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single camp. And it seemed best, from such information as we 

 had at hand, that those observers who had the most complicated 

 in>truments should go out in R.M.S. Ballaarat, with Mr. 

 Thwaites, and should form a camp at Talni or Pulgaon two 

 villages on the G.I.P. railway, where the latter cuts the line of 

 totality whilst the second party, coming out in R.M.S. Egypt, 

 should try and occupy some position near the banks of the 

 Ganges where they might obtain hotel accommodation in some 



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large town, which would entirely do away with the need of 

 camping out at all. We therefore addressed ourselves to the 

 India Office, asking them to recommend us to the different 

 lnr-al governments in India for their assistance in the position in 

 which we found ourselves placed; and we left England necessarily 

 without having heard what preparations would be made for us, 

 or precisely where we should have to take up our stations. 



E. WALTER MAUNDER 

 JOHN M. BACON 



[ Secretaries. 



