VI. 



JOURNEY 



ACROSS THE 



PANDUA HILLS, NEAR SILHET, IN BENGAL. 



By H. WALTERS, Esq. 



Left Dacca on the night of the 19th October 1828, and passed through 

 an uninteresting inundated country, with scattered villages stuck on little 

 islands, which barely sufficed to keep the people's heads above water. At 

 daylight, on the 26th, arrived at Chatak, and breakfasted with Mr. Inglis, 

 a respectable lime merchant. The bangalo is situated on a pretty little hill, 

 close to the river Surma. This place is about a day's journey from Silhet. 

 Started at eleven, and crossed the Haxiras to Pandua. The Hauras are 

 extensive jhils or lakes covered with reed and rose jungle, having open 

 expanses of water, many of them a mile across — while in other places the 

 jungle is so thick it is with difficulty a boat can be impelled through it. 

 The depth of water is, in many places, ten or twelve feet. They extend 

 for many miles along the foot of the hills. In the dry season, the 

 water runs off, and leaves an extensive waste, to be occupied by buffalos 

 and tigers, and the Barasinga, or large Silhet stag, having six distinct 



