after and guiding them. 'On the 8th and 9th the heavy rains begin, thermometer eighty-two, the river enormously wide' writes Lady Amherst. Fresh and new as the sights are to the travellers, it seems needless to recapitulate the items of temples, villages, and mango groves by which they pass, and which Lady Amherst enumerates. Sometimes they land, to the surprise of the villagers, and take walks upon the banks. They are exposed to some danger from the sudden storms which now begin to overtake them on their way. It is not until the 20th that they arrive at Barrackpur on their return journey to Calcutta.
In August, 1825, Lady Amherst had an attack of cholera. She ia evidently a person of admirable nerve. She makes little of her own illness and goes on keeping her diary notwithstanding. On the 18th she writes:—
'This dreadful scourge still rages at Calcutta, and its environs, and Barrackpur. Dead bodies lie in heaps by the river-side. At Achipur the same disease extends, notwithstanding a grand sacrifice by the Hindus of a live buffalo, a goat, and a dog.'
It was certainly a melancholy season. As the result of the cholera Lady Amherst records the satís close to Calcutta and the 'murders,' as she says,
'One can give no other appellation. Along the river the poor creatures are brought screaming that they are not dying, but the Brahmans are inflexible and suffocate them with mud.'
There is a pleasing account of a Burmese princess,
