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even the wind in her notice, and thus it is again almost useless. It is 

 scarcely necessary to add that both the Rob Roy and Swallow were dis- 

 masted through errors of judgment, but of different kinds. The Rob 

 Roy might have ran down and hove too* on the Southern, and the 

 Swallow on the Northern sides of the Cyclone, with perfect safety. 



{To be Continued.) 



A narrative of our connexions with the Dusannee and Cheannee Gar- 

 rows, with a short account of their country. — By Cajpt. C. S. 

 Reynolds, Principal Assistant to the Commissioner of Assam. 



The Dusannee and Cheannee country, is bounded on the South- 

 west by the Cullunkee river, and to the East by the Gograh river, 

 which descends from the Garrow hills, and separates the purgunnahs of 

 Mechpara and Caloomaloopara. To the South it is bounded by the 

 country of the independent Garrows, and to the North by the last 

 named purgunnah. 



Although we have hitherto considered the Dusannee and Cheannee 

 Garrows as separate tribes, I believe they are both one " Abengyas," 

 and that this distinction without a difference has arisen merely from 

 the circumstance of their bordering on those portions of Caloomaloo- 

 para held by the ten anna and six anna sharers respectively. They 

 consider themselves as one and the same people, and I doubt whether 

 any of them have an idea why they have been called Cheannees and 

 Dusannees, except perhaps those who border immediately on the plains. 

 I was unable during my tour through their hills to discover that any 

 line of demarcation had been laid down between the two mehauls by 

 the former zemindars, and indeed there was no necessity for any, until 

 the estate of Caloomaloopara became divided into shares, which occurred 

 at a time when the Garrows had thrown off even the name of allegiance 

 to the zemindars. 



* With a little more sea-room she might have run to the Southward till her Baro- 

 meter rose a little, when the wind would, by the Cyclone passing on, have hauled 

 rapidly to the West and S. W. and she might have made a fair wind round the West- 

 ern quadrants of it. She unfortunately hove too in the direct track of the centre : 

 a S. S. W. course, for a few hours would have given her good sea-room and the 

 North-Westerly, Westerly and S. Westerly gales of the Southern and S. Eastern 

 quadrants, with which, and daylight, she might safely have passed the Scarborough 

 Shoal. 



