Feb. 1818. 



MADDAOBUND. 



features in this part of Bengal, appeared to be common, 

 with fields of rice and broad acres of flax and rape, through 

 the latter of which the blue Orobanclie indica swarmed. 

 The short route to Maddaobund, through narrow rocky 

 vallies, was impracticable for the elephants, and we had to 

 make a very considerable detour, only reaching that village 

 at 2 p.m. All the hill people we observed were a fine- 

 looking athletic race ; they disclaimed the tiger being a 

 neighbour, which every palkee-bearer along the road declares 

 to carry off the torch-bearers, torch and all. Bears they said 

 were scarce, and all other wild animals, but a natural jealousy 

 of Europeans often leads the natives to deny the existence 

 of what they know to be an attraction to the proverbially 

 sporting Englishman. 



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OLD TAMARIND TREKS. 



