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Visit to 



Dewangari. 







Names of villages in 



Doiver 



Cheannee Garrow Mehauls, 



1. 



Rabungiri. 









14. 



Maudaparah. 



2- 



Markhagiri. 









15. 



Tangreeparrah. 



3. 



Lengparah. 









16. 



Juchaparrah. 



4. 



Kolaparrah. 









17. 



Bichdokparah. 



5. 



Rakhoparrah. 









18. 



Kh or changparah . 



6. 



Khosurparah. 









19. 



Malugiri. 



7. 



Sindaparah. 









20. 



Sangbuck. 



8. 



Bindangiri. 









21. 



Boreeparrah. 



9. 

 10. 



Runggoogiri. 

 Boreeparrah 1st. 









22. 

 23. 



Romogiri. 

 Domreegiri. 



11. 



Chomreekparah. 









24. 



Rammnggiri. 



12. 



Dangrungparah. 









25. 



Mansangiri. 



13. 



Dingsaparah. 













[Jan. 



Visit to Dewangari. — By Lieut. E. T. Dalton, 9th N. I. 



I yesterday carried out my project of paying Dewangari a visit, and 

 I must give you an account of my excursion. 



On the 14th January, I halted at Soonbunkotta, from which I had been 

 informed, I might go to Dewangari and return the same day, but when 

 I declared my intention of proceeding next morning I was told it could 

 not be done. The days being now so short, however I was determined 

 on making the attempt, and sent up to tell the Rajah I was coming. 

 We started at 8 a. m., and though on the preceding evening all were 

 expatiating on the difficulties of the road, endeavouring to dissuade me 

 from going, I now found all the villages and pergunnah authorities 

 anxious to accompany me, and I had not less than a hundred followers, 

 consisting of the Wuzeers of the Dooar Borkot and Sella, their Patwa- 

 rees and Takooriahs, and a body of Cachari volunteers. 



For the first two miles our route lay over a grassy plain partially 

 cultivated by the Soonbunkotta villagers, which the Dia river in its 

 various wanderings had strewn with large stones. A table-land rises 

 from this, shewing a bold cliff towards the plain, and giving a breadth 

 of from one to two miles of flat surface to the foot of the hills. At the 



