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THE ENGLISH SECURE TRADE- RIGHTS IN ORISSA 239 export, free of customs, at any port of Orissa, and to purchase ground, erect factories, and build or repair ships. We had now, by the circuit of the Indian coast, re-entered the provinces of the Moghul Empire, and there was no question of fortifications, as on the unset- tled seaboard of Southern India. All disputes were to ■ . ^£vW H B»wV ^B^&S^MmjMm «,v' 1 ■**BBmt~s>~' ■u£ gi ^H^mSi^msa^ NATIVE BOATS ON THS GANGES IN BENGAL. be brought before the governor in person and decided by him in open durbar, " because the English may have no wrong (behaving themselves as merchants ought to do)." Next day the governor feasted the Englishmen and sent them contented away. They built a house of busi- ness at Hariharpur, on a channel half-way down the delta, and, as they fondly hoped, beyond the malaria