. The 

 individual who has submitted to have his arm amputated, 

 will probably recover ; the other refuses to submit to an 

 operation, and will certainly not live many days." 



The following are letters of gentlemen, on that attack. 

 From Col. Francis Jenkins, Gowhattee, Governor of the 

 North East Provinces : 



u The misfortune that befell you, it was not in th6 

 power of the local officers to prevent or remedy. 



" I never ceased to regret the circumstances which 

 caused you to retire from manufacturing, as it always 

 appeared to me that of all persons who have embarked 

 in those speculations, you were the most likely to suc- 

 ceed, and to do justice to our indigenous tea, and our 

 capabilities of raising China teas, by your unremitting 

 activity, and the ability you evidently had evinced. * 



" I can assure you I shall welcome your return to 

 Assam cordially, for I know of no one more likely to 

 turn our resources to account." 



GOWHATTEE, January, 1849. 



Major John Bracken, Assistant Adjutant General, 

 wrote : 



" I became acquainted with Mr. Bonynge in Assam, 

 and whose unmerited sufferings while there, and the 

 energy with which he bore up with them, engaged my 

 pity and esteem." 



