FALSE POINT HARBOUR 59 



Jaganath at Puri, one of the most venerated objects 

 of their religion. Nor is this part of the coast 

 without a certain historic interest for Anglo-Indians, 

 for it seems that some of the earliest English sea- 

 ventures to Bengal made their way, not up the 

 Hooghly, but up the Mahanaddi in the direction of 

 Cuttack. 



During these three months our programme was 

 hard work from break of day on Monday until the 

 stroke of noon on Saturday, with shooting excursions 

 — for the swamps and backwaters were a paradise 

 for wildfowl, and the scrub-jungle swarmed with deer 

 — ^on Saturday and Sunday afternoon, whenever possible. 



When the ship was sounding out to the loo- 

 fathom line frequent hauls of the trawl were taken, 

 and when she dropped anchor at night the tow-net 

 was always shot overboard and left adrift until the 

 anchor was weighed in the morning. The small hand- 

 dredge was also often used in the anchorages, and 

 lobster-pots were set in many places ; so that, by these 

 means, and by occasionally accompanying landing- 

 parties, I was able to make many observations, and 

 good collections of the zoology of the Orissa littoral, 

 to which I shall return in due time. I may, however, 

 mention here that the tale of our successful trawlings 

 in shallow water was twenty-seven. 



False Point, where our survey began, is a poor 



