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of my journey, was set down at Rungpore, which is distant two hun¬ 
dred and sixty miles from Calcutta. 
Upon my arrival at Rungpore, I found my progress impeded for the 
present, in consequence of the indispensable necessity of obtaining 
previous license for our admission into Bootan from the Daeb Raja, 
without whose special authority no person is permitted to enter the 
passes of the frontier mountains. Having therefore waited for an an¬ 
swer to the letters which I had dispatched to acquaint the Daeb Raja 
with our intended departure for his dominions, and received his pass¬ 
ports, I proceeded on my journey from Rungpore, accompanied by Mr. 
Davis and Mr. Saunders. 
We travelled in our palanquins; the road lay through an open 
level country, inferior to no part of Bengal in cultivation and fertility. 
The chief produce was rice, of which it yields two harvests in the year, 
and sometimes an intermediate crop of mustard seed : a great quan¬ 
tity of good tobacco grows also in this district, and some indigo. Wc 
came at noon to Calamatty, a plain of wide extent, sixteen miles from 
Rungpore, and having pitched our tents near the centre of it, with a 
small village upon our right, and a fordable brook in front, we halted 
for the remainder of the day. At night there came on an excessively 
high wind and heavy fall of rain, attended with thunder and lightning, 
which was succeeded at break of day, on Wednesday the 7th, by 
another storm equally violent and awful. 
It may be observed, that this sort of tremendous hurricane, which 
is not unfrequent at this season of the year, is distinguished by the 
name of 7 uffoon in Asia, and is known among the English in Bengal 
