Travel Diaries and Journals

remained on bd. all the rest of the day reading (one in a thousand) Capt. & Dibbs went ashore shooting in the afternoon Dibbs shot 2 doves Cassiagne & I pulled the Captn. off in the jolly in the evg. dressed in Holland all

Thursday Jany. 6th 1859

Capt. & Mrs. E went on shore this mg. before I got up read One in a thousand till breakfast time dies Sed after breakfast. Finished (one in a thousand) about dinner time After dinner tried to paddle a native canoe. pulled the jolly myself with a Mugh in it. frightened him by shoving off into the stream Dibbs & I Rum Toely[?] at 1/2 past 7. Turned in about nine.

Friday Jany 7th. 1858.[1859]

up about seven. had a bath. did not go ashore. dressed & read a few Chapters of Travels &

Adventures in South Africa. [written above: 1/2 past 8] Mrs. Eales has just got word that Johnson's Schooner is outside. read Wandering in South Africa by Steadman all day,) Notes from Johnson & Morriss came up this afternoon for Bowen Dibbs Cassiagni. Bowen & Dibbs went down in the Cutter between 5 & 6. Chatted with the Capt. & Mrs. E. in the evening.

Saturday Jany. 8th. 1858.[1859]

Up about 6 this morning. Capt. has [written above:(8ocl)] just returned from shore with a report that he has just seen the smoke of a Steamer. (So says Cassiagni) evening proved steamer had not arrived. Cassiagni & I pulled in the jolly with the Cutters Oars. Capt. & I agreed to walk up to Sandoway tomorrow morning at 6 oclock.

Todypaura

Sunday Jany. 9th. 1859

Capt. & I started [struck through:todau] this morg. at six oclock to walk to Sandoway. Oru servants were to follow bringing a change of clothing. we walked at a rapid rate through paddy fields jungle small hills & broken roads. the women all rushed into ther houses as we passed & the children alsso were frightened for us. we came to the New road about 7 oclock it extends 1 1/2 miles from Sandoway already & resembled the Queens drive Edinr. at the starting point as it winds round a hill. the road is being made by Mr. Beddy he having a grant from the Govt. for it. We arrived in Sandoway about 7:15 the Commissioner Dr. Pettayall & Mr. Beddy had all left for Napelly sometine before. the Capt. & I went across to Mr.

send down a poney to Todypaura for my use while we remained there We dined at Beddy's. Mr. & Mrs. Beddy, the Capt. & I. Cassiagni Mick Paul & Grady. All very Aquable. Capt. & I left a little after nine & went down in the Gig. Mixture produced emesis on the road down combined with a cheroot got on bd. about 1/2 past 10 & turned in

Monday Jany. 10th. 1859

Up at six. Wrote a note to Henricks for the Capt. Asking use of his house & sent back the clothes I got from him yesterday. Henricks came on bd. after dinner. told the Capt. he might have his house. went down to try to go up the Creek in the paddle box boat. Could not find sufficient water. only took a

man up to the Kaea at the entrance. returned on bd. & had a dispute about the word at motion turning.

Tuesday Jany. 11th. 1859

Capt. Mrs. Eales & Edith went up to Sandoway this mg. to take up quarters on shore while the ship was being painted. reading the Pacha of Many Tales today. the poney promised by Henricks has come down & is on shore beside the Creek for me. Bowen & Dibbs went ashore shooting. I went ashore at 5 & rode about 2 miles in the direction of Sandoway, through paddy fields Saw the Cutter Coming from Sandoway from which place it had been with the Captain. returned at dusk to the Creek & went on bd. in the PB. boat told the Sigee through the boat & wallah to come in the mg. at 5.30

Wednesday Jany. 12th 1859

Went ashore this morning at 6.30. poney had not arrived Sent a lascar to find the poney walked along the road & met the man coming with it. mounted poney went off at the gallop in drawing him up broke the reins jumped off & caught him by the head. spliced the reins with a flexible branch of tree. Mounted again & had a pleasant ride in the direction of Singh Gong returned on board about 7.30. ordered the poney at 1/2 past 4 read the Pacha of Many tales. Bowen went out on the poney. Cassiagni & I went up at 1/4 [struck through:past] to 5 in the PB Boat to Sandoway. Cassiagni Called at Beddy's to see whether there were letters & I sent a man to the Capts. waited more that 1/2 an hour for Cassiagni at Beddy's went to the Bazaar & walked round.

Cassiagni old Burman toss up a mugh promised to come down to Todypaura with hod. got on board about 12 ocl very tedious trip tide against both ways [drawn: circle with two bars]

Thursday Jany. 13th. 1859

Up between 6 7& this mg. & took a ride in shore. went near to some jungle about two miles distant from the ship. a rustling in the jungle poney started & turned back at full tilt seen nothing. got a fine pair of horns from a native. before breakfast time Capt. rode down from Sandoway this mg. Cassiagne licked two natives for going forward. reading pacha all day no letter arrived yet since we came up here. rode out in the evening to the Creek back in the direction of Singh Gong & went into the Country. some Buffaloes shewed an

Tandypaura

in heaps & when a breeze springs up the women take it up in dishes & letting it fall from their own height the Chaff is blown away. sometimes a kind of fan is used. the same process is re- peated every day until the paddy is well cleaned & is often exported in the native boats in that form for the Rice Market it much resembles barley. The natives are Mughs or Burmans. there seem to be no Bengalees in the village one or two of the natives speak a little Bengalee. The Men dress with turban with which the hair is rolled up. a white cotton kind of Jacket & a lungy or piece of variously cold. cloth wrapped round the body & coming down as far as the knees. the women have their hair brushd

of[f] their forehead & fastened in a knot behind. Some of then wear a jacket similar to the men but a little longer. they also wear a kind of redecloth round the breast & a lungy [struck through: coming] wrapped round the body from the middle to the feet. the Burmans are all tat[to]oed from the loins to the knees. they resemble the Chinese in casr of feature but are much darker. the nose is short & flat the face broad chin narrow & the inner margin of the Conjunctiva drawn down as the Chinamans. they have no cast & will eat pork or drink grog. They are Bhuddists & a pagoda is generally found erected on the prominent hill they are generally kindly in their disposition unless badly treated Small houses are erected on all the pathways at intervals in

Todypaura

are also in great abundance they paddle about the river in small canoes the women having also a fair share in the paddling

Saturday Jany. 15th. 1859.

got up at 1/2 past 6 this mg. took a ride out. returned on bd. dressed between 8 & 9. The Capt. Major Verner & Beddy came on bd. Beddy asked us to a picnic which they had come down to keep the tent was pitched about 2 miles from the ship by the side of the Creek with the broken bridge The Comr. & I went in the jolly boat the Capt. Beddy & Dibbs in a canoe Capt. & Beddy bathed in the Creek when we arrived had breakfast between 11 & 12. smoked a cheroot & read an article in Chambers journal played a hand at Whist Comr. for a partner against the Capt. & Dibbs had tiffin about 4 came outside the