36 
DECEMBER 1764: JANUARY 1765. 
The Countrey from Gurnuddy to Sastenagor is mostly Jungle, & consequently 
very thinly inhabited. Below Sastenagore it begins to be more open. Sastenagore 
is about 16 miles below Gurnuddy. 
32 The 31st. in y e Evening passed Burryshel, 1 a Bazar Village a little below Saste- 
nagore ; opposite Burryshel a large Creek runs out to y e 
the needle 1 i° a ^4^\^ese° Ur Eastward, & is known to the Boatmen by the name of 
Durgapour Creek ; through it lies y e common Rout from 
Luckvpour to Backergunge.* 
Four miles below Burryshel, the River divides into four Branches, the Eastmost 
to Gobindapour & y e Sea, the Southmost to Backergunge, & y e two Western ones to 
Sewtylewry, which is situated two Par from thence. 
January 1st. 1765, at 3 PM arrived at Backergunge, which lies on a very small 
Creek about 14 miles below the four Creeks. It lies in Eatitude 22°-36' or 37' North, 
about 16 miles from the Great Ganges, 74 from Dacca & 116 from Calcutta. The 
Inhabitants report that the Sea is about 20 miles to the SSEb 
Having now compleated the survey of the Ganges &c. I proceeded to construct a 
Set of Maps of it, on a Scale proper for common Use * to 
* 2 miles to an men. ... 
be divided into 3 parts, each on a Sheet of Royal Paper, 
& a fourth Sheet to contain the whole on a Scale of 10 English Miles to an Inch, & a 
Plan of Luckypour. 
33 The 2nd. in the Morning set out for Euckypour in our way to Dacca, where I 
must proceed in order to get a supply of Money. Nothing 
The 6th in ye Morning one of the ^ ^ o irir 
Sepoys was taken off by a Tyger remarkable happened in our Passage, save that we took 
from ye Northwest part of Dao- 
kytya island, he having stept ashore our Rout through Durgapour Creek, 1 3 * & that the 5th. 
in the Morning a fresh Gale of Wind drove all the Boats 
ashore on y e J ungle Islands off of Euckypour ; the Budgarow was got off again with- 
out Damage, by carrying out a Grapnel. That Morning the Air was very sharp, 
(occasioned by a Northerly Wind). 
The 8th. at Night arrived at Dacca. Still employed on the Maps. Weather 
mostly Calm since the 5th. 
From the 8th. to y e 12th. at Dacca. Hired some new Boats &c. One of my 
European Assistants having cut a Dandy V Ear off, I delivered him prisoner to the 
Chief, 5 agreeable to his Desire. 
1 Barisal the headquarters of Bakarganj district, now a town of over 18,000 inhabitants, I he Imperial Gazetteer 
states that in the middle of the eighteenth century it was an important salt chuuki or place where salt-tax was paid, but 
on Rennell’s map it is shown as a very small village. 
a Bakarganj. The head-quarters of the district were transferred from here to Barisal in 1801, It is described in 
correspondence of about this period as “ the last place in India on which anyone would wish to build (Ascoli). The 
southern part of the district was much subject to ravages by Magh pirates from Arakan in the seventeenth and 
eighteenth centuries. On one of Rennell’s maps, Bengal Atlas No. XX, it is marked “ country depopulated by 
the Muggs. ’ ’ 
3 The creek F, of Barisal. 
1 Dandy, a boatman, a term peculiar to the Gaugetic rivers, from Hind. & Beng. dand, a staff or oar (Hobson 
Jobson, p. 296). 
5 The Resident in charge of the Factory. This was probably Mr. Beycester, who was certainly Chief of the Factory 
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