6/57 There was, too, no scarcity of villages, only the huts, which were mostly built of straw and palm-leaves, were small and wretched. The appearance of the steamer soon collected all the inhabitants, who left their fields and huts and greeted it with loud huzzas. This evening we struck, for the first time, on a sandbank. It cost us some trouble before we could get off again. We had entered the Ganges yesterday. |