Dutt, Romesh Chunder: The literature of Bengal: being an attempt to trace the progress of the national mind in its various aspects, as reflected in the nation’s literature from the earliest times to the present day ; with copious extracts from the best writers (Calcutta, 1877)

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Kanha^a, Dhuligrani, Angarpur and Ghatkan and oj;ber
places^the merchant comes into \he land of the Firingis
(Portuguese) whom the poet has spoken of in very un-
complimentary language. After this the merchant must
come out into the open sea, and the poet's notions of
Geography becomes somewhat hazy; for h'e makes his>%
hero pass first through a sea of prawns and lobsters, then
through a sea of crabs, then through one of snakes,
then of alligators, then of cowries, then of conches!
Anyhow the merchant at last manages to some to §>etu-
bandha and thence to Ceylon. In the adjacent seas,
Dhanapati sees, through the deception of Chandi, a mar-
vellous sight, viz., that of a damsel of superb beauty
sitting on a lotus and swallowing.elephants! He narrates
this story to the King of Ceylon who tak^s him to be a
liar and an impostor, and imprisons him, and so ends his
t adventure. ,

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