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Sun, Dec.6 From Buxar we jugged on (officer in the luncheon car) to Dehea. There we got back to our carriages. I instructed my bearer as to what to pack and what I wanted in my hoversack. We have just left ??? where the men were instructed to put one hut. In about 40 minutes we should be at Dinapore. The country today has been rather greener and there have been more signs of the handiwork of the irrigation engineer than before. Also ??? instead of ??? the plains as they did yesterday have been in larger plantations. On the whole it looks for more inviting here than anything we have passed excepting perhaps ???. Dinapore is thus descented in that I.R. guide. Dinapore. 3 HH mules from Calcutta, elevation 186 ft above sea level. The military H.Q. of the Patnat District. Pop: 40,984 including that of the Cantonments which are 3 1/2 m from the Railway Station. They extend along the R. bank of the Ganges and the HQ of c Bn of British Royalty, one regt of India infentry and a battery of RFA are quartered here. The whole battalian disembarked, or rather detrained, and we proceed to get a meal. The issue was about the worst arranged thing I have ever struck in my life. I believe it was managed by Regulars. About 7.30 the Dum Dum people returned to their train and Hamshire officer informed us that the only people at Dum Dum are the major i/c and the adjt. who will be Thompson. How he and Mouty will get on

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