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singing most lustily and merrily the song of liberty, and he readily yielded 

 his prize to me. In his canoe I dropped down the JBiiri Diking to its 

 mouth, taking the bearings of its numerous reaches, and noting the time. 

 I mention this incident as a note of the mode in which the survey was 

 performed. The JBuri Diking wanders through a forest as dense as that 

 of the parrellel river Disang, and the country between the two at that 

 time was said to be an inhospitable tract of rank jungle, without a vestige 

 of inhabitants. 



The fort of Jypur I found so much overgrown with high grass jungle, 

 that I must have passed it unawares, had not my guide pointed it out. It 

 is a square of three hundred and fifty yards, with a dry ditch of six feet 

 deep, the earth from which is thrown up in the form of a wall or bank six 

 feet high. 



My next employment was a survey of the river Dikko, which was 

 made under more favorable circumstances for arriving at accuracy, as the 

 distance by the bund road both to Kowarpara and to Ghergong was survey- 

 ed, and hills determined in position from this base served to correct the 

 remaining portion, but here as in the Disang, after arriving within a 

 certain distance of the hills, I found it impossible to proceed : it is similar 

 in character to the before named rivers. 



As my object is to give a connected view of the several steps of our 

 discoveries, I must not omit to mention Lieutenant Jones's Journal of his 

 March from Rangpur with the detachment, which I found at Bovkdtk on 

 my arrival there. 



The Journal was noticed in the Government Gazette of 23d of June, 

 and its contents though interesting, scarcely require repetition, as they 

 chiefly describe the embarrassments of a party moving on bad roads 



