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that our next clay's journey might be shorter. In the evening Mr. 
Webb and my servant went into the jungle to look for game : I 
accompanied them on horseback. They killed a fox and partridge, 
and saw some deer and peacocks. 
July 30. — ^The night was very rainy, and continued so till ten 
o'clock in the morning, when we began our journey on the ele- 
phants. A small hollow, which had hardly the vestige of water in 
it the evening before, was now so deep as to render it necessary to 
transport our palanquins and pataras on the elephants ; this caused 
a considerable delay. The sun darted out occasionally, and ren- 
dered the heat oppressive. The country was more pleasing, as we 
advanced, being better cultivated, and slightly undulated. Ban- 
gernow is prettily situated on a small rise, surrounded with mango 
topes, and a nullah running close to it. Aware of this, we had 
sent on the baggage-elephants, with our advance-tents. They still 
waited there, and carried over the rest of the luggage. This place 
also has the appearance of having formerly been more considerable 
than it now is. Every town we have passed is built of brick, with 
the ruins far more extensive than the habitable part. Numbers 
quitted these provinces to become cultivators in ours, encouraged 
by the protection which they y^ere sure to receive, and many others 
have constantly entered our armies. The recruiting is so extremely 
difficult in Bengal and Bahar, that our armies could not be kept 
up, were it not for the supplies obtained from the Vizier's domi- 
nions, which is strong proof of the comfort the inhabitants of the 
East enjoy under the British Government. 
We came to a nullah adjoining the Ganges about six o'clock, 
when it immediately began to rain again : it had held up during 
