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!8 NARRATIVE DURING A TOUR
If it be of any other kind ; 1 hope it may be
corrected, until every Briton with Shakespeare
shall exclaim, " I dare do all that may become
a man—who dares do more, is none." The
splash of oars announces the approach of a
boat, big as a mountain, a servant says, and
ends by hoping that God will convey it in safe-
ty to Calcutta. He amused me by asking the
boatmen why they sung in such a place as this
is. The Serang, who, the first day, had thought
proper to take offence at discovering his boat to
have been polluted by the presence of a ham—
here condescended to favour me with his com-
pany. It proceeded I fancy frommy havinggiven
an order, of which he approved, to transfer se-
veral boxes to the Bhalum, and the honour was
ofHciously repeated to introduce a poor wretch
who had followed me from the Calcutta Bazar,
and made himself useful in procuring a Bhalum,
in the hope of obtaining a passage to Chateegaon,
his natal land—and here, through the media-
tion of the Serang, represented that the Bhalum
Manjee, had, in times past, defrauded him ; he,
having paid the said Manjee four rupees; one
for feeding him and three for getting him ser-
vice. The plaintiff, how ever, acquiesced in the
defendant's declaration of his having expended
two rupees, eight annas for feeding him, and of
having received one rupee, eight annas for get-
If it be of any other kind ; 1 hope it may be
corrected, until every Briton with Shakespeare
shall exclaim, " I dare do all that may become
a man—who dares do more, is none." The
splash of oars announces the approach of a
boat, big as a mountain, a servant says, and
ends by hoping that God will convey it in safe-
ty to Calcutta. He amused me by asking the
boatmen why they sung in such a place as this
is. The Serang, who, the first day, had thought
proper to take offence at discovering his boat to
have been polluted by the presence of a ham—
here condescended to favour me with his com-
pany. It proceeded I fancy frommy havinggiven
an order, of which he approved, to transfer se-
veral boxes to the Bhalum, and the honour was
ofHciously repeated to introduce a poor wretch
who had followed me from the Calcutta Bazar,
and made himself useful in procuring a Bhalum,
in the hope of obtaining a passage to Chateegaon,
his natal land—and here, through the media-
tion of the Serang, represented that the Bhalum
Manjee, had, in times past, defrauded him ; he,
having paid the said Manjee four rupees; one
for feeding him and three for getting him ser-
vice. The plaintiff, how ever, acquiesced in the
defendant's declaration of his having expended
two rupees, eight annas for feeding him, and of
having received one rupee, eight annas for get-