Many, too, began to move and throw off their winding- sheets.

I was informed that the natives prefer sleeping in this manner before the houses to sleeping inside of them.
The Calanyganga, an important river, is traversed by a long floating bridge; the road then branches off more and more from the sea-coast, and the character of the scenery changes.

The traveller now meets with large plains covered with fine plantations of rice, the green and juicy appearance of which reminded me of our own young wheat when it first shoots up in spring.

The forests were composed of mere leaved wood, the palms becoming at every step more rare; one or two might sometimes be seen, here and there, towering aloft like giants, and shading everything around.

I can imagine nothing more lovely than the sight of the delicate creepers attached to the tall stems of these palms and twining up to their very crests.
After we had gone about sixteen miles, the country began to assume a more hilly aspect, and we were soon surrounded by mountains on every side.